Schulz Violin
date: label: Date made
content: 1954
name: label: maker
content: Schulz, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Carl Schulz in Bismark, North Dakota in 1954. Carl Schulz was born in Germany in 1878, trained as a professional trumpet player and performed in New York under Walter Damrosch
label: Description
content: and John Philip Sousa. He later turned to farming, moving to North Dakota in 1921. After retirement in 1945 he became interested in violin making, and by 1956 had completed 18 violins and one cello, all of imported European wood. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, one-piece back of maple with fine horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple, moderately figured maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and a bright transparent orange-red varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: North Dakota, Bismarck
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Violins
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Emilie Schulz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.79.04
label: catalog number
content: 79.04
label: accession number
content: 1978.2376
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 8 3/8 in x 3 in; 59.69 cm x 21.2725 cm x 7.62 cm