Mollenhauer Violin Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: unspecified
content: U.S. Patent Office
label: maker
content: Mollenhauer, Edward R.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This violin was patented by Edward R. Mollenhauer of New York, New York in 1879. This patent violin received U.S. patent number 218,761 on August 19, 1879. The patent describes an improvement to the sonority and power of a violin by “interposing a board at any intermediate point between the belly and back of the instrument, parallel thereto so as to divide the interior into two chambers and providing the said board with sound-post, sound-ports, and bass-bar.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.218761
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 218761
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Violin