Grancino Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1710-1730
name: label: maker
content: Grancino, Giovanni
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Giovanni Grancino in Milan, Italy after 1710. This instrument was probably made after 1710 when Grancino frequently abandoned the practice of making violins of large body length (35.5 cm [14"] or larger). In compensation for length, bodies of the later instruments were usually of a broad model with archings reduced in height relative to earlier periods. The back of this example has a broader fuller arching than that of the table, a feature that would provide increased concentration of sound with the newly developed lower strings of gut wound with metal wire. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce with a beautifully even grain, narrowing at the flanks, back of two-piece maple cut on the quarter bearing very mild even medium descending figure, ribs of similar quarter cut maple with mild to faint figure, grafted maple neck terminating in a plain maple pegbox and scroll with deeply cut volutes and medium fine chamfer, and a transparent golden-yellow varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Italy: Lombardy, Milan
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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. Laura E. Patrick
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0976.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0976.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0976
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 7/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 59.53125 cm x 20.0025 cm x 9.8425 cm