Laprevotte Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1834
name: label: maker
content: Laprevotte, Etienne
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Etienne Laprevotte in Paris, France in 1834. Laprevotte was born in Mirecourt at the end of the 18th century and died in Paris in 1856. He was appointed maker to the Duke of Bordeaux and achieved his greatest reputation for beautifully crafted guitars. This violin retains a reset original neck, bassbar and three original pegs. Ii is made of a one-piece table of spruce, one-piece back of slab-cut maple with broad, irregular horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple; moderately deeply figured original (but reset) neck, with pegbox and scroll, and a semitransparent dark reddish-orange varnish
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H. Carrington Bolton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.096610
label: catalog number
content: 96610
label: accession number
content: 31631
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fir (belly material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (tuning pegs material)
label: Physical Description
content: spruce (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 59.69 cm x 18.415 cm x 9.2075 cm