Hardanger Fiddle
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This hardanger fiddle was made by an unknown maker in Telemark, Norway, about 1890. It is made of a two-piece table of cedar, one-piece back of slab-cut birch with broad irregular figure descending to the left, ribs of plain birch, neck of plain birch is terminated in an ornamental pegbox and stylized carved dragon head, ink representation of decorative purfling, and transparent yellow varnish.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This instrument with four bowed and four sympathetic strings is generally in a very good state of preservation, with the original neck, tailpiece, pegs and interior body features intact. The fingerboard and tailpiece are decorated <i>en suite</i> with circular bone inlay forming diamond patterns.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Norway: Telemark
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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 Mary E. Maxwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.380456
label: catalog number
content: 380456
label: accession number
content: 153000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hardanger fiddle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (inlay material)
label: Physical Description
content: cedar (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: birch (back, ribs, neck material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 59.69 cm x 19.685 cm x 9.8425 cm