Dolmetsch Bass Viol Bow
date: label: date made
content: 1966
name: label: maker
content: Arnold Dolmetsch Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bow was made by Arnold Dolmetsch, Ltd. in Haslemere, England, in 1966. It is a bass viol bow, made of a fluted octagonal Pernambuco stick terminating in a pike head, with a plain open frog of ivory with an ivory button. The bow is stamped:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>ARNOLD DOLMETSCH</p>
label: Description
content: <p>(and beneath the frog on the shank):</p>
label: Description
content: <p>1165</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Englishman, Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), was a pioneer in the revival of performances of early music informed by period instruments and scholarship of historical records. A musician and craftsman, Arnold restored old instruments and built new reconstructions of lutes, viols, keyboards, and especially, recorders. In the 1920s he founded a school and workshop in Haslemere, England for the study and re-creation of performances in the period styles of previous centuries. The family workshop became a source of instruments for 20th-century musicians to experience and interpret early music.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This bow was purchased from the firm, Arnold Dolmetsch, Ltd. in 1966.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Haslemere
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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.66.344
label: accession number
content: 272603
label: catalog number
content: 66.344
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pernambuco (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horsehair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/16 in x 1/2 in x 29 11/16 in; 3.65125 cm x 1.27 cm x 75.40625 cm