Eastern European Violin
date: label: Date made
content: 1700-1799
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made in Eastern Europe in the 18th century by an unknown maker. It has a dark, semi-opaque, reddish-brown/black varnish associated with Romany instruments. The archings are of
label: Description
content: squarish “hour-glass” form with powerful but tasteful edges and roughly wrought purfling. The scroll is spontaneous, in character with the craftsmanship of the body. The ribs are quite high and hastily bent to shape. These f-holes appear similar to classical Bohemian instruments but lack seriously studied symmetry. Over all, the impression of this instrument is not unlike formal Czech- Hungarian workmanship executed with a very free and casual spirit. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce of dissimilar wood with very fine to broad grain, two-piece back of maple cut on the quarter, wholly lacking in figure or strong medallary ray, ribs of similar plain maple, reset original neck of plain maple terminating in a pegbox and closed scroll, three period (original?) pegs of chestnut without figure, and a semi-opaque reddish-brown/black varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Czech Republic: Bohemia
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0031.16
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0031.16
label: accession number
content: 2016.0031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/4 in x 7 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 59.055 cm x 18.0975 cm x 6.985 cm