Rebec
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This rebec was made by an unknown maker, provenance unknown, probably 19th century. It is a composite instrument with a one-piece table of poplar, body, neck and pegbox carved from one piece of similar poplar. The wood is not varnished but finished with a colored penetrating oil. </p>
label: Description
content: <p>This instrument appears to be a crude copy of a rebec in the style of catalog #095310. It does not appear to have ever functioned as a playing object. Acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095309
label: accession number
content: 26256
label: catalog number
content: 95309
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rebec
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: poplar (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gut (strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 23 5/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 11.1125 cm x 60.0075 cm x 13.6525 cm