Weber Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1930
name: label: maker
content: Weber, Robert
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Robert Weber in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1930. Robert Weber was born in Germany in 1865 and was exposed to the craft of woodworking through his father, a carriage maker. He later received formal training in violin making. In 1888 Robert Weber immigrated to the United States, setting up his violin shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he remained until his death in 1947, at the age of 82. A quartet (two violins, one viola, one cello) of his instruments was displayed at the Chicago Exposition of 1893. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce with irregular medium grain broadening toward the flanks, two-piece back of maple cut on the quarter with irregular medium ascending figure, ribs of similar maple, original neck, pegbox and scroll of mild medium figured maple, and a golden orange-brown varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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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 Joseph G. Strawitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1133.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1133.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.1133
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 7/16 in x 8 1/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 59.53125 cm x 20.6375 cm x 9.8425 cm