Bohemian Violin
date: label: Date made
content: 1775-1785
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made in Bohemia around 1780. It has been extensively repaired and re-varnished but still retains the original maple purfling, spruce corner blocks and shallow linings of willow. The original pear wood scroll with an exaggerated first volute is perhaps the violin’s most interesting feature. This violin is made of a table of two-piece spruce, back of two-piece plain maple, ribs of mildly figured maple, grafted maple neck terminating in a pegbox and scroll of plain pear wood, and an extensively retouched yellow-brown 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: MI.76.13
label: catalog number
content: 76.13
label: accession number
content: 322697
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 59.69 cm x 20.6375 cm x 8.89 cm