Violin (3/4 size)
date: label: Date made
content: 1898 - 1902
notes: label: Description
content: This three-quarters size violin was made in Mittenwald, Germany around 1900. This is an instrument of commercial Mittenwald manufacture. As the classic tradition of violin-making waned during the first half of the 19th Century, makers like Ludwig Neuner (1840-1897) collaborated with other Mittenwald workmen to meet the demand for new instruments. Neuner, a gifted craftsman who spent six years in Paris working for J. B. Vuillaume, returned to Mittenwald in 1884 and enlarged the commercial firm of Neuner & Hornsteiner. Under his leadership, over 200 employees were used to meet the international demand for commercial as well as finely crafted instruments. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, back of maple in two pieces with mild, irregular horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple, neck, pegbox and scroll of mildly figured maple, and a shaded opaque yellow-brown varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Mittenwald
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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 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.65.0750
label: catalog number
content: 65.0750
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: spruce (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in; 56.515 cm x 17.145 cm x 6.6675 cm
label: Measurements
content: body: 53.3 cm; 20 31/32 in