German Violoncello
date: label: Date made
content: 1878 - 1882
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This violoncello, was made in Schönbach, Germany, around 1880. It is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two-piece back of maple with fine, irregular horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple, neck, pegbox and scroll of plain maple with brass machine tuning mechanism, and an opaque orange-brown varnish.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>On page 54 of the 1882 J. Howard Foote musical instrument catalog is the heading: “VIOLONCELLOS, or Bass Viols . . . German manufacture, with patent heads: No. 6013 Best quality very fine model, excellent in every respect, brass patent head ... $24.00 each.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>To give a sense of the Foote sales of bowed string instruments, there are 13 categories of cellos in grades from $10.80 to $55.00 each, while in the larger violin group, 74 grades are listed from $16.00 per dozen to $210.00 for a “Perfect copy of Stradivarius.” Only four viola grades are described under the heading: “VIOLAS. Or Tenor Viols, also called Altos by the French,” from $4.80 to $15.00 each.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Cellos
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055687
label: catalog number
content: 55687
label: accession number
content: 11535
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cello
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (belly material)
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content: maple (back; sides; neck material)
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content: ebony (tail piece; finger board material)
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content: gut (strings material)
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content: wire (strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 17 1/4 in x 49 in; 24.13 cm x 43.815 cm x 124.46 cm