Gemünder Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1881
name: label: maker
content: Gemunder, George
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by George Gemünder in Astoria (Queens), New York in 1881. As Gemünder's business flourished, his popularity and subsequent financial success allowed him to move his shop to Astoria, Long Island in 1874. George Gemünder experimented with wood in search of an “ideal” sound. This violin, in the model of Stradivari, is made of a two-piece table of spruce, a back of American maple in two pieces cut on the quarter with even ascending medium-fine figure, ribs of similar American maple, a grafted maple neck with original American maple pegbox and scroll, and transparent reddish-orange varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Astoria
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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 Mr. Earl W. Dorfman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0205.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0205.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0205
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 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 60.325 cm x 20.955 cm x 8.89 cm