German Violin
date: label: Date made
content: 1790-1810
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made in Mittenwald, Germany around 1800. It shows evidence of extensive repairs and retouching of the varnish. This violin has a reproduction Sebastian Klotz label and is made of a two-piece table of two-piece spruce, two-piece back of maple with even medium-fine descending figure, ribs of similar maple, grafted maple neck terminated in the original maple pegbox and scroll, and an opaque reddish-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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.76.12
label: catalog number
content: 76.12
label: accession number
content: 322697
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 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 59.69 cm x 20.955 cm x 9.525 cm