Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1790-1810
- ID Number
- MI.76.12
- catalog number
- 76.12
- accession number
- 322697
- Object Name
- violin
- Physical Description
- spruce (table material)
- maple (back material)
- Measurements
- 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
- Place Made
- Germany: Bavaria, Mittenwald
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Violins
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_605540
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-4f1f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
