Object Details
- Gagliano, Ferdinand
- Description
- This violin was made by Ferdinand Gagliano in Naples, Italy around 1780. The violin retains its original, but reset neck. It bears a facsimile Gagliano label inserted by violin maker and restorer, Simone Saconi, in 1961. Ferdinand Gagliano built this instrument in a diminutive “7/8” size, probably like many other small instruments of the 18th century. The violin has an unusually large sound and in the 1950s it was frequently loaned by Rembert Wurlitzer (the New York authority and dealer) for important solo performances by young artists in New York City. Many students of Ivan Galamian played this violin in concert during their youth. The violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, back of maple in one piece with faint horizontal figure prominent on the right side, ribs of similar maple, an original plain maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and golden orange varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1778-1782
- ID Number
- 1979.0172.01
- accession number
- 1979.0172
- catalog number
- 1979.0172.01
- Object Name
- violin
- Physical Description
- spruce (table material)
- maple (back material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 in x 7 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 58.42 cm x 20.0025 cm x 9.8425 cm
- Place Made
- Italy: Campania, Naples
- Related Publication
- George Frideric Handel. Seven Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Violins
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_605486
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-83f3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
