Object Details
- Description
This hardanger fiddle was made by an unknown maker in Telemark, Norway, about 1890. It is made of a two-piece table of cedar, one-piece back of slab-cut birch with broad irregular figure descending to the left, ribs of plain birch, neck of plain birch is terminated in an ornamental pegbox and stylized carved dragon head, ink representation of decorative purfling, and transparent yellow varnish.
This instrument with four bowed and four sympathetic strings is generally in a very good state of preservation, with the original neck, tailpiece, pegs and interior body features intact. The fingerboard and tailpiece are decorated en suite with circular bone inlay forming diamond patterns.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary E. Maxwell
- ca 1890
- ID Number
- MI.380456
- catalog number
- 380456
- accession number
- 153000
- Object Name
- hardanger fiddle
- Physical Description
- ink (decoration material)
- bone (inlay material)
- cedar (table material)
- birch (back, ribs, neck material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 59.69 cm x 19.685 cm x 9.8425 cm
- Place Made
- Norway: Telemark
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Violins
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_605638
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-472c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
