Object Details
- Description
- This violin was made by the Vega Company in Boston, Massachusetts in 1924. The Vega Company was established in Boston in 1899. It is commonly known as an important manufacturer of banjos, but separate departments of the firm also marketed bowed-string and band instruments. The Vega Company was sold to the C. F. Martin guitar company in Nazareth, Pennsylvania in 1970. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two-piece back of quarter cut maple with medium, irregular, descending figure, ribs of similar maple, bird’s-eye maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and reddish-orange varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Vega Co.
- Date made
- 1924
- Physical Description
- spruce (table material)
- maple (back material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 7/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 60.6425 cm x 20.6375 cm x 8.89 cm
- Object Name
- violin
