Object Details
- Description
- This violin was made in Schönbach, Germany, around 1790. The instrument retains the original neck and top block of maple in one piece with a slot in the pegbox to accommodate a nut. The original bass-bar is unusually long. The instrument bears extensive repairs and retouching of the varnish. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two-piece back of maple cut on 45o with even medium-fine gently ascending figure, ribs of similar maple, original top block in one piece with maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and a semi-opaque dark reddish-brown varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1785-1795
- Physical Description
- spruce (table material)
- maple (bacl material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 59.69 cm x 20.955 cm x 6.35 cm
- Object Name
- violin
