złóbcoki (fiddle)

Local name: złóbcoki (carved fiddle)
Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
Maker: Zbozień Józef
Date: 1937
Village / Town: Nowy Sącz
Region: Lesser Poland
Country: Poland
Owner: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Inventory number: PME 42996
Description: back plate and ribs carved from one piece of wood; special chinrest (unusual in folk practice, especially in the Carpathian region)
Decoration: plates, particularly the back plate, richly embellished with stylized floral elements (the batik technique); tailpiece with a geometrical inlay
Measurements: 592 x 145 x 45 mm
Materials: wood, metal
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, g – d' – a' – e''
Performance practice: from the collection of Mieczysław Cholewa, well-known regionalist from the area of Nowy Sącz
Catalog card by: Teresa Lewińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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