violin

photo: Waldemar Kielichowski © Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw



Zdzisław Marczuk, violin; rec. 2012; IMIT
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: Unknown
Date: 20th c.
Country: Poland
Owner: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Inventory number: PME 40851
Description: instrument modeled on the classical violin; both plates almost flat, f-holes without crosswise cuts, expanded corners, no purfling
Measurements: 610 x 202 x 33 mm
Materials: wood, metal
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, g – d' – a' – e''
Performance practice: basic component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Teresa Lewińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


An old-style oberek; Józef Rosiński (b. 1900, Michowice), violin; rec. Michowice 1977; Sources of Polish Folk Music (Mazovia)


Oberek; Władysław Nadobny (b. 1910, Głogowa), violin; rec. Kazimierz 1986; Sources of Polish Folk Music (Greater Poland)


Oberek; Jan Wiatrowski, violin; rec. Murzynno 1963; Sources of Polish Folk Music (Kuyavia)


Oberek; Zdzisław Marczuk (b. 1943, Zakalinki), violin; rec. Kazimierz 1988; Sources of Polish Folk Music (Podlachia)




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