violin

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: Woźniak Marcin
Date: ca 1937
Village / Town: Studzieniec
Region: Greater Poland
Country: Poland
Owner: Ethnographic Museum, department of the National Museum in Poznań
Inventory number: MNP E 743/1-2
Description:

back plate, ribs, neck and pegbox carved from one piece of wood; fingerboard and both plates flat; simplified scroll; f-holes without crosswise cuts; no purfling; four strings

Measurements: length 610 mm
Materials: pinewood, metal, catgut
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, g – d' – a' – e''
Performance practice: basic component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Aneta Skibińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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