Mute violin
Date1850-1900 ca.
Place MadeEngland, Europe
Modelnone
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionBody: one-piece pine or spruce: anchor-shaped outline with handrest for upper playing positions; center hollowed; flat back surface, arched top surface
Head and neck: plain maple; taken from early 19th-century English Violin
Varnish: uneven, dark brown stain; red-brown varnish on scroll, overvarnished with dark brown stain
Fingerboard: ebony
Nut: none on Violin: see accessories
Tailpiece: ebony, early 19th-century; tailgut passes through holes drilled in face; saddle carved rather than inlaid
Tailgut: red gut
Pegs: one ebony with convex head and small, flush bone eye, early 19th-century; one ebony; one ebony with missing eye; one black-stained pearwood
Saddle: none
Endpin: ebony
DimensionsTotal mute Violin length: 584 mm
Back length: 352 mm
Upper bout width: 93 mm
Center bout width: 40 mm
Lower bout width: 148 mm
Upper rib height: 37 mm
Center rib height: 59 mm
Lower rib height: 35 mm
Stop length: 192 mm
Vibrating string length: 335 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 134 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesLarson, André P. Amadeus: His Music and the Instruments of Eighteenth-century Vienna, exhibition catalog, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, February 4-March 2, 1990 (Vermillion: The Shrine to Music Museum, 1990), p. 25.
Larson, André P. “Black Hills Exhibit Smashing Success, Sets Record,” Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 17, No. 3 (April 1990), pp. 3.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01300
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