7/8-size violin
Alternate name(s)
- Child's violin
Date1880-1900 ca.
Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe
ModelStainer
Serial No.none
SignedBranded on back, below button, the lettering curved downward at each end: StainerMarkingsnone
DescriptionTop: two-piece, quarter-cut spruce: medium grain, broadening toward the flanks
Back: two-piece, quarter-cut maple: narrow curl, descending from center joint
Ribs: quarter-cut maple: plain
Head and neck: maple: faint, narrow curl; inside of pegbox stained black
Arching: full, symmetrical arching rises sharply at edge and flattens out at center
Varnish: dark red, staining varnish; varnish removed from edges
Fingerboard: ebony
Nut: none on violin
Tailpiece: ebony; later maple saddle; saddle does not fully extend to edges
Tailgut: red gut
Pegs: three black-varnished pearwood; one ebony with mother-of-pearl eye
Saddle: ebony
Endpin: black-stained pearwood
F-holes: inside edges stained black
Linings: spruce; overlap lower corner blocks
Corner blocks: spruce hollow lower corner blocks; no upper corner blocks
Bassbar: carved from top; short; low height
Other: circular saw and burn marks visible on inside of ribs; white string tied to soundpost, extending out of f-holes and tied at back of body
DimensionsTotal violin length: 550 mm
Back length: 338 mm
Upper bout width: 151 mm
Center bout width: 97 mm
Lower bout width: 189 mm
Upper rib height: 28-29 mm
Center rib height: 28-29 mm
Lower rib height: 28-29 mm
Stop length: 187 mm
Vibrating string length: 307 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 117 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesNewsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. XV, No. 1 (February 1986), p. 1.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02546
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1891-1910 ca.
1920-1930 ca.