Tiebel-Violine

Alternate name(s)

Violin

Date1925-1930 ca.

Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe

ModelStroh

Serial No.none

SignedStamped on diaphragm frame: Tiebel-Violine / D.R.W.Z. No 355993
Markingsnone
DescriptionViolin with alternative sound production, the string vibrations amplified by an aluminum diaphragm rather than a traditional hollow, wooden body, the vibrations transferred from the bridge to an aluminum brace and arm (resting on a grooved ebony block glued to wooden body), through a short spruce soundpost, to a slightly cone-shaped diaphragm with corrugated edges, set into an aluminum frame (screwed to wooden body), the resulting amplified sound directed through two bells, the smaller bell emerging from the base of the larger, the aim of both bells adjustable; a small, spun aluminum bell with a rounded, doubled rim, directed toward the Player, and a larger spun aluminum bell with a doubled rim, directed outward, the lower end curved to join the diaphragm.

Body: tapered, trapezoidal plain maple body with rounded edges; aluminum brace at upper rib position to aid shifting location
Back: thick rosewood partial back at chinrest position; slightly overhanging; rounded edges
Rib: thick ebony partial lower rib at chinrest and endpin positions; lower below tailgut; rounded edges
Head and neck: maple: faint medium curl; button part of neck; dove-tailed into body; varnish removed from neck after application
Varnish: medium red-brown
Fingerboard: ebony; edge finished with same varnish as body
Nut: ebony
Tailpiece: black; tulip-shaped
Tailgut: red gut
Pegs: four ebony
Saddle: none
Endpin: ebony
DimensionsBody length: 365 mm
Smaller bell diameter: 57 mm
Total violin length: 601 mm
Larger bell diameter: 167 mm
Body width upper side: 28-31 mm
Vibrating diaphragm diameter: 110 mm
Body with lower side: 16-18 mm
Stop length: 203 mm
Body height at neck: 37 mm
Vibrating string length: 333 mm
Body height at endpin: 24 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 127 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published References“Everything But A Strad,” Sunday World-Herald Magazine of the Midlands, (July 20, 1969). Shows Arne B. Larson playing NMM 2885. See Publicity Archive, Vol. I, p. 10.

Pilling, Julian. "Fiddles with Horns," Galpin Society Journal 28 (April 1975): 86-92.

Clements, Cary. “Augustus Stroh and the Famous Stroh Violin,” Experimental Musical Instruments 10, No. 4 (June 1995): 1, 8-15.

André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 11.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number02885

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