Taschengeige
Alternate name(s)
- Dancing master's fiddle
- Kit
- Pochette
Date1650-1800 ca.
Place MadeGermany
Place MadeAustria-Hungary, Europe
Modelnone
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionThis boat-shape pochette is made from less expensive materials and is of cruder workmanship than others in the NMM's collections. It could have been made by the player himself rather than a professional.
Top: one-piece, quarter-cut softwood: very wide grain
Back, sides, neck, and head: one piece plain maple; head terminates in snarling animal
Purfling: none
Varnish: brown stain
Fingerboard: brown-stained maple with faint, narrow curl; wedge-shaped; notch and thinning at neck neel position
Nut: bone
Tailpiece: brown-stained poplar or willow; undulating upper edge; tailgut passes through hole drilled in face
Tailgut: plain gut
Pegs: four boxwood with undercut heads
Saddle: bone
Endpin: integral with body
Soundholes: elongated c-shape
DimensionsTotal taschengeige length: 466 mm
Top length: 269 mm
Top width: 26-28 mm
Rib height: 11-26 mm
Stop length: 180 mm
Vibrating string length: 267 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 88 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1979 from Wurlitzer-Bruck, New York, New York.
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 53.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1979
Object number02538
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