Violin
Date2024-2025
Place MadeOberlin, Ohio, United States, North America
Place MadeSkokie, Illinois, United States, North America
ModelStradivari long pattern
SignedPrinted on paper label, the last two digits of year written in black ink: Antonius Stradiuarius Oberlinſis / Faciebat Anno 2025 [Stradivari monogram] MarkingsWritten in pencil on underside of fingerboard: DiRTY HARRYDescriptionThis violin is a copy of "The Harrison" by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, Italy, 1693, in the collection of the NMM. It was produced by the Oberlin Makers Association, a collaborative project involving many top violin makers from around the world. The project began with a micro-CT scan taken at Cyber Optics in Minneapolis, which was reverse engineered to produce patterns and forms. The violin was started in June 2024 at the two week workshop hosted by the Chicago Violin Making School in Skokie, Illinois, during which the white violin was made. The following year, in June 2025, the freshly varnished violin was taken to Oberlin, Ohio for antiquing with the original present to copy. The Oberlin Makers Association bench copy projects overlap one another by a year, in that a new violin is being made while the antiquing of the previous year's build is occurring. The goal is to make an instrument as close to the present state of the original in terms of design, varnish, and tone. Top: two-piece, quarter-cut spruce: narrow grain; maple pins through both the top and bottom blocks under purfling
Back: two-piece, quarter-cut maple: prominent, medium curl descending slightly from center joint; maple pins through both the top and bottom blocks under purfling; ebony crown over back button
Ribs: quarter-cut maple: prominent medium curl, curl angled slightly to the left; one-piece lower rib
Head and neck: maple: prominent, medium curl
Arching: low
Varnish: medium orange-brown
Fingerboard: ebony
Nut: ebony
Tailpiece: ebony
Pegs: four rosewood pegs with oval low karat red gold pins
Saddle: ebony with ebony wing extending over the top of the ribs
Endpin: medium brown colored wood with ebony pin in center
F-holes: inside edge of f-holes stained black
Linings: willow
Corner blocks: willow
Top block: willow
Bottom block: willow
Bassbar: spruce DimensionsTotal length: 598 mm
Back length: 363 mm
Upper bout width: 161 mm
Center bout width: 110 mm
Lower bout width: 203 mm
Upper rib height: 30-31 mm
Center rib height: 31 mm
Lower rib height: 31 mm
Stop length: 195 mm
Vibrating string length: 328 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 133 mm ProvenancePurchased new from the Oberlin Makers Association, 2025.Published ReferencesGerman, Christopher. "The 2025 VSA / Oberlin Violin Makers Workshop: Copying the 'Harrison'" _The Scroll_ 10, no. 2. (Fall 2025): 22-23.
Credit LinePurchase funds gift of 1st Financial Bank USA and Ken Cancelosi, in memory of Robert Cancelosi, 2025
Object number15929
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