Hardingfele
Maker
Anders Odegaargen
Date1901
Place MadeDrammen, Norway, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedPrinted (facsimile) on paper label, date written in black ink, visible through treble f-hole: Anders Odegaarden / VIOLIN MAKER / MEDALIE AND DIPLOMA IN DRAMMEN 1901 / [two overlapping medallions] / far 1909Markingsnone
DescriptionStringing: four bowed strings; four sympathetic strings
Top: two-piece, quarter-cut spruce: fine grain broadening toward the flanks
Back: two-piece, semi-slab-cut maple: broad curl
Ribs: quarter-cut maple: very narrow curl
Head and neck: maple: very narrow curl; head terminates in lion-dragon with pointed, mother-of-pearl teeth, protruding tongue, and gold-painted crown and mane
Decoration: floral, foliate, geometric and diamond-pattern inked borders on top, back; foliate and geometric inked borders on pegbox; central inked floral designs on top, back and ribs; two decoratively-turned maple dowels through top above f-holes; ink decoration is under the varnish
Purfling: none
Varnish: medium, red-orange
Fingerboard: spruce with brown-stained pearwood veneer and inlaid mother-of-pearl and white celluloid abstract floral decorative devices, divided by triple-strands of white celluloid; u-shaped; bottom end chamfered and stained black
Nut: ebony, detached; sympathetic string nut: mother-of-pearl
Tailpiece: maple with brown-stained mahogany veneer and inlaid mother-of-pearl and white celluloid abstract floral decorative devices, divided by line-etched bands of abalone; line-etched abalone plate at upper end; festooned outlines at upper and lower ends; tailgut passes through holes drilled in face
Tailgut: steel wire
Pegs: eight adapted commercial violin pegs: two faceted ebony with mother-of-pearl eyes; five faceted black-stained pearwood with mother-of-pearl eyes; one later ebony with mother-of-pearl eye
Saddle: ebony
Endpin: ebony
F-holes: no notches; outside edge chamfered and left unvarnished
Linings: none; ribs set into grooves in the back
Corner blocks: spruce; small
Top block: violin-form
DimensionsTotal hardingfele length: 618 mm
Back length: 357 mm
Upper bout width: 167 mm
Center bout width: 108 mm
Lower bout width: 208 mm
Upper rib height: 30-34 mm
Center rib height: 31-34 mm
Lower rib height: 30-33 mm
Vibrating string length: 299 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 109 mm
Credit LineArne B. Larson Estate
Object number05063
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1891-1910 ca.
