Various stages in violin manufacture - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 37802 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 208.00 PINACEAE Picea abies | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Various stages in violin manufacture | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Various stages in violin manufacture | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Various stages in violin manufactureUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Farrell & Co, violin makers | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Series of specimens showing the construction of a handmade violin on the Italian system. Front plate of spruce P.abies, showing three stages in carving. Finished violin ready for stringing. Ribs of Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum. Linings of sp, ruce, Picea abies. The purfling three stages in the manufacture of the bass-bar section cut front hole in one operation ribs, blocks and linings assembled. Various stages in the manufacture of a violin bow. Tools and mother-of-pearl inlay for bow manufact, ure. Four stages in the manufacture of a violin fingerboard of ebony D.ebenum. Four corner blocks, four larger corner blocks. Various stages in the manufacture of an ebony violin bow frog. Various stages in the manufacture of the neck and scroll body of v, iolin, front plate of spruce, back plate of sugar maple, ready for glueing together. Body and scroll of a violin ready for joining. End blocks of spruce P.abies. Three stages in the manufacture of an ebony violin nut.Two stages in the manufacture of an eb, ony violin end pin. Various stages in the manufacture of a maple violin bridge. Four stages in the manufacture of an ebony violin tail-piece. Three stages in the manufacture of an ebony violin saddle. Various stages in the manufacture of ebony violin pegs, . Three back plates in process of being carved.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AIn display 'Kew in the city' at Wizadry in Wood, Carpenters' Hall, Trogmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, Oct 12-15, 2016 (curated collection of wooden objects and rare timbers from EBC) | ||||
| Determinations: | 51.03 ACERACEAE Acer saccharum 102.00 EBENACEAE Diospyros ebenum 208.00 PINACEAE Picea abies (L.) H. Karst | ||||