złóbcoki (fiddle)

Local name: złóbcoki (carved fiddle)
Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
Maker: Blaszak Wojciech
Date: 1950 (61?)
Village / Town: Chochołów
Region: Carpathian area (Podhale)
Country: Poland
Owner: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Inventory number: PME 42995/1-3
Description: back plate, ribs, neck and pegbox carved from one piece of wood; polygonal body, back and top arched and profiled; double purfling drawn with a ballpoint pen, four strings; a cross bracket fixed to the lower body’s end to facilitate holding the instrument
Decoration: tailpiece and bracket carved
Measurements: 602 x 104 x 47 mm
Materials: wood, metal
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, g – d' – a' – e''
Performance practice: not a very loud instrument, used in the Podhale region before the violin became popular there; nowadays used in the folk revival
Catalog card by: Teresa Lewińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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