violin

Local name: skrzipki
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: Piecha Antoni
Date: 1959
Village / Town: Pewel Wielka
Region: the Carpathian region (Beskid Żywiecki)
Country: Poland
Owner: The Municipal Museum of Żywiec – The Old Castle, Department of Ethnography
Inventory number: MŻ-E/624
Description: folk violin modelled on classical violins
Decoration: sound box stained light brown and lightly varnished; fingerboard, tailpiece and pegs stained black
Materials: wood (spruce, sycamore)
Sound compass, tuning: g – d¹ – a¹ – e²; in bands consisting of violins and bagpipes, the violins were tuned to match the bagpipes' tuning (originally changeable, currently stabilised at F)
Performance practice: key component of folk bands
Catalog card by: The Municipal Museum of Żywiec / Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski


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