violin

photo: Waldemar Kielichowski © Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw

Excerpt from the film Zapisane w terenie... [Written Down In the Field], produced as part of the project "Międzypokoleniowa sztafeta folkowa. Badania terenowe" [Intergenerational Folk Relay. Field Studies], Franciszek Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów, 2016
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: Charchut Franciszek
Date: 1950
Village / Town: Zagorzyce
Region: Subcarpathia
Country: Poland
Owner: Franciszek Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów
Inventory number: MRE 3622a
Description: modeled on professional violins; back plate and ribs hollowed in a monolith; front plate cracked along its entire length; strings fixed to crooked nails
Decoration: body, neck and pegbox painted brown, fingerboard and tailpiece painted black
Measurements: 610 x 35 mm
Materials: wood (linden, pine, beech, plum, pear), metal, intestine
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, g – d1 – a1 – e2
Performance practice: basic component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Jolanta Pękacz / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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