violin

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

Excerpt from the film Siła tradycji [The Power of Tradition], produced as part of the project "Muzyczny folklor Podkarpacia - badania terenowe" [The Musical Folklore of Subcarpathia - Field Studies], Franciszek Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów, 2014
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: Unknown
Region: Subcarpathia
Country: Poland
Owner: Franciszek Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów
Inventory number: MRE (Ciasnocha)
Description: modelled on classical violins; front plate decorated with purfling
Decoration: resonance box, neck, scroll stained brown; fingerboard, tailpiece, pegs, and end button painted black
Materials: wood (spruce, sycamore), metal
Inscriptions: printed label in a frame, reading: Ferdynand Ciasnocha / Korekta i naprawa inst. Muzycznych / Łaka k. Rzeszowa
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, g – d1 – a1 – e2
Performance practice: basic component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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