Kit

This kit violin is also shaped like a viol. The ribs and one-piece back are made of maple. The back is decorated with a diamond-shaped design of purfling. The back of the scroll is built up with an added section that has been repaired by the insertion of a slip of wood along the upper join. Both of the lower ribs have been extended by small inserts, nailed to the corner blocks. Kit violins went out of fashion in the early nineteenth century, but this one must have remained in long use, as the neck has been tilted to the nineteenth-century standard by the insertion of a new heel.