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Violin bow
stick: pernambuco, first quarter octagonally cut, then round, to an unlined hatchet-shaped head; lapped with (modern) leather; frog: unlined, with no slide or ferrule; screw: iron; eye: brass; adjuster: ivory, an elongated facetted knob; length 735, hair 629, diameter at frog 8.0, diameter at head 5.0, weight 60.6 gr.
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1755–65 - Maker:
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Royal Northern College of Music - Inventory number:
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England
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- Decorative elements:frog carved to shape of lyre, with strings incised at each end, with inscription on each flank
- Inscriptions:stick unsigned; frog engraved on left flank: ARIA BUFFA / (three lines of music in A major 4/4, 14 bars) / Del Sig: A (?) Domenico Cimarosa|on right flank: (continued from other flank, three lines of music, 14 bars ) / IN NAPOLI
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- Repository:Royal Northern College of Music