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Viola bow
stick: pernambuco, octagonal for more than a quarter of its length, then round with a very slightly 'hatchet'-shaped head, almost modern in style, with a not very pronounced nose, lined and faced with ebony and ivory; frog: yellowed ivory, ornamental; adjuster: ivory, octagonal, rather bigger than usual; length 729, hair 636, diameter at frog 9.0, diameter at head 5.0, weight: 57.3 gr.
- Date:
mid 18th century - Maker:
Dodd [Family] - Collection:
Royal Northern College of Music - Inventory number:
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England
- Culture:
- Period:mid 18th century
- Materials:
- Specific materials/techniques:
- Decorative elements:frog is ornately cut in C-form fore and aft; what remains of it is fluted
- Inscriptions:stamped on each side of the stick: DODD|scratched on flank of frog: barely legible initials 'E.C' or ‘L.C.’|scratched on both sides of frog and stick: 234 xx
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:
- Repository:Royal Northern College of Music