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Viola
The neck was made to the modern standard and has not been altered. The rich transparent red varnish, covering the spruce front and maple back, is well preserved, but repaired pegholes suggest that the instrument has been played extensively.
- Date:
c. 1842 - Maker:
Forster, Simon Andrew - Collection:
Ashmolean Museum - Inventory number:
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London (Timezone: Europe/London)
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- Materials:maple, spruce
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- Inscriptions:inscription/mark: Violincello Maker / No.7 London. S.A.Fr (Printed Original label, numbered and initialled.)|inscription/mark: S. A. Forster / London / no. 7 (Signiture on lower rib)
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:
- Repository:Ashmolean Museum
- Measurements:420 mm of back length; 195.75 mm upper bout (back) width; 134.5 mm middle bout (back) width; 246.25 mm lower bout (back) width; 372 mm string length