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Violin
This instrument was used between 1850 and 1900 at the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Bran End, Stebbing. It is an unsigned violin made with spruce top, and maple back, ribs, neck and scroll. It has four friction ebony pegs with four modern strings attached to a French-style ebony tailpiece. There is a fine tuner for the E string at the tailpiece, and the bridge is also of maple. The fingerboard and nut are probably of ebony. The instrument has an ebony chinrest and a bow, which is probably made of Pernambuco wood. The bow has a silver head plate, an ebony frog with mother-of-pearl inlay and nickel-silver ferrule, horsehair, and a tension screw also of nickel-silver.
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second half of 19th century - Maker:
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Saffron Walden Museum - Inventory number:
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
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- Decorative elements:Mother-of-pearl inlay on the tailpiece.
- Inscriptions:Branded on bridge: [five-pointed star] / AUBERT
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
- Repository:Saffron Walden Museum
- Measurements:Height: 605mm; Width (at lower bout): 202mm; Body height: 354mm; Bow length: 740mm