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[edit]Violin ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Galbuscra |
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Title |
Violin |
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Object type | Classification: 91769 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Violin, dark wood body, usual scroll head, four pegs, four attached strings, usual tailpiece, attached chin rest, inlaid mother of pearl flower, green-red-black scratched ink design, rib is maple, no purfling and no attempt to purfle edge, tail saddle has no parallel ridges below belly 1 guitar-shaped violin Carlo Antonio Galbusera, Leipzig, Germany, 1832 flamed and birds-eye maple, spruce, poplar, ebony, pearl, length of back 351 mm labelled ‘C. A. Galbusera - LEIPZIG, 1832’ 1998.60.123 Castle 189 Carlo Galbusera was an officer in the Italian cavalry. He lived at Milan from 1830 until 1836 where ‘he was known to have constructed several guitar-form violins and some guitars’. At the time his guitar-shaped violin was considered such a success that it was awarded a gold medal by the Academy of Sciences’ exhibition in the Brera Palace, Milan in 1832. ‘It is fashioned in the same lines as a model by the celebrated maker Francois Chanot (1787 - 1828). Chanot had also conceived a guitar-shaped violin that dispensed with corner and blocks entirely. It is unusual in that no attempt was made to purfle the edge and the tail saddle has no parallel ridges below the belly.’ The new form was supposed to minimise the cutting through of the wood fibres. This gain in longer fibres was calculated to increase the vibration power and thus the sound of the violin. François Chanot, a French naval officer, was interested in the same scientific consideration as Savart’s trapezoid violin. ‘Chanot claimed for his violin the merit, therefore, of having more long fibres to produce the low notes, and more short ones to produce the high ones. The bass bar is set, as in Savart’s fiddle, down the exact centre on the join of the belly.’ |
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Date | 1832; 20 Oct 1998; 10 Oct 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
length: 590mm |
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institution QS:P195,Q758657 |
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1998.60.123 |
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Place of creation | Leipzig | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | The Zillah Castle and Ronald Castle Collection of Musical Instruments, (189), collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1998.60.123 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Photo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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