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Albert "Concert" Violin

Albert "Concert" Violin

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Description (Brief)
This violin was made by John Albert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876. Albert, born in Freiburg, Germany, was a lawyer and an amateur violin maker who immigrated to America in 1848. He settled in Philadelphia and quickly established an excellent reputation as a violin maker. This Albert "Concert Violin" was a prize-winning entry at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. John Albert died in 1887 after a long collaboration with his son, E. J. Albert. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, back of North American maple cut on the slab with strong, irregular, horizontal figure, ribs of similar North American maple, mildly figured maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and a semi-transparent reddish-brown varnish.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
violin
date made
1876
maker
Albert, John
Place Made
United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description
spruce (table material)
maple (back material)
Measurements
overall: 23 3/4 in x 8 in x 3 1/2 in; 60.325 cm x 20.32 cm x 8.89 cm
ID Number
1981.0781.01
accession number
1981.0781
catalog number
1981.0781.01
Credit Line
Gift of Frances F. Wilkins
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
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I have a graduated and improved EJ Albert 1916 with a lions head. I used hide glue to make some repairs and made a nut out of a piano key from the turn of a century piano key. Robbed a tailppiece from a violin adjusted the gut way out and its the best violin or fiddle because that's me. Does anyone else have a lions head e j albert?

David Eric Kane

Thu, 2018-03-22 09:58

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"Is there anyway to distinguish between a John Albert violin and those of his sons? Thank you, Samantha "

Samantha Storm

Mon, 2016-01-25 02:10

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