Gemünder Violin
Gemünder Violin
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- Description
- This violin was made by George Gemünder in Astoria (Queens), New York in 1881. As Gemünder's business flourished, his popularity and subsequent financial success allowed him to move his shop to Astoria, Long Island in 1874. George Gemünder experimented with wood in search of an “ideal” sound. This violin, in the model of Stradivari, is made of a two-piece table of spruce, a back of American maple in two pieces cut on the quarter with even ascending medium-fine figure, ribs of similar American maple, a grafted maple neck with original American maple pegbox and scroll, and transparent reddish-orange varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- violin
- date made
- 1881
- maker
- Gemunder, George
- Place Made
- United States: New York, Queens, Astoria
- Physical Description
- spruce (table material)
- maple (back material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 60.325 cm x 20.955 cm x 8.89 cm
- ID Number
- 1983.0205.01
- catalog number
- 1983.0205.01
- accession number
- 1983.0205
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Earl W. Dorfman
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Violins
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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