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DescriptionAlexander Violin (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg |
English: Bowed zither with sixteen wire strings passing over individual moveable wood bridges arranged on a diagonal line over the curved belly; the body trapezoidal in outline and half-circular in cross-section, being a longitudinal half section of a tapering hollow cylinder of pine; the strings pass over wire nuts atop raised wood bands at each end, and hitch to nails on the smaller end and to small pierced iron tuning pins on the larger end; also on the larger end, a tuned hickory handle, and a smaller handle protruding from the back; two soundholes (straight slots terminating in round holes) on the belly; beneath the strings at the larger end, a strip of paper numbering and naming each string diatonically C to D of the second octave above (bass string is C number 1, highest string is D number 16). Played with a common painted violin bow. |
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Source | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503631 |
Author | The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 |
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A photograph of an 'Alexander Violin', a late 19th century American bowed zither.
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