Violin Parts: Museum Object and Cultural History
Violin Parts: Object Name: violin parts. Physical Description: wood (overall material). Measurements: 75.02, each: 13/16 in x 14 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 2.06375 cm x 37.465 cm x 11.1125 cm.
The object in the museum catalogue
Violin wood from the Albert Moglie Shop in Washington DC, from about 1926. This is a collection of violin wood illustrating the procedural steps in the construction of a complete violin “in the white,” prior to the application of varnish. These materials appeared in a violin making exhibit at the Smithsonian in 1973. Albert F. Moglie, born in Rome in 1890, was a violin maker in Washington, D.C.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: violin parts
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Measurements: 75.02, each: 13/16 in x 14 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 2.06375 cm x 37.465 cm x 11.1125 cm
- Measurements: 75.03 rough: 3/8 in x 8 3/16 in x 14 in; .9525 cm x 20.79625 cm x 35.56 cm
- Measurements: 75.03 worked: 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 14 3/8 in; .9525 cm x 20.955 cm x 36.5125 cm
- Measurements: 75.04: 1 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 16.51 cm x 4.1275 cm
- Measurements: 75.05: 1 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in; 3.175 cm x 17.145 cm x 3.96875 cm
- Measurements: 75.06: 1 5/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 1 7/16 in; 3.33375 cm x 9.04875 cm x 3.65125 cm
- Measurements: 75.07: 1 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 7/16 in; 3.175 cm x 9.525 cm x 3.65125 cm
- ID Number: MI.75.02-.26
- accession number: 92339
- catalog number: 75.02-.26
- catalog number: 75.02
- catalog number: 75.03
- catalog number: 75.04
- catalog number: 75.05
- catalog number: 75.06
- Credit Line: Gift of Albert F. Moglie
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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