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Geography/Place

• • Musical Instrument, Europe
• • Musical Instrument, Europe, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia

Material and Technique

• • Bone
• • Shell
• • Wood, Musical Instrument
• • Wood, Inlaid
• • Wood, Birch
• • Wood, Pine

Object

• • Musical Instrument
• • Musical Instrument, Stringed

Technical Glossary

• • Birch
• • bone
• • Inlay
• • lignum vitae
• • mother–of–pearl
• • Pine
• • Wood

"Isak N. Botnen/Skår and Trond Isaksen Flatebø: Hardanger Fiddle (46.34.7a)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/10/eue/ho_46.34.7a.htm (October 2006)

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Hardanger Fiddle, 1756
Isak N. Botnen/Skår (Norwegian, 1669–1759) and Trond Isaksen Flatebø (Norwegian, 1713–1772)
Pine, birch, and other woods, bone, lignum vitae and mother-of-pearl inlay; 22 3/16 x 7 1/4 in. (56.4 x 18.4 cm); Body L. 13 1/4 in. (33.6 cm)
Gift of Miss Alice Getty, 1946 (46.34.7)