Pochette
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Dancing was an expected aristocratic accomplishment. Instruction was given at home by a visiting dance master, who played a small fiddle to provide music for the lessons. The compact, slender shape of these instruments made them easy to transport and gave them the name pochette, which suggests that they were carried in one's coat pocket.
Description: Boat-shaped case, the fluted back and sides of seven strips of wood, with inlaid ivory lines; below the tailpiece a carved angel's head; light varnish; long C-shaped soundholes; ebony tailpiece inlaid with colored woods; the neck of ebony, similarly inlaid, four strings; pegbox decorated with carving and terminating in a human head.
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