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: Narrow, tapering case, the back formed of five strips of wood, inlaid with black and white lines. C sound-holes. Tail-piece and finger-board of ebony, inlaid with light lines. Head terminating in a scroll, with four ivory pegs.
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