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Victor A. Pfeil American, born Germany
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Electric viola made of black-painted wood with conventional neck fitted to the body; the viola has a fingerboard, but is lacking the nut and other fittings. This is an acoustically mute, skeletal instrument devised to transmit the strings' vibrations to an electrical transducer. (J. Kenneth Moore, 2003)
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Title: Electric Viola
Maker:
Victor A. Pfeil (American (born Germany), 1900–1978 New Jersey)
Date: ca. 1932
Geography: United States
Culture: American
Medium: Painted wood
Dimensions:
26 9/16 × 6 1/8 × 3 5/16 in. (67.4 × 15.5 × 8.4 cm)
(Depth without bridge)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Credit Line: Gift of Lubove and LuAnn Schnable, 2003
Accession Number: 2003.604.2
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