Mute Viola

ca. 1800–1889

Not on view

Description: A skeleton body with back and soundboard omitted, the framework in curved outline of the viola. The usual fingerboard with pegbox terminating in a scroll. Five strings fastened to a tailpiece at the bottom of the instrument.

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Title: Mute Viola
Date: ca. 1800–1889
Geography: Italy
Culture: Italian
Medium: Wood, strings
Dimensions: 24.1 × 35.6 cm (9 1/2 in. × 14 in.)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.2721a, b
Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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