Electric Viola
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)
Artwork Details
- 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
- Object Number: 2003.604.2
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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