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Electric Viola

Victor A. Pfeil American, born Germany
ca. 1932
Not on view
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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Object Information
  • 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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