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Hardanger Fiddle

Hardanger Fiddle. Culture: Norwegian. Dimensions: Height: 24 7/16 in. (62 cm). Date: 1786. The Hardanger fiddle of western Norway has a violin form but features a fanciful scroll, a highlly decorative fingerboard and tailpiece, ink designs on front and back and sympathetic strings that run through the bridge and under the fingerboard. Isak N. Botnen (1669-1759) and his son Trond Botnen made both standard violins and Hardanger fiddles.
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Title:
Hardanger Fiddle
Caption:
Hardanger Fiddle. Culture: Norwegian. Dimensions: Height: 24 7/16 in. (62 cm). Date: 1786. The Hardanger fiddle of western Norway has a violin form but features a fanciful scroll, a highlly decorative fingerboard and tailpiece, ink designs on front and back and sympathetic strings that run through the bridge and under the fingerboard. Isak N. Botnen (1669-1759) and his son Trond Botnen made both standard violins and Hardanger fiddles.
Technique/material:
Wood, mother-of-pearl, ebony, bone
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
3150 x 4200 px | 37.9 MB
Print size:
26.7 x 35.6 cm | 10.5 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
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