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 Apache Fiddler 1885 |
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Arpeggione
As played by Berndt Bohman Swedish Principal Cellist of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (Guitar D’amore, Guitar+Violin_Cello) Made by Osamu Okumura President Arpeggione Society Japan  The Arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba. The
Modern -Arpeggione is a
Bowed
Guitar Loop
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 Artful Violins |
 Rubber Glove Bagpipe Australian Musician Linsey Pollak |
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 Bassotto Italian Luthiers Francesco Arecco and Paolo Raiteri Note that the f holes are in the shape of dachshunds
Foot
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 Benioff Cello The Benioff Violin Digital |
The
Black Stone Violin
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Bohemian Violin Photos Courtesy of Jon C. Mol Melbourne, Australia
Fourteen pegs: seven playable strings and
seven resonating strings
This is probably a 'viola d' amore' - an 18th century south European stringed instrument belonging to the violin family (not viola)
The bow shown is a modern bow and does not
belong with this instrument
Judging from the fact that it has a scroll (and not a finial or stylised head, human or animal) means that the dating is likely late 18th century 
The complex sound holes probably mean that
this instrument is of Bohemian origin
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 Courtesy of John McVey Bottle Bell Shawm Glynn Parry of Bedford Waites Medieval Music Group tests the new Bottle Bell Shawm made after a carving in Beverley Minster Yorkshire. He pronounced the instrument a success and added that it was a "nice instrument." It is in "D" at 430 Hertz. |
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 Cigar Box Fiddle Creole
musician Joseph "Bebe" Carriere of Lawtell, Louisiana, made this fiddle using a
cigar box.  Joseph "Bebe" Carriere of Lawtell, St. Landry Parish Photo: Nicholas R. Spitzer
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 Chinese Erhu - Bowed String Instrument |
 Chocolate Violin Delice Royal Ottawa Ontario |
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 Cigarbox Fiddle The North American Fiddler's Hall of Fame |
 Crocodile Zither Mi gyaun (long zither) Burma, 19th century |
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Salvador Dali's Violin  Ebay |
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Dancing Limberjack
Les
gigueux Martin Zak Old Joe Clark  Limberjack UK, USA, Canada, Australia Chris Harvey's Jig Doll Circus
Jean Ritchie - Skip to my Lou
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 10-String Double Violin Bethanien Kunstlerhaus 1986 Jon Rose Web |
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 Otto Erdesz Violin-Viola Maker with John Newton and Joseph Curtin violin makers he helped at the start of their careers  Cut-Away Viola Allowed much easier access to high positions |
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 Fish Fiddle |
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 "Cornerless" Fiddle  5 String Chinese Viola (recent) in a Baroque "Testore" Style From the Collection of Jim Garber |
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 Sievert Copy by Nick Gent Daventry, UK |
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 Philippe Guillerm
Wood Sculpture - "Love at First Sight "
Walnut, Maple, Mahogany |
 Sculpture & Art by Bruce Gray Distorted Guitar Sculpture "Jimi's Nightmare" |
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 Harp Guitar
The Knutsen Archives
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 H'arpeggione 18-string fretted 'cello/guitar |
 Harp-O-Chord ---------------------------------------------------------------- V68 - A Harp-Built-For-Two
Random Sound Musical Instruments
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 French Hurdy-Gurdy
Helmut Gotschy
Hurdy-gurdy Concert
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 Viola by Carleen Hutchins Montclair, New Jersey 1953 |
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 Hyperviolin ©Photo by Eric Jensen |
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 Icelandic Fidla |
Intonarumori
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Kamancheh Chief Persian Bowed Instrument
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 Aleksander Kolkowski - Portrait in Shellac |
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  Maggini Violin History |
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Manzer Guitars
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 Matchstick Violin Created by Jack Hall Courtesy of his son Tony Hall Additional Photographs
Glen Campbell playing
the Guinness World Record 1937 Matchstick Guitar
followed by public performances by The Matchsticoustic Men YouTube American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter Yehudi Menuhin Page 17 |
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 Mayuri Northern India 19th century This peacock is a bowed, stringed instrument with movable frets, four principal strings, and fifteen sympathetic strings. |
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 Woody McKenzie Appalachian Alien Dulcimer Lap Dulcimer
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©Photo by Lois Siegel Montreal World Film Festival, 2002 Performance by musicians from Inner Mongolia |
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Moodswinger Dutch Craftsman Yuri Landman  |
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 Mouth Bow Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pete Seeger Demonstration How to Play the Mouth Bow Musical Bow |
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 Martine Chiasson Nyckelharpa
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 Pamela's Unusual Violins |
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 Pochette
A dancing master's
kit, made c 1780
Menzies Stringed Instruments  Jeff Menzies Pig Pochette Pochette pocket fiddle |
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 Guy Rabut Violin Maker New York City |
Romanian Artistic Instruments Gliga Violins USA |
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 Shruti Box Sruiti Box C-Octave Shruti and Hang Drum |
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 Courtesy of John McVey Shuttlefiddle John McVey, Felmersham, England, noticed the similarity of pochettes (dancing-master's fiddles) and the shape of a weaving shuttle. His friend, John Westland had a smashed violin in his workshop and a weaving shuttle. John McVey put them together to create a Shuttlefiddle. It sounds just like a violin if used with a pickup and amplifier. |
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 © Keaphoto The Singing Saw |
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Iner Souster Toronto, Canada  Bowafridgeaphone Listen to the Bowafridgeaphone & Bungee Bass  Bungee Cord Bass  The Fat Body Fiddle |
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 Strange Fiddle |
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 Straw Beating aka Fiddlesticks (Chinese Chopsticks) Featuring Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine "Sandy Boys" Straw Beating was found in Colonial America: Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, Tennessee from about 1880 to 1920 Martin Zak & Radek Spindler Tim Eriksen: Fiddlesticks on Mt. Pollux |
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 © Photo Daniel Melander Stumpf Fiddle |
 Three Guitars & a Tractor |
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 Trapezoidal Fiddle Felix Savart 1819 |
 Tromba Marina |
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 Twisted Sisters by Joe Martin
I
have always admired violins that are
One thought was to build a
violin with
While thinking about the possibilities of flip-flopping the directions of the boughts, I came up with the idea of only switching one side. The thought then came to mind, why not dismantle two identical violins and reassemble them with opposite sides. I do not recall ever seeing a violin constructed in such a manor. To me it seems obvious that someone must have thought of or tried this at one time. Basically the design can be drawn using a standard half-violin template without flipping it over to draw the entire violin outline.  Joe Martin
I drew the instruments and found their f-hole configurations to be amusing. One violin would be a left and one a right. I thought one would need to be assembled as a left hand violin. The bridge placement appeared to be a problem; one side would set exactly on top of an f-hole. This wasn't enough to deter me. I proceeded with the experiment.
My first challenge was to
find two violins exactly the same. We carry Samuel Shen instruments at our
shop. I happened to have
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  Vasser Clements' Fiddle |
Viola d'Amour The instruments pictured above were made in 1772 (?) and 1783 by Tomaso (Thomas) Eberle, an Italian maker of Austrian ancestry who is considered a follower of the Gagliano school |
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 Viola di Pardone (Baryton) Essentially, the Baryton is a viola da gamba with six or seven strings but with many thin metal strings running under the fingerboard. These can be plucked with the thumb of the left hand while the other strings are bowed. |
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Violano Virtuoso |
 The Violin Player Leipzig 1912 National Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement "Vioolspeler" Utrecht, Netherlands |
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Washboard
Doug "Little Brother" Jones |
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