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Tenor Violin

1929
Not on view
Played vertically on an adjustable endpin marked "ROHENA"; conventional form using local woods and ebony; two-piece top joined through treble F-hole, two-piece back and matching ribs, grafted scroll with dot eyes, one-strip black purfling front and back, all ebony fittings, inlaid design of black dots in form of a cross in top at lower treble point; three gut and one copper-wound strings.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Tenor Violin
  • Maker: Edward C. Twist
  • Date: 1929
  • Geography: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Woods, gut, copper
  • Dimensions: Total L.:`85.6 cm w/w endpin (33-3/4 in.)
    Body L. 51cm (20-1/8 in.)
    String L. 48.1 cm (19 in.)
    Lower Bouts 30 cm (11-7/8 in.)
    Middle Bouts 15.8 cm ( 6-1/4 in.)
    Upper Bouts 23.9 cm ( 9-7/16 in.)
  • Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
  • Credit Line: Gift of Assunta Dell'Aquila, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.485
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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