ID: 700000312 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000312	Record Type: Movable Work
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"The Gould" Violin (viol$00in; Antonio Stradavari (Italian, 1644-1737); restored by luthie...; 1693, restored in 1975; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 55.86 a-c)

Note: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted. Has a two-piece maple back with a tight flame and a two-piece spruce top with an orange-brown varnish. Although modern performers continue to use seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stringed instruments by great makers, nearly all of the instruments have been modified in order to remain useful as performance spaces grew larger and repertoire pushed instruments to create louder sound over an extended range. In 1975, The Metropolitan Museum had the luthier Frederick J. Lindeman of Amsterdam modify "The Gould" so that it would be in a Baroque configuration. he patterned the fingerboard and tailpiece after surviving original examples on the 1690 "Tuscan-Medici" Strad housed at the Accademia in Florence. Lindeman also fashioned a shorter neck and bassbar and fitted the instrument with a new soundpost, bridge, and pegs, as well as stringing it in gut. "The Gould" is the only violin by the famed master that has been returned to a Baroque setup and that is regularly used for performance of period repertoire.

Titles:

"The Gould" Violin (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,P)

Violin (C,U,D,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

violín [300042215] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones, lutelike chordophones, lutelike chordophones: bowed, fiddles, violin family instruments)

Classifications:

music / musical instruments (preferred)

Creation Date: 1693, restored in 1975

Creator Display:

Antonio Stradavari (Italian, 1644-1737); restored by luthier Frederick J. Lindeman of Amsterdam in 1975 [preferred,VP]

musical instrument maker Stradivari, Antonio (Italian musical instrument maker, 1644-1737) Extent: primary work [500079466]

luthier Lindeman, Frederick J. (Dutch luthier, 1932-2017) Extent: restoration [500450261]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 55.86 a-c

Credit Line: Gift of George Gould, 1955

Creation: Cremona [7005868] Cremona province (province), Lombardy (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Maple, spruce, ebony

	maple (wood) [300012236]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	spruce (wood) [300012726]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, softwood)

	ebony (wood) [300012055]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

Dimensions: 19.7 x 59 cm (7 3/4 x 23 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Baroque [300021147] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred,isness)

Specific Subjects:

	music (performing arts genre) [300054146]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for performing arts>) (AAT)

Provenance: George Gould

Marks: (label pasted inside body) Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis/Faciebat Anno 1693.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
"The Gould" Violin	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 12 March 2018
Violin	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 30 April 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 12 March 2018, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/55.86a-c/