HORNIMAN MUSEUM:

Holdings of Bowed Fiddles – 2009

 

Imzad, spike fiddle, and bow

Ahaggaren Tuareg people

Aurès Mountains, Algeria, probably middle of 20^th century

1971.1161.1 & 2

 

Ghichak spike fiddle, and bow

Usta Abdurasul,

Tashkent, Uzbekistan, c.1985

M621&a-1996

 

Kit, fiddle

Possibly English, 18^th century

15.10.48/8

 

Rebec, fiddle and bow

Arnold Dolmetsch,

Haslemere, Surrey, 1934

M44-1983

 

Crwth, bowed lyre

Arnold Dolmetsch

Haslemere, Surrey,1934

M63-1981

 

Bass viol

George Miller,

London, 1669

M50-1983

           

Pardessus de viole

Louis Guersan, Paris, 1763

M85-1983

 

‘Bass viol ’, tin violoncello

Member of the Hills family,

Caterham, Surrey, late 18^th century

Played in St. Lawrence’s Church, Caterham

*2001.429.1

 

Spike Fiddle

Hausa people, Nigeria, c.1950

*15.6.55/35

 

Violin

Made by (Giacinto) Giovanni Battista Ruggieri,

Cremona, Italy, 1706.

M31-1993

 

Violin bow

Made by W.E. Hill & Sons,

London, c.1950

M32-1993

 

Goge, spike fiddle and bow 

Nigeria, mid-20^th century.

1974.299

 

Joze, spike fiddle and bow

Muhammed Fadel, Baghdad, Iraq, 1987

M17-1987

 

Rebāb esh-sha'er  ‘poet’s fiddle’

Turkey, 19^th century

24.8.56/140

 

Sihu, spike fiddle and bow

China, probably 19^th century.

1975.510

 

Endingidi, spike fiddle and bow

Ganda (Baganda) people, Kampala area, Uganda, before 1974

1974.140

 

Morin huur, spike fiddle and bow

Ulan Baataar, Mongolia, c. 1960

Royal Loan

MT66-1995

 

Sō sām sāi, spike fiddle and bow

Thailand, before c.1950

25.4.52/3

 

Erhu, spike fiddle and bow

Beijing, China, c. 1970

1975.42 1975.42a

 

Sārangī and bow

North India, c.1970

M8-1988

 

Sārangī

Mysore, South India, before 1898

3928

 

Cikārā and bow

Lucknow, India, c.1870

28.4.56/144&a

 

Rebab & bow

Morocco, mid 19^th century

28.4.56/274

 

Cikārā, fiddle

India, probably 19^th century

MT30-1995

 

Kit

Ascribed to Matthias Hummel, Germany, c.1645

15.10.48/1

 

Kémentzès or líra and bow

Thessaloniki, Greece, c. 1955

MT481 & a-1998

 

Black Sea 22.32fiddle

Bolshoy Kavkaz, (Caucasus) region, probably Georgia, 19^th century

28.4.56/219

 

Violin

Pesaro School, Italy, 17^th century

M986

 

Pardessus de viole

Benoist Fleury, Paris c. 1770

15.10.48/21

 

Bass viol

Barak Norman, London, 1713

M60-1983

 

Viola d'amore

Johann Ulrich Eberle, Prague, 1755

15.10.48/23

 

Fiddle and bow

Madagascar, date unknown

3.2.60/9

 

Träskofīol, clog fiddle

Made by Eric Blomqvist of Ballingstöv, from a clog belonging to Johannes Nilsson of Hörrod, Sweden, probably 19^th century

MT68-1995

 

Vielle à roue,  hurdy gurdy

Pajeot jeune, Jenzat, Allier departement, France, c. 1870

3870

 

Nyckelharpa and bow

Sweden, before 1882

24.8.56/236