violin

photo: Waldemar Kielichowski © Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw


The Band of Tadeusz Jedynak (Radom area); rec. Andrzej Bieńkowski. Kazimierz 1985; Music Lost & Found
Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
Maker: Rafalski Jan
Date: 1925
Village / Town: Jagodne
Region: Lesser Poland (Świętokrzyskie)
Country: Poland
Owner: Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec
Inventory number: MLIM/MS/1560
Description: back plate, ribs, neck and pegbox carved from one piece of wood; back plate flat, top plate lightly convex
Measurements: 595 x 105-205 x 50 mm
Materials: wood, catgut
Sound compass, tuning: in 5th, g – d' – a' – e''
Performance practice: basic component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Zbigniew J. Przerembski


From Chmielnik; Wojciech Wesołowski (b. 1875, Radlin), violin, Piotr Pietrzaba (b. 1894), double bass; rec. Radlin 1952; Memories of the Past; ISPAN


Mazur from Zagnańsk; Feliks Górzyński (b. 1898), violin, Jan Marcisz (b. 1928), drum; rec. Zagnańsk 1951; Memories of the Past; ISPAN


Bilman the Peasant; The Band from Rudki: Zygmunt Zagórski (b. 1930), violin, Włodzimierz Kępiński (b. 1944), clarinet B-flat, Władysław Bąk (b. 1947), accordion, Józef Kwiecień (b. 1942), accordion, Stanisław Lewiński (b. 1939), drum, Stanisław Ćwik, double bass; rec. Płock 1980; Sources of Polish Folk Music


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