António Capela

Instrument: violin

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 with a bow

Violin maker: António Capela

Date: 1969

Town: Anta

Country: Portugal

Owner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage's Collection of Violins

Inventory number: KIL-82, identification no. MKiS XVc-82

Provenance: made for the 1972 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań; acquired on 14 May 1972

Description: classic model similar to A. Stradivari’s instruments; two-piece bearclaw spruce belly, two-piece sycamore back; high quality tonewood; soft, thinly applied varnish in orange shades; rosewood pegs, ebony fingerboard and tailpiece

Inscriptions: handwritten calligraphic label in ornamental frame reading: ANTONIO CAPELA ANTENSE / ESPINHO PORTVGAL / FACIEBAT ANNO 19(69) / (António Capela) / [on the right, the symbol of a heart with a cross and the initials ACE]

Measurements: body length 355 mm, upper bout 168 mm, middle bout 111.5 mm, lower bout 207 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: Third Prize at the 1972 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań; Fourth Prize for another violin (KIL-84) at the same Competition

Catalog card: based on the Union of Polish Artist Violin Makers’ documentation

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