Josef Vavra

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: Josef Vávra

Date: 1957

Town: Luby

Country: Czech Republic

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

Inventory number: KIL-15, identification no. MKiS XV-C-15

Provenance: made for the 1957 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań; obtained after the Competition

Description: Guarneri del Gesù model; two-piece spruce belly with even graining, one-piece flame maple back; varnish in light orange shades; for solo and ensemble performance; corrected by A. Karolkowski 1961, maintained by J. Karoń 1967

Inscriptions: typewritten label in a frame, reading: VÁVRA JOSEF / houslař / Luby – 19(57); stamped above the label: JOSEF VAVRA / HOUSLAR

Measurements: body length 360 mm, upper bout 171 mm, middle bout 113 mm, lower bout 211 mm, total length 598 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: Second Prize (no First Prize awarded) at the 1957 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań (equal with René Quenoil, KIL-14)

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

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