Wojciech Łukasz

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: Wojciech Łukasz

Date: 1996

Town: Warsaw

Country: Poland

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

Inventory number: KIL-211

Provenance: made for the 1996 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań; acquired on 17 June 1996

Description: patterned after a 1715 violin by A. Stradivari; two-piece spruce belly with even, fine graining, flame maple two-piece back; varnish in brown shadows with a light orange hue on a golden primer

Inscriptions: printed label in a frame: WOJCIECH ŁUKASZ / Warszawa 1996

Measurements: body length 359 mm, upper bout 169 mm, lower bout 211 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: reached the finals and ranked 14th best for sound quality at the 1996 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań

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

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