Shinya Mochizuki

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: Shinya Mochizuki

Date: 1986

Town: Tokyo

Country: Japan

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

Inventory number: KIL-120, identification no. MKiS 120

Provenance: made for the 1986 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań; acquired in 1986

Description: classic model in the maker’s own style; two-piece spruce belly, two-piece sycamore back, head and sides made of flame maple

Inscriptions: handwritten label reading: Shinya Mochizuki / Tokyo Japan / 1986

Measurements: body length 355 mm, upper bout 166 mm, middle bout 113.5 mm, lower bout 206 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: Fourth Prize at the 1986 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań (equal with Junji Matsuoka, Japan)

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

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