Hiroshi Kikuta

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: Hiroshi Kikuta

Date: 2006

Town: Cremona

Country: Italy

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

Inventory number: KIL-262, identification no. 262

Provenance: made for the 2006 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań; acquired on 16 June 2006

Description: the maker’s own model patterned after classic A. Stradivari instruments; two-piece spruce belly with even, one-millimetre wide graining, two-piece flame maple back; varnish in brown shades with light red hue on a yellow primer; for solo performance

Inscriptions: printed label with decorative f-holes and palmetto patterns, reading: Hiroshi Kikuta / Fatto in Cremona / Anno 20

Measurements: body length 358 mm, upper bout 170 mm, lower bout 210 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: First Prize at the 2006 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań

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

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