Piotr Kubas

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: Piotr Kubas

Date: 1967

Town: Kraków

Country: Poland

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

Inventory number: KIL-60, identification no. MKiS XVc-60

Provenance: made for the 1967 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań, acquired in Sept. 1967

Description: made after A. Stradivari's model; spruce belly, one-piece flame maple back; varnish in red-brown shades; highest quality tonewood, noble sound, for solo and ensemble performance

Inscriptions: printed label with the silhouette of St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków on the left side and a violin and lyre on the right side, reading: PIOTR KUBAS / (wykonał te skrzypce) / Kraków anno domini 19 (67) / Nr (40); on the left side under the endpin, KIL is burned

Measurements: body length 357 mm, upper bout 168 mm, waist 110 mm, lower bout 210 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: Third Prize at the 1967 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań

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

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