Michał Różak
Michał Różak
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: Michał Różak
Date: 2009
Town: Kościelisko
Country: Poland
Owner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Collection of Violins
Inventory number: KIL-268
Provenance: bought on 27 Nov. 2009
Description: designed by the maker based on a classic A. Stradivari’s model; two-piece spruce belly, one-piece sycamore back; sycamore sides and scroll; oil-based varnish in golden-orange shades
Inscriptions: handwritten label reading MICHAŁ RÓŻAK / KOŚCIELISKO 2009
Measurements: body length 355 mm, upper bout 168 mm, middle bout 109 mm, lower bout 208 mm, total length 603 mm
Materials: spruce, sycamore
Prizes: first prize at the 2009 W. Kamiński Nationwide Violin Making Competition in Poznań
Catalog card: based on the Union of Polish Artist Violin Makers’ documentation
<< Back