Robert Loska
Robert Loska
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: Robert Wojciech Loska
Date: 2001
Town: Gliwice
Country: Poland
Owner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Collection of Violins
Inventory number: KIL-245
Provenance: made for the 2001 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań, bought on 24 Sept. 2001
Description: two-piece belly from spruce with clear, wide grain, two-piece back from flame maple; varnish in yellow-brown shades
Inscriptions: printed label feat. Robert Loska / Gliwice / anno (2001) / [a drawing of a violin head]
Measurements: body length 352.5 mm, upper bout 167 mm, lower bout 204 mm
Materials: spruce, sycamore
Prizes: reached the third stage of the 2001 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań, while another of his violins (KIL-249) was awarded Third Prize at the same Competition
Catalog card: based on the Union of Polish Artist Violin Makers’ documentation
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