Klarinet Archive - Posting 000401.txt from 2001/01

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Finding Forrester" - Strange String Instrument
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:24:03 -0500

>Sorry for the off-topic post, but I've no luck identifying the violin-like,
>bowed-string instrument with a horn-shaped resonator instead of an hourglass
>soundbox with f-holes. The on-screen time consisted of only two very quick
>cuts of a society orchestra. Can any one help? Never saw anything like it
>before.
>
>Don Gross
>La Canada, California

Haven't seen the movie, but it sounds like you're describing a
Strohviol. Did it look like the one at the top of
http://www.larkinam.com/MenComNet/Business/Retail/LarkNet/BowedInstEur
ope ? Strohviols were invented around 1900 for recording:
apparently, one was loud enough to be heard in a jazz ensemble...

Grant

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