SONG Brand Master carvind back 4×4 strings 16" Viola d'Amore old man neck #12984

Description

SONG Brand Master carvind back 4×4 strings 16" Viola d'Amore old man neck #12984
Quite loud and resonant sound
rich and good bass tone
Beautiful  color
Finest European spruce top
Beautiful
flames maple back
Hand carved with great craftmanship
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Rare SONG Excellent Master 4
×4
strings
16"
viola d'Amore,  It has a very  loud sound and rich tone ,fine workmanship and up to the hammer paint color,very pretty contour. It is the wisest choice for playing and collecting.
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It was made by our master maker Mr Song  and  two of his right-hand students . They have been  to Italy to learn for further education of the technique for making violins
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Finest Spruce Top with the even grain
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Beautiful Flamed maple Back , Neck and Ribs, Natural dried 12 years
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Excellent Condition- no cracks, no repairs, no damage.
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Ebony pegs and chinrest
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Good Bridge
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Free with high quality soft bag
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Free Good Bow
Sizes:
The body length:16"
The tuning from lowest  to top is:
A - d - a - d' - f#' - a' - d"
Notice: The strings of this instrument aren't exact, Since we haven't find the right strings for it, Please put the right strings on it by yourself. please understand.
About the Viola d'Amore:
The majority of violas d'amore have fourteen strings -- seven playing strings and seven additional resonating or sympathetic strings that go through the bridge and between the fingerboard  and neck of the instrument, held by individual pegs in the elongated pegbox. The sympathetic strings are most often tuned to the same pitches as the playing strings. Instruments exist with different combinations of playing strings (four, five, six, and seven) and sympathetic strings (from four up to fourteen).  In Germany, violas d'amore without sympathetic strings existed for a  short time during the early 18th century.
During the Baroque period,  it was common practice to tune the viola d'amore in the key of the individual piece.  Joseph Maier listed 16 different tunings for viola d'amore in his 1732 treatise
Museum musicum.
Vivaldi used the tunings of D major, d minor, A major, a minor and F major in his eight concerti for viola d'amore. By the end of the 18th century, the tuning settled into one tonality, which is the one that is used  today and  most  often for classical, romantic and contemporary pieces.  That tuning, from the lowest seventh string up to the top first string, is:
A - d - a - d' - f#' - a' - d"
The bulk of viola d'amore music during the 18th century was written in scordatura notation, a system by which a violinist could more easily play on a viola d'amore with different tunings other than the standard tuning of a stringed instrument tuned in fifths. The top four strings of the viola d'amore could be tuned to different possible pitches but the written notation would use the open g, d, a, and e strings of the violin for those pitches, so that if the top string were tuned to d", the written note was an e" and it would sound d".  For the lower 3 strings, it was common to have those written in the bass clef, but sounding an octave higher. This system made it feasible for one not used to scordatura tuning to play more easily on the viola d'amore. On the other hand, some composers, such as J.S. Bach and Christoph Graupner did not use scordatura notation at all and so the written notes were those actually that were sounded.
We use EMS, China ’s international expedited shipping service, for the door-to-door shipping.
Song Chung Musical Instrument Co. Ltd., is a family owned and operated company that was established in early 1990s in Hebei Province , China . All our string instruments – violins, violas, cellos and basses are hand-made by Master Song Tieji and his apprentices. We have access to the best wood in China ’s virgin forests that is then naturally dried for five to twenty years. And the spruce top, maple back, sides and the scrolls of all our violins are hand-carved. The Song violins are well received in both China and all over the world. Our violins not only produce rich and magnificent tones but are beautiful in their appereances.
We can also provide customers SONG violins of different grades and different sizes(4 / 4, 3 / 4, 1 / 2……). Order quantities will get the maximize benefits. We also can be customized according to your request production of different styles (including
Guarneri
and
Stradivari
) professional and solo violin. Your 100% satisfaction is our responsibility. SONG high-quality violin factory strict testing has been done, without any adjustment can be performed.
If you aren’t satisfied with it in any way, you can return it to us within three weeks after purchase for 100% refund minus the shipping costs. And we offer you lifetime free repair (shipping cost excluded).