Greffuhle Stradivarius

The Greffuhle Stradivarius violin, on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History.

The Greffuhle Stradivarius is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, around the year 1709. It derives its name from a French nobleman who once owned it.

The Greffuhle is one of the eleven Stradivarius that are decorated with elaborate inlay motif of flowers, vines, and animals, the designs conceived by Stradivari himself. The purfling is a wide band of inlaid ivory diamonds and circles on an ebony background. The violin's top plate is made of two-piece spruce with even medium-to-fine grain broadening toward the sides. The back is one-piece maple with narrow, nearly horizontal flame figure; the ribs are of similar maple. The neck is made of modern maple, terminating in the original pegbox and scroll.

It was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod as part of the Axelrod quartet.

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National Museum of American History

Kevin Lee Luthier

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