Is this a Stroh violin?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:56 pm

eBay Item #171381105531

Seller says.."Interesting violin , sounds like a gramophone".

barnettrp21122 · Post by **barnettrp21122** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:25 pm

Interesting, though to me it looks like something just cobbled together. The electrician's tape holding the horn doesn't look too classy.
Bob

De Soto Frank · Post by **De Soto Frank** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:01 pm

Crude home-made attempt at one.

Original "Stroh" violins have a horn that looks more like a Bettini cylinder horn, if I remember correctly...

Also, the bridge on a Stroh violin rests on the diaphragm of the "sound-box", kind of like the bridge resting on head of a banjo ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh_violin

The thing on e-Bay looks more like the Romanian "horn-violin"... a Balkan cousin of the Stroh violin.

Curt A · Post by **Curt A** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:59 pm

It is definitely NOT a Stroh violin... but appears to be made while under the influence of Stroh's...

Post by **alang** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:01 pm

...and if not under influence of Stroh's beer, then maybe with help from Austrian Stroh Rum

Henry · Post by **Henry** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:47 am

For more images of Stroh-type violins, check this out: http://preview.tinyurl.com/lkcgan4

De Soto Frank · Post by **De Soto Frank** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:39 pm

By the way, picking-up on a term from one of the Edisonic threads, as for tone-quality, the Stroh violin tends to be "honky"...

Henry · Post by **Henry** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:49 pm

Stroh's beer was pretty good. Too bad we can't gather round the old gramophonobonium and hoist a couple, but Stroh's went belly up (pun intended) back in the '90s IIRC. Their former brewery near Allentown, originally a Schaefer brewery, now brews Sam Adams. In between, Pabst and Smirnoff Ice were produced there.

De Soto Frank · Post by **De Soto Frank** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:39 pm

Or we could have enjoyed a schooner of Ortlieb's...

Henry · Post by **Henry** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:50 am

Anyone for Kaier's?

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