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eBay Item #171381105531

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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"...

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.

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

Anyone for Kaier's?