Talk:Stroh violin
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It would be great to include a picture here. The HistoryWired page mentioned in the article has some great pictures, but they may only be used through permission of the Smithsonian. I've gone ahead and asked, since the SI does grant permission for non-commercial use, academic use, etc. Gyrofrog 04:37, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Well, I got the necessary permission and uploaded the file, before I realized that this is insufficient for Wikipedia's copyright policy. Thus I have not added the image to the article. I mentioned this at WP:CP and WP:PUI. - Gyrofrog 17:23, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Recording
Does anyone have a recording of a Stroh violin being played? (Of course, a recording that can be put on Wikipedia) Tmorton 19:20, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Stroh violin is not a Violinofon nor a Phono-fiddle
For starters, a Stroh violin has no wooden soundbox where a Violinofon has. Furthermore the way the sound is transferred to the horn is different. For that reason a phono-fiddle is also not a Stroh violin (in fact they are two different patents). The Stroh violins (and -guitars and -ukeleles) are provided with a drum of which one side is a membrane. Connected with this membrane is an arm that transferres the vibrations from the strings to the drum into the horn. This whole proces is done in a Phonofiddle by means of a (mica) grammophone-element. The needle is replaced by a little rod that transferres the vibrations from the single string to the horn. The sharpwhitted reader has seen that I wrote single string in the last sentence! The confusing thing here is that there are phonofiddles that have the brand-name 'Stroh viols' (no not a mistype). I don't know how the sound is transferred in a Violinofon, but what I can see from photographs it is neither of the above. If I'm able I'll get some pictures here but I'm afraid they're all copyrighted.
Yours faithfully, Harm J. Linsen
