Unique Carved/etched Violin very unique

[Aewqainc]

Hi all

i have got in this very unique and interesting 4/4 violin, it’s etched all over and is very different to violins I have had in.

 

just wondering if anyone knew anything about this instrument as it was found in a bone yard clearance 

 

[Rue]

Looks like someone used it as an art project...as in 'found art' perhaps.

[PaganiniGuitar]

The worst case of antiqueing a violin or this was used in some horrendous cult ritual (I see faces in the lower bout), and now you resurrected this from the grave, now the curse is on you!

Serious who would do that to an instrument?

 

[PaganiniGuitar]

2 minutes ago, Rue said:

Looks like someone used it as an art project...as in 'found art' perhaps.

That’s what I thought also but the spooky story sounds better.

[Aewqainc]

Yeah it’s pretty scary and weird, never seen something like this, I restore violins but not sure I want to do this one! 
but to be fair it doesn’t have a crack or split, even though it looks like this! will put up pictures when it’s done as needs fingerboard and fully set up.

 

 

[Rue]

It also could have been used as a prop for a spooky movie, or play at some point.

As to who would do such a thing?  Likely the same sort of people who would do this :

 

http://charlottesvilleschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Painted-Violins-1.jpg

[stringcheese]

No, those are waaay better. Honestly it looks like a low end trade violin that wasn't worth much before it was butchered.

[MeyerFittings]

1 hour ago, Rue said:

Looks like someone used it as an art project...as in 'found art' perhaps.

 

“Find the Pope in the Pizza” on Vimeo.html

[MeyerFittings]

24 minutes ago, MeyerFittings said:

 

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[jezzupe]

every time he scored a kill he put another notch in the fiddle 

[PaganiniGuitar]

1 hour ago, Aewqainc said:

Yeah it’s pretty scary and weird, never seen something like this, I restore violins but not sure I want to do this one! 
but to be fair it doesn’t have a crack or split, even though it looks like this! will put up pictures when it’s done as needs fingerboard and fully set up.

 

 

In Jewish religion they have what’s called the dybbuk where an item captures an evil spirit. There is an interesting violin piece devoted to this ritual.

Safari - Jul 28, 2021 at 4:08 PM.pdf

[Violadamore]

47 minutes ago, jezzupe said:

every time he scored a kill he put another notch in the fiddle 

It almost looks like a duelist used it for parrying.   Did Jim Bowie play the fiddle?     

[Marty Kasprzyk]

I believe this violin might have been made by the well respected Australian violin maker Peter Goodfellow.  He shows how he carves his violin plates in the Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2n1W5THyGQ

[Ron1]

This is unmistakably a David Burgess violin.  It's just that he didn't get to put the finishing touches on it after hoggin'

 it out with his sawzall.

[Brad Dorsey]

The word "distressed" first came to my mind, but I think "tortured" is more appropriate.

[David Burgess]

On 7/28/2021 at 8:01 PM, Ron1 said:

This is unmistakably a David Burgess violin.  It's just that he didn't get to put the finishing touches on it after hoggin' it out with his sawzall.

This is known as Hoggus Interruptus.