Website link Online list of Instruments

Located on the campus of the University of South Dakota.

Instruments on display include:

• The King Violoncello by Andrea Amati, after 1538
• The Harrison Violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1693
• King Charles IV Violin Bow attributed to Stradivari Workshop, 1700
• Violin by Matthäs Ignatz Brandstätter, Vienna, 1824
• Three Bows by Tourte l’aîné and François Xavier Tourte (Tourte le jeune)
• Violin by Chanot & Lété Workshop, Paris, ca. 1819
• Violin by Chanot & Lété Workshop , Paris, 1819
• Violoncello by Chanot & Lété Workshop, Paris, 1819-1820
• Three Bows by Knopf, Gaulard, and Voirin
• Violin by Johann Georg Stauffer, Vienna, December 1826
• Violin by Johann Gottlob Ficker, Neukirchen, Saxony, 1810
• Violin by Chanot & Lété Workshop, Paris, ca. 1819
• Violin by Matthaeus Ignatius Brandstaetter, Vienna, 1824
• Ornately Decorated Violin Attributed to Honoré Derazey, ca. 1850-1870
• Stelzner System Viola Made in Richard Weichold/August Paulus workshop, Dresden, April 1893
• Lyre-guitar by Francois Roudhloff, Paris, ca. 1810
• Violin zither (bowed zither) by Franz Schwarzer workshop, Washington, 1909
• Pochette (Dancing Master’s Fiddle) attributed to Bohemia, ca. 1600-1650
• Violin, Bohemia, ca. 1800
• Violin by Mathias Ptak, Tabor, South Dakota, ca. 1880-1920
• Pochette (Dancing Master’s Fiddle), France, ca. 1650-1675
• Pochette (Ivory and Tortoise-shell), France, ca. 1650-1675
• Pochette, possibly by Jacque Regnau[l]t, Paris, ca. 1650-1675
• Pochette labelled Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, 1671
• Pochette by Mathias Wörle, Augsburg, 1691
• Kit bow attributed to John Dodd, London, ca. 1790-1800
• Kit bow by James Dodd, London, ca. 1800-1815
• Tenor Viola by Jacob Stainer, Absam bei Innsbruck, ca. 1650
• Violin by Jacob Stainer, Absam bei Innsbruck, 1668
• Tenor Viola da Gamba by Gregor Karpp, Königsberg, East Prussia, 1693
• Guitar by Alexander Voboam, Paris, 1670
• English Guitar by Preston, after 1734
• The Harrison Violin by Antonio Stradivari, 1693
• King Charles IV Violin Bow attributed to Stradivari workshop, 1700
• The Rawlins Guitar by Stradivari, 1700
• The Cutler-Challen Choral Mandolino by Stradivari, 1680
• Bass Viola da Gamba by Antonio Stradivari Workshop, ca. 1730 (cello conversion, ca. 1835-1850)
• Lute attributed to Tieffenbrucker Family, Padua, ca. 1600
• Lute Modified by Thomas Edlinger, Prague, 1728
• Guitar attributed to Matteo Sellas, Venice, ca. 1640
• Guitar by Domenico Sellas, Venice, ca. 1670
• Cittern, attributed to Urbino, ca. 1550
• Sixteenth-Century Lira da Braccio
• The King Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, after 1538
• Violin by Andrea Amati, Cremona, ca. 1560
• Viola by Andrea Amati, Cremona, ca. 1560
• Violin by Andrea Amati, Cremona, 1574
• Violin, The King Henry IV, by Antonio and Hieronymus Amati, Cremona, ca. 1595
• Violino Piccolo by Girolamo Amati, Cremona, 1613
• Tenor Viola by Andrea Guarneri, 1664
• Viola by Gasparo Bertolotti da Salo, Brescia, before 1609
• Viola by Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, Milan, 1793
• Violoncello Piccolo by Ferdinando Gagliano, Naples, 1793
• Bass Viola da Gamba by Guidantus, 1728
• Violoncello, The King, by Andrea Amati, Cremona,after 1538
• Violin by Jacob Stainer, Absam bei Innsbruck, 1668
• Violin, The Harrison, by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1693
• Bass Viola da Gamba, Antonio Stradivari Workshop, Cremona, ca. 1730
• Violin by Girolamo Amati, 1604
• Two 19th-century Mute Violins
• Strohviol, Germany, early 20th century
• Ergonomic Viola by David Rivinus, Parrett Mountain, Oregon, 2005

Updated July 2014