![Earthenware dish painted with lute player from Cairo, Egypt at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany.](/t/DEB/DEBM1533.JPG) | ![Man with Lute painting by Hans Holbein the Younger at Berlin Gemaldegalerie. Berlin, Germany.](/t/DEB/DEBG1411.JPG) | ![The Lute Player painting by Caravaggio at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY.](/t/USNYC/NYMD5971.JPG) | ![Angel playing lute on corbel in ante-room at Abbotsford House. Melrose, Scotland.](/t/UAM/UABAB182.JPG) |
Earthenware dish painted with lute player (11th-12thC) from Cairo, Egypt at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Man with Lute painting (c1526-7) by Hans Holbein the Younger at Berlin Gemaldegalerie. Berlin, Germany. | The Lute Player painting (c1597) by Caravaggio at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY. | Angel playing lute on corbel in ante-room at Abbotsford House. Melrose, Scotland. |
![Statue of Kaspar Tiefenbrucker most famous European lute maker of 16thC. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT067.JPG) | ![Replica of lute making workshop, Füssen having established first lute maker's guild in Europe, at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT582.JPG) | ![Display of items used for lute making in Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT583.JPG) | ![Tools used for lute & violin making in Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT584.JPG) |
Statue of Kaspar Tiefenbrucker (1514-71) most famous European lute maker of 16thC. Füssen, Germany. | Replica of lute making workshop, Füssen having established first lute maker's guild (1562) in Europe, at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Display of items used for lute making in Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Tools used for lute & violin making in Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. |
![French lute & case by Wolfgang Wolf of Füssen at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT585.JPG) | ![Lute by brothers Giovanni & Basillio Smit at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT587.JPG) | ![Lutes & cases by several makers at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT589.JPG) | ![Renaissance era bass lute signed on a printed piece of paper, Magno Stegher, at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT591.JPG) |
French lute & case (1646) by Wolfgang Wolf of Füssen at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Lute (17thC) by brothers Giovanni & Basillio Smit at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Lutes & cases by several makers at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Renaissance era bass lute (c1600) signed on a printed piece of paper, Magno Stegher, at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. |
![Lute display at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT596.JPG) | ![Moose-like beast & violin player on Cathedral. Reims, France.](/t/F/FRIM22.JPG) | ![Beast-like gargoyle & violin player on Reims Cathedral. Reims, France.](/t/FWB/FRIMC027.JPG) | ![Violin playing angel statue by Lorenz Luidl from Landsberg at Maximilian Museum. Augsburg, Germany.](/t/DYN/DYAMX83.JPG) |
Lute display at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Moose-like beast & violin player on Cathedral. Reims, France. | Beast-like gargoyle & violin player on Reims Cathedral. Reims, France. | Violin playing angel statue (c1690) by Lorenz Luidl from Landsberg at Maximilian Museum. Augsburg, Germany. |
![Boy with Violin painting attrib. to William Morris Hunt at Lyman Allyn Art Museum. New London, CT.](/t/USCTX/CTNM857.JPG) | ![Narrow violins at Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany.](/t/DYM/DYMMD443.JPG) | ![Violin collection at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT597.JPG) | ![Sculpture of Matthias Klotz , a member of family of violin makers which flourished in the town. Mittenwald, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPM64.JPG) |
Boy with Violin painting (before 1879) attrib. to William Morris Hunt at Lyman Allyn Art Museum. New London, CT. | Narrow violins at Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany. | Violin collection at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Sculpture of Matthias Klotz (1653-1748), a member of family of violin makers which flourished in the town. Mittenwald, Germany. |
![Violin & early radio at Foley's Farm at Muckross Traditional Farms in Killarney National Park. Killarney, Ireland.](/t/IER/IEKR833.JPG) | ![Violin & Mandolin at Boott Cotton Mills Boarding House immigrant gallery. Lowell, MA.](/t/USMA/MAEPG105.JPG) | ![Wall panel with costumed monkey playing violin framed in garland of flowers in Monkey salon at Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild. Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, France.](/t/FY/FVNFR243.JPG) | ![Violinist & Young Woman painting by Edgar Degas at Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI.](/t/USMI/MIDA1851.JPG) |
Violin & early radio at Foley's Farm at Muckross Traditional Farms in Killarney National Park. Killarney, Ireland. | Violin & Mandolin (c1910) at Boott Cotton Mills Boarding House immigrant gallery. Lowell, MA. | Wall panel with costumed monkey playing violin framed in garland of flowers in Monkey salon at Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild. Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, France. | Violinist & Young Woman painting (1871) by Edgar Degas at Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI. |
![Glass, Violin & Sheet of Music cubist painting by Georges Braque at Ludwig Museum. Köln, Germany.](/t/DER/D0KL1411.JPG) | ![Violin & Grapes painting in cubist style by Pablo Picasso at MoMA. New York, NY.](/t/USNYC/NYMF071.JPG) | ![Music stand for violins quartets in East Room at Eastman House. Rochester, NY.](/t/USNYB/NYRE226.JPG) | ![Commemorative violin made for Centennial of St Louis World's Fair at Missouri History Museum. St Louis, MO.](/t/USMO/MOLH271.JPG) |
Glass, Violin & Sheet of Music cubist painting (1912) by Georges Braque at Ludwig Museum. Köln, Germany. | Violin & Grapes (1912) painting in cubist style by Pablo Picasso at MoMA. New York, NY. | Music stand for violins quartets in East Room at Eastman House. Rochester, NY. | Commemorative violin (2004) made for Centennial of St Louis World's Fair at Missouri History Museum. St Louis, MO. |
![Cello back in memoriam to Titanic orchestra from memorial concert in London at Ulster Transport Museum. Belfast, Northern Ireland.](/t/UIR/UIBTM127.JPG) | ![Zither by Ludwig Resisinger at Czech Cultural Center. Houston, TX.](/t/USTX/TXHMZ023.JPG) | ![Diagonal zither by Carl Ferdinand Haupt from Dresden at Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany.](/t/DYM/DYMMD441.JPG) | ![German zither & pioneer flute at Institute of Texan Cultures. San Antonio, TX.](/t/USTXC/TXAFC132.JPG) |
Cello back in memoriam to Titanic orchestra from memorial concert in London (May 24, 1912) at Ulster Transport Museum. Belfast, Northern Ireland. | Zither (c1850s) by Ludwig Resisinger at Czech Cultural Center. Houston, TX. | Diagonal zither (after 1885) by Carl Ferdinand Haupt from Dresden at Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany. | German zither & pioneer flute at Institute of Texan Cultures. San Antonio, TX. |
![Mills Violano Virtuoso at Revelstoke Nickelodeon Museum. Revelstoke, BC.](/t/CDNBC/BCR037.JPG) | ![Coin-operated Violano-Virtuoso music machine by H.K. Sandell of Chicago, for hotels & restaurants, at Lightner Museum. St Augustine, FL.](/t/USFL/FLAM501.JPG) | ![Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina player piano with automatic violins at Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany.](/t/DYM/DYMMD414.JPG) | ![Orgelleier cranked string instrument with keys by Philibert Luboz of Amsterdam at Bavarian National Museum. Munich, Germany.](/t/DYM/DYMMB353.JPG) |
Mills Violano Virtuoso (1929) at Revelstoke Nickelodeon Museum. Revelstoke, BC. | Coin-operated Violano-Virtuoso music machine (1927) by H.K. Sandell of Chicago, for hotels & restaurants, at Lightner Museum. St Augustine, FL. | Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina player piano with automatic violins at Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany. | Orgelleier cranked string instrument with keys (end 18thC) by Philibert Luboz of Amsterdam at Bavarian National Museum. Munich, Germany. |
![Hurdy Gurdy, a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against strings at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany.](/t/DYP/DYPFT598.JPG) | ![Art Nouveau armoire for string quartet instruments by Alexandre Louis-Marie Charpentier of Paris at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France.](/t/FPM/FPMDA652.JPG) |
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Hurdy Gurdy, a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against strings at Museum of City of Füssen in Kloster St Mang. Füssen, Germany. | Art Nouveau armoire for string quartet instruments (c1901) by Alexandre Louis-Marie Charpentier of Paris at Museum of Decorative Arts. Paris, France. |
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