Lidový houslař Martin Kuča ze Strážnice (1888–1967)

• Authors: Höhn Jiri

Title variants

EN

FOLK VIOLIN-MAKER MARTIN KUCA FROM STRAZNICE /1888 - 1967/

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The essay, which speaks about folk violin-makers, tries to create a certain model for the approach to that specific part of Czech music culture. Such a model is based on the thorough organological analysis of maintained instruments made by one of the producers. Martin Kuca from Straznice, a farmer and wine-grower, who made his music instruments just for laughs, has been chosen as an example. Three of the safeguarded instruments made by him are a part of collections at the National Institute of Folk Culture in Straznice (violin, viola and baset/violoncello); the other instruments are owned by his family. Purity in workmanship of his string instruments and their carefully worked construction bear witness to quite high level of folk violin making in Moravia and hopefully refute deep-routed theses on imperfection of musical instruments made by folk producers. The instruments themselves as well as the condition of aids (moulds) and tools used by violin maker Martin Kuca show, inter alia, the carefully worked-out technological procedures.

Keywords

EN

FOLK CULTURE; HANDICRAFT; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; STRAZNICE; VIOLIN MAKING

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 205-211
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Höhn Jiri

• Jiri Höhn, Narodni ustav lidove kultury, Zamek 672, 696 62 Straznice, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA09825