中提琴 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	中提琴
品名（英）	Viola d'Amore
入馆年号	2008年，2008.1
策展部门	乐器（Musical Instruments）
创作者	Giovanni Grancino【1637 至 1709】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1701
创作地区	意大利, 米兰（Italy, Milan）
分类	合唱歌手卢特鞠躬（Chordophone-Lute-bowed-fretted）
尺寸	高: 23 1/2 英寸 (59.7 厘米) 宽: 8 1/2 英寸 (21.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	这种乐器可能代表了中提琴的早期形式，它已经用金属弦串起来了，但还没有用同情的弦串起来。早期中提琴最古老的书面证据是英国日记作家约翰·伊夫林的一句话，他在1679年称之为一种新乐器，由五根金属弦串起来，声音"甜美"。早期的中提琴在形式、琴弦数量和调音方面都没有标准化格兰奇诺的工作室中还保留了另外三种相同花彩形状的乐器（其他三种分别位于伦敦的米兰和南达科他州的维尔米利翁）。这些乐器中的每一种都有不同的尺寸和不同数量的琴弦。唯一一种有原琴颈的乐器有四根琴弦，另外两根有五根。根据Andrew Dipper的说法，大都会博物馆收藏的这件乐器是人体的原件。虽然Dipper被用作四弦中提琴，但他修复了这件乐器（约2000年），其中包括重新打开钉孔，并用六根弦将其固定起来。格兰奇诺经常被认为是克雷莫纳以外他那一代最著名的制造商。
介绍（英）	The instrument may represent the early form of the viola d’amore, which was strung already with metal strings but not yet with sympathetic strings. The oldest written evidence for the early viola d’amore is a remark by the English diarist John Evelyn, who in 1679 called it a new instrument, strung with five metal strings and “sweet” in its sound. The early viola d’amore was not standardized in form or in number of strings and tuning. Three other instruments of the same festoon shape survive from Grancino's workshop (the other three are in Milan, London, and Vermillion, South Dakota). Each of these instruments survives in a somwhat different size and has a different number of strings. The only instrument with its original neck has four strings and two others have five. According to Andrew Dipper, the instrument in The Met's collection is original to the body. Although used as a viola with four strings, Dipper restored the instrument (ca. 2000) which included reopening the peg holes and set it up with six strings. Grancino is often considered the most renowned maker of his generation outside Cremona.