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Photo: Jon Magnusson
Violin built by Hans Severin Nyberg in Örkelljunga 1760. Instead of a scroll the instrument has a mans head which seems to have a black lion's mane which make it looks a little like Elvis Presley. There are preserved instruments built by Nyberg with a lion head and I can imagine that when carving a mans head he chose a "hair" style that he was familiar with. This violin is kept att the Swedish Museum of Performing arts (formerly known as Stockholm music museum) to which it was transferred from Nordiska museet in the early parts of the last century. The bridge is missing but the instrument has tailpiece and quite thick gut strings which might be similar to the original strings. and the fingerboard is glued to the neck and it has probably never been removable. This instrument might not have its sympathetic strings attached to pins close to the end pin. There are some kind of horisontal metal wire there but the function is unknown and the saddle does not seem made for sympathetic strings. The instrument might instead have its sympathetic strings attached to the tailpiece.
Hans Severin Nyborg
Hans Severin Nyborg was almost completely unknown until recently but new information has been extracted from the church records of Örkelljunga. Nyborgs brother in law was Carl Johan Broberg, a well known luthier in Gothenburg and Nyborg was most likely an apprentice in the Mothe workshop in Ängelholm 1759-1765. There are three preserved double-deckers made by Nyborg, one from 1760, one from 1768 and one unsigned. Nyborg was born in Landskrona and died in Örkelljunga in 1774.
Photo: Jon Magnusson
Photo: Jon Magnusson
Photo: Jon Magnusson
Photo: Jon Magnusson
Photo: Jon Magnusson
Photo: Jon Magnusson
Photo: Jon Magnusson
| Name | Elvis |
| Type | Double-decker |
| Luthier | Hans Severin Nyborg |
| Year | 1760 |
| Origin | Örkelljunga, Skåne |
| Found in | Scenkonstmuseet, Stockholm |
| Playing strings | 4 |
| Sympathetic strings | 8 |
| External link | External link |
| Total length | 617 mm |
| Scale length | 303 mm |
| Length of corpus | 350 mm |
| Height | |
| Rib height | 29,5 mm |
| Other instruments built by Hans Severin Nyborg | TuppenGöteborgsfiolen |
| Other instruments with the same number of sympathetic strings | TuppenMunkenHjelmenKarlhamnsfiolenBulanMohteGöteborgsfiolenEdvinSödlingNorbergsfiolenHammerMohte 2JamtlifiolenAntikrundanfiolenAngeredsfiolen |
| Other instruments with a lion head | TuppenKarlhamnsfiolenBulanGöteborgsfiolenEdvinSödlingTielkegamban M2475JamtlifiolenBostongambanKulturenfiolenArwitgamban M285DubbeltulpanenTrippeltulpanenKulturencellonKulturengambanAntikrundanfiolenAngeredsfiolen |