Field guide No. 920
Straight strings, warped violin
The strings stay straight; the body doesn't
A violin bows into a long, uneven wave while its strings remain taut. The instrument has developed stage fright in a very specific direction.
Field noteA violin’s body bends into a wave while its strings stay straight. The instrument has divided the difference.
- Specimen
- No. 920
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A woodworker’s bench.
- Nearest existing relative
- A violin.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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