Stroh violin
Violinofón
- Date
- 1899 · confidence high
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- John Matthias Augustus Stroh
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A string instrument mechanically amplified by a metal resonator and horn attached to its body, devised to record louder sound on early phonographs.
What it led to
- louder acoustic string recordings before electrical amplification
- variants for viola, cello and other string instruments
- use in early 20th-century recording orchestras
- decline after the arrival of the electric microphone in the 1920s