Old Musical Instruments
Buying-Selling Early Musical Instruments
William Petit 45 Rue Desgranges 93100 Montreuil France Tel : 00.33.(0)1.43.62.75.42 Mob: 06 13 12 43 22 wpetit@sfr.fr
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Saxophones Selmer
Saxophones Adolphe Sax
Flûtes
Woodwind
Brasswind
Mandolins
Strings
Miscellaneous
The kit violin, dancing master's kit, or kit, is a stringed instrument.
It is essentially a very small violin, designed to fit in a pocket the pochette (French for small pocket).
It was used by dance masters in royal courts and other places of nobility, as well as by street musicians up until around the 18th century.
The instrument's body is very small, but its fingerboard is made long relative to the instrument's overall size in order to preserve as much of the instrument's melodic range as possible.
Many violinists in the eighteenth century used kits because of their portability.
The pochette or pocket fiddle was used by dance masters not during the actual dances, although they could be used, but were used when teaching dance to students
