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The dance master violin, French Pochette, is a violin with strongly reduced corpus. The musical instrument of dance masters of the 17th and 18th century brought one of his smallness forth correspondingly thin sound.

The narrow shape of the violin allowed the dance teachers to play a melody and simultaneously demonstrate the to-learn dance steps. The then 35 to 40 centimeters long violins were borne in elongated pockets sewn in the skirt lap.

From well-known violin makers such as Stradivari and Lupot known models that a small violin body with a long neck ( fretboard) have.

The Pochette originally had three, since the 18th century four fifths in certain strings. It consists of a spatula-shaped piece of wood, the thinner upper part forms the neck with the fingerboard and the vertebrae, while the body is made of hollowed-out walnut and represents the soundboard, which is closed by a blanket.

For the nobility particularly complex specimens were prepared. So was owned by the " Grand Dauphin " A pochette with ivory bow. For other instruments bottom, neck, fingerboard and bow were made ​​from elaborately decorated with silver wire inlaid tortoiseshell.

The glory of the world famous Swiss clown Grock was based in part on a number with a real Dutch miniature violin from the 18th century.

By increasing the ceiling to the size of a normal violin ceiling while the board violin, a child's toy.