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Blackbird (violin)
The ''Blackbird'', also called the Black Stone Violin, is a full-size playable violin made of black diabase after drawings by Antonio Stradivari (Stradivarius), but with technical modifications to allow it to be played. The violin was conceived and designed by the Swedish artist Lars Widenfalk. It was named the ''Blackbird'' after the common blackbird (''Turdus merula'') because of its colouring. Stradivari himself often gave his violins names related to birds.〔Yman, Bosse. ''Lars Widenfalk skulptör utan gränser'' Magasinet Herjedalen. Vinter/vår 2012.〕
==Inspiration==
The idea of constructing a musical instrument from stone came when Lars Widenfalk was working on big diabase blocks destined to form part of the artistic embellishment of the Norwegian TV building in Oslo, Norway. These blocks gave off a strikingly beautiful and strong sound during the work with hammer and chisel - it sang like an iron bell. It is also well-known among sculptors and geologists that different rock types have different sounds when being worked.
In 1990 Widenfalk had acquired a small diabase block of highest quality and blackness. It probably came from the quarries of northern Skåne in southern Sweden.〔 It became clear to him that the size was right for an instrument such as a violin. The rock came from his grandfather's tombstone, which had been discarded after a joint family grave had been established.〔Ljungaeus, Diana. 1991. ''Lars byggde en fiol av morfars gravsten.'' (unknown: Swedish newspaper)〕 What made Widenfalk start to work on a violin was the desire to discover how far stone, in this case diabase, could be pushed as an artistic material, and he turned it into the world's first playable stone violin.〔
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