Concerto In Stone

A blackbird

takes flight

with string

and bow.

Beethoven’s

Concerto played

in stone.

©Susie Clevenger

The violin Blackbird.

Credit: Gabriel Urbanek

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 theCommon Blackbird (Turdus merula) because of its colouring. Stradivarius himself often gave his violins names related to birds. 
Wikipedia ~ Blackbird Violin
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