Scroll (music)

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Scroll (music)

A scroll is the decoratively carved beginning of the neck of certain <a href="/en/String_instrument" title="String instrument" class="wl">stringed instruments</a>, mainly members of the <a href="/en/Violin_family" title="Violin family" class="wl">violin family</a>. The scroll is typically carved in the shape of a <a href="/en/Volute" title="Volute" class="wl">volute</a> (a rolled-up spiral) according to a canonical pattern, although some violins are adorned with carved heads, human and animal. The quality of a scroll is one of the things used to judge the <a href="/en/Luthier" title="Luthier" class="wl">luthier</a>'s skill. Instrument scrolls usually approximate a <a href="/en/Logarithmic_spiral" title="Logarithmic spiral" class="wl">logarithmic spiral</a>. Although many references assert that the instrument scroll closely follows the <a href="/en/Golden_spiral" title="Golden spiral" class="wl">golden spiral</a> (a specific form of the logarithmic spiral) this assertion is demonstrably false.<a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a>
<a href="/en/Scrollwork" title="Scrollwork" class="mw-redirect wl">Scrollwork</a> is a common feature of <a href="/en/Baroque" title="Baroque" class="wl">Baroque</a> ornament, the period when string instrument design became essentially fixed. 

<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left wiki-thumb"><a href="/en/File:Stainer-scroll.JPG" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Stainer-scroll.JPG"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Stainer-scroll.JPG/220px-Stainer-scroll.JPG" decoding="async" data-file-width="1212" data-file-height="640" data-file-type="bitmap" height="116" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Stainer-scroll.JPG/330px-Stainer-scroll.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Stainer-scroll.JPG/440px-Stainer-scroll.JPG 2x" alt="Stainer-scroll.JPG"></a><figcaption>Carved lion's head on a Stainer violin</figcaption></figure>
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Below the scroll is a hollowed-out compartment (the <a href="/en/Pegbox" title="Pegbox" class="mw-redirect wl">pegbox</a>) through which the tuning pegs pass. The instrument's strings are wound around these pegs. The scroll and pegbox are almost always carved out of one piece of wood. In addition, the scroll aids in tuning solely with the pegs by providing leverage to push the peg in as it is being wound, preventing it from slipping out.

A scroll is the decoratively carved beginning of the neck of certain stringed instruments, mainly members of the violin family. The scroll is typically carved in the shape of a volute according to a canonical pattern, although some violins are adorned with carved heads, human and animal. The quality of a scroll is one of the things used to judge the luthier's skill.  Instrument scrolls usually approximate a logarithmic spiral.  Although many references assert that the instrument scroll closely follows the golden spiral this assertion is demonstrably false.
Scrollwork is a common feature of Baroque ornament, the period when string instrument design became essentially fixed.  Below the scroll is a hollowed-out compartment through which the tuning pegs pass. The instrument's strings are wound around these pegs. The scroll and pegbox are almost always carved out of one piece of wood. In addition, the scroll aids in tuning solely with the pegs by providing leverage to push the peg in as it is being wound, preventing it from slipping out. 