Object Details
- Description
- This violin was made in the United States in the 19th century. It is an instrument of amateur construction with a neck, pegbox and scroll of commercial German origin of the same period. The name “Miles Standish” is scratched into the varnish of the back beneath the button. There is a handwritten label inside the violin that reads “Repaired by I.B. Wilson, Music Dealer and Repairer, Moundsville, W. VA., Sept. 30th, 07 190.” This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, one-piece back of American burl maple cut on the slab, ribs of American maple with even medium-fine figure, neck, pegbox and scroll of faintly figured maple, and a semi-opaque brown varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Merlin Smith
- 1800 - 1899
- ID Number
- MI.394503
- accession number
- 214741
- catalog number
- 394503
- Object Name
- fiddle
- Physical Description
- spruce (table material)
- maple (back material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in x 3 in; 59.69 cm x 17.145 cm x 7.62 cm
- Place Made
- United States
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Violins
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_605634
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-3184-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
