Object Details
- Schramm, George
- Description
- This folk fiddle was made by George Schramm around 1850. A true homemade instrument, it is a “Cigar-Box Violin” of trapezoidal outline with small center bouts and crude f-holes. The table and back are flat and bear pastiche-filled channels in imitation of purfling. The pegbox and closed scroll are similarly fanciful in execution. The instrument is accompanied by a cardboard, paper-lined case. This violin is made of a two-piece table of pine, back of plain American sycamore in one piece, ribs of similar sycamore, plain maple neck, elongated pegbox and compact, deeply cut scroll with one volute, and a thick opaque reddish-brown varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1850-1875
- ID Number
- 1981.0530.07
- accession number
- 1981.0530
- catalog number
- 1981.0530.07
- Object Name
- fiddle
- Physical Description
- pine (table material)
- sycamore (back material)
- maple (neck material)
- Measurements
- overall: 25 in x 7 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 63.5 cm x 19.685 cm x 5.715 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_605627
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-0754-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
