Ward Appalachian Dulcimer
date: label: date made
content: 1935
name: label: maker
content: Ward, M.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This Appalachian dulcimer was made by M. Ward in Tipton, West Virginia, in 1935. It is a double-bout dulcimer made of spruce and black walnut, with bouts hinted at by small indentations on each side of the “waist” of the instrument. The dulcimer has a wood nut and a wood bridge elevated on a wood slab, 17 metal frets, 2 f-shaped sound holes, and a guitar-like head with 6 mechanical side tuners with pearloid tops. There is a typed index card taped to the back of the dulcimer:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>C 17 double bout, Smith E 63, p. 115, 6 of 6 strings<br>fretted on 17 frets, typed label between two S holes<br>"made Sept 9, 1935"<br>A second label is visible that gives<br>the name Tipton W. Va, Made in Tyler Co, W. Va. by Okey<br>Wood who said he made it "around 1920." Unusual<br>design and wide fretboard with mechanical "worm tuners"<br>acquired for the Grimes collection from Wood at his home<br>in Middleport, Meigs Co. Ohio in 1956.<br>Woods used it to accompany his own ballad singing, noting<br>with his stumpy left hand which had been injured while a<br>US WWI soldier. His singing and playing in Anne Grimes<br>tape collection</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Anne Grimes (1912-2004) was an American journalist, musician, and historian of American (particularly Midwestern) folklore. Grimes studied voice and piano at Ohio Wesleyan and initiated graduate studies at Ohio State University. Following her education, Grimes was a music teacher, music and dance critic, and radio host. After WWII, Grimes began collecting and documenting folk songs throughout Ohio, as well as collecting Appalachian dulcimers and zithers. She would continue this work, performing, recording, and lecturing on instruments from her collection throughout the rest of her career.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: West Virginia, Tipton
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Dulcimers
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Smith, L. Allen. Catalogue of Pre-Revival Appalachian Dulcimers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0276.26
label: accession number
content: 1996.0276
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0276.26
label: collector/donor number
content: E63
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dulcimer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black walnut (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 9 7/16 in x 40 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 23.97125 cm x 102.235 cm