Playonair Shoulder Rest
date: label: date made
content: 1975-1985
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This violin/viola shoulder pad was made by Playonair and distributed by Shar Products Company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, around 1975-1985. It is an air cushion style shoulder pad made of plastic, with a blow tube and instruction sheet.</p>
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content: <p>This violin and viola shoulder rest features U.S. Patent 3896694, dated July 29, 1975 by Richard Goldner for a shoulder support for a violin or viola.</p>
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content: <p>This item was sold by Albert Moglie (b. December 16, 1890, Rome; d. June 9, 1988, Washington DC), instrument maker and restorer, and proprietor of a violin shop in Washington DC for 65 years from 1922 until 1987. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to Antonio Sgarbi and subsequently worked under Luigi Enbergher, Giuseppe Rossi and Rodolfo Fredi, all of Rome. Following these apprenticeships, Moglie was a student of Hippolyte Sylvestre in Paris and Leandro Bisiach in Milan.</p>
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content: <p>Albert Moglie came to America at the age of 24 to work for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, first in Cincinnati and then New York City in 1916. By 1917 he had established his own shop in New York at 1431 Broadway. He moved to Washington DC in 1922.</p>
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content: <p>Moglie enjoyed a fine reputation in Washington as a violin restorer, and is especially remembered as the caretaker of the Gertrude Clark Whittall Stradivari quartet of instruments at the Library of Congress, an association that began in the 1930s and lasted more than 50 years.</p>
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content: <p>The Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Archives Center houses additional information on the life and career of Albert F. Moglie:</p>
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content: <p>https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0283</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Albert F. Moglie and Lorette M. Moglie
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3081.005
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3081.005
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content: 2018.3081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shoulder rest
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 14.605 cm x 24.765 cm