Aeolian Harp
date: label: date made
content: mid-1960s
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This Aeolian harp was made in the mid-1960s by Dennis Durogi in Carlinville, Illinois, mid-1960s. It is made of wood with dove-tail joinery, six f-shaped and 12 round sound holes, and 3 sets of 2 small connected sound holes, and 9 wood friction tuning pegs.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Dennis David Durogi (1935-2017) was an artist and teacher of fine arts at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois and SUNY Freedonia in New York. After his retirement he became a master craftsman and luthier, making mountain and hammered dulcimers and psalteries.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Collector Anne Grimes noted about Derogi, “ ... very successful instrument maker. But expensive.” In a letter to Mrs. Grimes, Durogi said, “I’m sending the wind harp today. I’ve been waiting for a good wind so I could test it. A very stiff breeze is needed. All the strings should be tuned to the same note, usually low G. The different harmonic overtones are produced by the wind striking the various thicknesses of strings at different angles and at varying pressures. The harp is usually placed under a slightly opened window sash.”</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: Illinois, Carlinville
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0276.37
label: accession number
content: 1996.0276
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0276.37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: aeolian harp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/16 in x 8 1/16 in x 21 1/2 in; 8.73125 cm x 20.47875 cm x 54.61 cm