Vega Baritone Ukulele
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This ukulele was made by The Vega Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1950s. It is a Baritone Ukulele, Arthur Godfrey Model, Serial #6322, 4 course (4 x 1), with a mahogany body, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, nickel silver frets, pearl position dots, and metal friction tuners. There is a printed label inside the instrument:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The<br>Arthur Godfrey<br>6322 Baritone Ukelele<br>Created and Designed<br>by EDDIE CONNORS<br>THE VEGA CO.<br>BOSTON 16, Mass.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>As described in a Vega brochure from 1951:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>”Arthur Godfrey uses this Baritone Ukulele on his famous radio and television shows and recommends it as the finest of all ukuleles. This ukulele with its extra large body and longer finger-board is not only easier to play but produces a big tone of enhanced mellowness and rich musical quality.”</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Arthur Godfrey (1903-1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who popularized the baritone ukulele in the 1950s. Godfrey was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum in Cranston, Rhode Island, in 2001.</p>
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition
content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Adam Gallan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0055.05
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0055.05
label: accession number
content: 1987.0055
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ukulele
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in x 10 in x 3 1/8 in; 73.66 cm x 25.4 cm x 7.9375 cm