Schramm Folk Fiddle
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1875
name: label: maker
content: Schramm, George
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
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
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content: Violins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0530.07
label: accession number
content: 1981.0530
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0530.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fiddle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pine (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: sycamore (back material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (neck material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 7 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 63.5 cm x 19.685 cm x 5.715 cm