Tyler Appalachian Dulcimer
date: label: date made
content: 1894
name: label: maker
content: Tyler, Arthur D.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This Appalachian dulcimer was made by Arthur D. Tyler in Galloway, Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio in 1894. It is a double-bout dulcimer, with 16 metal frets, 4 sets of three-hole sound holes, carved out pegbox for 3 friction pegs (1 extant), and a violin-like head. There is a typed index card taped to the back of the instrument: </p>
label: Description
content: <p>C 2 E double bouted, Smith E 46 105-106<br>one of 3 string fretted on 16 frets, long shouldered pattern<br>abrupt humpt tuning head, white pine hickory and poplar with<br>tail-piece of cedar, made by Arthur D. Tyler, Galloway,<br>Franklin County, Ohio in 1894 when Tyler was 17 years old.<br>Tyler taped by Anne Grimes (see photos). He made 5 of the<br>instruments he called dulcerines in one year, modeled after<br>one belonging to an itinerant farm worker and peddler who<br>was originally from McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio.<br>For many years Tyler never heard another dulcimer or any<br>other players, only saw a similar one in 1919 at the<br> Methodist Centenary Celebration held at the state fair<br>grounds as part of a mountain mission display. Although<br> no one could tell him anything about it or what it was<br>called. He continued to play it for enjoyment of family<br>and community. For several years after Anne Grimes found<br>him, Tyler was a featured participant in Ohio Folklore<br>Society Jamborees. This instrument was collected from<br>Warren Reed, Grove City, Ohio for whom Tyler made it<br>originally.</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: Ohio, Galloway
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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: 1996.0276.23
label: accession number
content: 1996.0276
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0276.23
label: collector/donor number
content: E46
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dulcimer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 7 7/16 in x 36 in; 8.255 cm x 18.89125 cm x 91.44 cm