Carol Appalachian Dulcimer
date: label: date made
content: 1976
name: label: maker
content: Carol, Bonnie
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This Appalachian dulcimer was made by Bonnie Carol in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976. It is a double-bout dulcimer, serial #103, made of cherry, with a rosewood fingerboard with 16 metal frets, four heart-shaped sound holes, 4 strings with Schaller tuners made of chrome with perloid buttons. There is label inside the instrument:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Bonnie Carol<br>Boulder<br>Colorado<br>June 76<br>#103.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This dulcimer was previously owned by Anne Grimes (1912-2004) 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: Colorado, Boulder
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sara Grimes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0196.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0196
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0196.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dulcimer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cherry (body material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (frets material)
label: Physical Description
content: perloid (button material)
label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (fingerboard material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 in; 80.01 cm x 19.05 cm x 7.62 cm