Instrument: fiddle, with case and bow

Instrument: fiddle, with case and bow

Handicraft

Musical instruments

This handmade fiddle or violin is wooden with a plastic chin rest. The back is of maple, front of spruce, with tail pieces and pins of ebony. The four strings are held up by a wooden bridge with "F" written on it, and the body has f shaped sound holes. A handwritten note inside the body reads, "Rogers Zachary Coward Webster, N.C. March 1938 Handmade #4." Fiddle includes case and bow.

Coward, Rogers Zachary

Webster Historical Society Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1938-03

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crafts (art genres)

eng

StillImage

15329

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/15329

2008-02-27

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

24" x 8.25" x 1.75"(dimension)

Craft Revival