Music & Musical Instruments

Made for country music star Patsy Cline by her mother, this Western-style performance outfit features record-shaped patches stitched with the titles of Cline's records. Cline began singing with gospel and country bands as a teenager in Virginia. With her 1957 breakout hit "Walkin' after Midnight," she became the first female country vocalist to cross over to the pop charts. In 1960, Cline achieved her childhood dream of joining the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Three years later, she died in a plane crash.

ink colored western-style shirt with black piping and adorned with hot pink rhinestones and black wool 'record discs' hand-stitched with the names of Patsy Cline's hit songs including "Come On In" [left shoulder], "Poor Man's Roses" [right shoulder], "Walking After Midnight" [back], "Stop the Worlds" [left leg]. and "Yes I Understand" [right leg]. This shirt was part of an outfit worn by Patsy Cline and made by her mother, Hilda Hensley.

This button is from the Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee Jazz Festival, in 1988. The button is a made of light blue paper with black and red ink covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:

DIXIELAND JUBILEE
15th ANNIVERSARY 1988
Sacramento

The Sacramento Music Festival (formerly the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee) was an annual event held every Memorial Day weekend in Sacramento, California. Organized by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the festival was launched in 1974 and presented its final festival in 2017.

Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.

This harmonica was made by an unknown maker in Germany, undetermined date. It is a walking stick model with 10 single holes and 20 reeds. This harmonica, incorporated near the top of the walking stick, is made of black painted wood with a wood knob at one end and decorative metal bands. This walking stick is engraved:

D.R.G.M. stands for “Deutsches Reichsgebrauchsmuster” (German Reich Registered Design) indicating that this object is officially registered inside all of the Germany states.

This Patron badge is from the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival, in 1989. The button is a made of light blue paper with black and red lettering covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. There is a purple ribbon attached to the back of the button. The button is printed:

LOS ANGELES AIRPORT MARRIOTT
LOS ANGELES
CLASSIC
JAZZ
FESTIVAL
1989
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT HILTON

(the ribbon is printed):

PATRON

Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.

This barrel organ was mad by made by Gavioli & Cie. in Paris, France, after 1867. It is guitar-shaped, with 8 tunes. This barrel organ has 26 keys, and is hand cranked. There is a leather shoulder strap to use while playing the barrel organ. This barrel organ has a cast medallion:

EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1867 A PARIS MÉDAILLE DE BRONZE
GAVIOLI
& CIE
DEUX MLES D’ARGENT
SIX MLES D-OR

This violoncello bridge was made by an undetermined maker in The Hague, Netherlands, undetermined date. It is a French model bridge. The bridge is stamped:

[E BACZ?] DEN HAAG

This item was sold by Albert Moglie (b. December 16, 1890, Rome; d. June 9, 1988, Washington DC), instrument maker and restorer, and proprietor of a violin shop in Washington DC for 65 years from 1922 until 1987. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to Antonio Sgarbi and subsequently worked under Luigi Enbergher, Giuseppe Rossi and Rodolfo Fredi, all of Rome. Following these apprenticeships, Moglie was a student of Hippolyte Sylvestre in Paris and Leandro Bisiach in Milan.

Albert Moglie came to America at the age of 24 to work for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, first in Cincinnati and then New York City in 1916. By 1917 he had established his own shop in New York at 1431 Broadway. He moved to Washington DC in 1922.

Moglie enjoyed a fine reputation in Washington as a violin restorer, and is especially remembered as the caretaker of the Gertrude Clark Whittall Stradivari quartet of instruments at the Library of Congress, an association that began in the 1930s and lasted more than 50 years.

The Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Archives Center houses additional information on the life and career of Albert F. Moglie:

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0283

This button is from the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee festival, in 1974. It is a made of white paper with red ink covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. The center has a rectangular cut-out for inserting a nametag. The button is printed and handwritten:

OLD SACRAMENTO
'74
LEVIN
TABLE A-1
DIXIE LAND JUBILEE

The Sacramento Music Festival (formerly the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee) was an annual event held every Memorial Day weekend in Sacramento, California. Organized by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the festival was launched in 1974 and presented its final festival in 2017.

Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.

This pitch pipe was made by an undetermined maker, provenance unknown, undetermined date. Cylindrical metal pitch pipe with metal reed at one end. With separable outer case.

This item was sold by Albert Moglie (b. December 16, 1890, Rome; d. June 9, 1988, Washington DC), instrument maker and restorer, and proprietor of a violin shop in Washington DC for 65 years from 1922 until 1987. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to Antonio Sgarbi and subsequently worked under Luigi Enbergher, Giuseppe Rossi and Rodolfo Fredi, all of Rome. Following these apprenticeships, Moglie was a student of Hippolyte Sylvestre in Paris and Leandro Bisiach in Milan.

Albert Moglie came to America at the age of 24 to work for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, first in Cincinnati and then New York City in 1916. By 1917 he had established his own shop in New York at 1431 Broadway. He moved to Washington DC in 1922.

Moglie enjoyed a fine reputation in Washington as a violin restorer, and is especially remembered as the caretaker of the Gertrude Clark Whittall Stradivari quartet of instruments at the Library of Congress, an association that began in the 1930s and lasted more than 50 years.

The Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Archives Center houses additional information on the life and career of Albert F. Moglie:

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0283