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- Description
- This harmonica was made by M. Hohner in Germany, undetermined date. It is an Up To Date Surprise model in the key of A, with 10 single holes and 20 reeds. This harmonica has a red stained wooden comb with metal cover plates attached to the top and bottom with nails. The harmonica is engraved:
- UP TO DATE SURPRISEREGISTERED PATENT APPLIED FORMADE INGERMANYBY M.HOHNER A
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Hohner, M.
- ID Number
- 1988.0783.405
- accession number
- 1988.0783
- catalog number
- 1988.0783.405
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- Description
- This three-quarters size violin was made in Mittenwald, Germany around 1900. This is an instrument of commercial Mittenwald manufacture. As the classic tradition of violin-making waned during the first half of the 19th Century, makers like Ludwig Neuner (1840-1897) collaborated with other Mittenwald workmen to meet the demand for new instruments. Neuner, a gifted craftsman who spent six years in Paris working for J. B. Vuillaume, returned to Mittenwald in 1884 and enlarged the commercial firm of Neuner & Hornsteiner. Under his leadership, over 200 employees were used to meet the international demand for commercial as well as finely crafted instruments. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, back of maple in two pieces with mild, irregular horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple, neck, pegbox and scroll of mildly figured maple, and a shaded opaque yellow-brown varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1898 - 1902
- ID Number
- MI.65.0750
- catalog number
- 65.0750
- accession number
- 182022
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 20th century
- maker
- Bilyeu, Tom
- ID Number
- 2001.0158.02
- accession number
- 2001.0158
- catalog number
- 2001.0158.02
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- Description
- This award was presented to Duke Ellington from Esquire magazine in 1946. It features a stylized gold-tone statue of a man playing a trumpet, Esquire magazine’s pop-eyed mascot “Esky,” on a brown-stained wooden base with an embossed and engraved metal plate. The metal plate is marked:
- EsquirE’sALL AMERICAN BANDARRANGER-GOLD AWARDAWARDED TODUKE ELLINGTON1946
- Esquire is an American men’s magazine founded in 1933. The magazine featured its first jazz awards, All-American Jazz All Stars and All-American Jazz Band, chosen by Esquire’s board of leading jazz artists, critics, and writers, in 1944. The inaugural winners included Billie Holiday, Roy Eldridge, Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Al Casey, Oscar Pettiford, and Sidney Catlett.
- The “Esky” mascot was created by African American cartoonist E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971).
- An ad for the Esquire awards appeared in a January 5, 1946 issue of Billboard magazine indicating the list of winners would be in the Esquire February 1946 issue, which sold for 50 cents. Esquire also published a 1946 Jazz book that featured articles, photographs, and biographies of the 1946 winners, which sold for $1.00. Additionally, a concert presented by the winners, and emceed by Orson Welles in New York, would be aired over the entire ABC network.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- presentation date
- 1946
- recipient
- Ellington, Duke
- ID Number
- 1989.0369.112
- accession number
- 1989.0369
- catalog number
- 1989.0369.112
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1997
- user
- Levy, John
- ID Number
- 2011.3087.53
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3087
- catalog number
- 2011.3087.53
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1883
- maker
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- ID Number
- 2015.3005.060
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3005
- catalog number
- 2015.3005.060
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2016.0032.040
- accession number
- 2016.0032
- catalog number
- 2016.0032.040
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1995
- user
- Levy, John
- ID Number
- 2011.3087.02
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3087
- catalog number
- 2011.3087.02
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- Description
- This pencil on paper drawing was made by Arnold R. Bone. It is a design for an unidentified tool. The drawing looks like the lower bout of a violin with the placement of the button. (Related drawings include: Cat. #2002.0167.32.08; 2002.0167.32.26). Bone would design and make custom tools for bow making and repair.
- Arnold R. Bone (July 26, 1913 - August 9, 2001) was an engineer, inventor, gunsmith, string instrument bowmaker. He grew up in South Ryegate, Vermont, and graduated from Wentworth Institute in 1935. After graduation, Bone worked at Irwin Auger Bit Company in Wilmington, Ohio before returning to Wentworth to teach Navy machinist mates during World War II until 1944. The final part of his career, Bone worked at Dennison Mfg. Company in Framingham (now Avery Dennison) when he retired in 2000.
- Arnold R. Bone held numerous patents at Dennison, including several for the Swiftacher, the device for attaching tags to clothing with a nylon filament. His ubiquitous fasteners are still used today. Bone applied his engineering and master craftsman skills to making string instrument bows, and also became one of the world's most respected experts on repair and restoration of fine bows. His customers ranged from young students to members of professional ensembles such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and bows were shipped to him from all over the world.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- designed
- Bone, A. R.
- ID Number
- 2002.0167.32.07
- catalog number
- 2002.0167.32.07
- accession number
- 2002.0167
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- Description
- This harmonica was made by M. Hohner in Germany, undetermined date. It is a Hohner Boy model in the key of F, with 10 single holes and 20 reeds. The harmonica has a brown and black painted wooden comb with metal cover plates nailed to the top and bottom. The harmonica is engraved:
- HOHNER BOYHARMONICA
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Hohner, M.
- ID Number
- 1988.0783.064
- accession number
- 1988.0783
- catalog number
- 1988.0783.064
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1883
- Associated Name
- Wagner, Richard
- maker
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- ID Number
- 2015.3005.059
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3005
- catalog number
- 2015.3005.059
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1993.0453.029
- accession number
- 1993.0453
- catalog number
- 1993.0453.029
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2016.0032.117
- accession number
- 2016.0032
- catalog number
- 2016.0032.117
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.382
- accession number
- 304324
- catalog number
- 73.36a.382
- maker number
- 77603
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- Description
- This harmonica was made by an unknown maker in Germany U.S. Zone, around 1945-1949. It is a Swing Band model, in the key of C, with 10 single holes and 20 reeds. This harmonica has a yellow and black stained wooden comb with metal cover plates attached to the top and bottom with screws and nuts. The harmonica is engraved:
- SWING BANDMADE IN GERMANY U.S. ZONE
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1945-1949
- ID Number
- 1988.0783.533
- accession number
- 1988.0783
- catalog number
- 1988.0783.533
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1996.0042.35
- catalog number
- 1996.0042.35
- accession number
- 1996.0042
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- Description
- This teakettle was made in Germany for Lentrade, Inc. of Houston, Texas, 1980s. It is part of the Chantal line of teakettles made of enamel on steel, with a Hohner harmonica whistle which hits the notes E flat and E as the water comes to a boil. Accessioned with original box.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1980s
- ID Number
- 1988.0783.666
- catalog number
- 1988.0783.666
- accession number
- 1988.0783
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1998.3074.28
- nonaccession number
- 1998.3074
- catalog number
- 1998.3074.28
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- Description (Brief)
- This harmonica was made by Hohner in Shanghai, China, undetermined date. It is a Lark model with 12 single holes and 24 reeds. This harmonica has a black wooden comb; with metal cover plates attached with screws and nuts. Accessioned with original box and outer packaging. The harmonica is engraved:
- LARKSHANGHAI, CHINA
- (the box is marked):
- LARKHARMONICAM 1202SHANGHAI, CHINA
- (the outer packaging is marked):
- FOR AGES 3 AND OVERHARMONICASHOHNER INTERNATIONALA fun wayto introduce childrento the worldof Music!FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Hohner
- ID Number
- 1988.0783.594
- accession number
- 1988.0783
- catalog number
- 1988.0783.594
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.546
- catalog number
- 73.36a.546
- accession number
- 304324
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