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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1985.0430.51
- accession number
- 1985.0430
- catalog number
- 1985.0430.51
- maker number
- 2910
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- Description
- This handbell was made by Schulmerich Carillons, inc. in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, in 1962. It is made of cast bronze with a leather handle. This handbell is part of a 25-note set of English-type handbells (G4 – G6).
- This set of handbells was made for Trinity Baptist Church in Norfolk, Virginia and used in the church’s music programs. The bells continued in use by the choir until 1983, when Schulmerich replaced them with a new set.
- The bells feature U. S. Patent #3139855, filed on January 15, 1963 and granted on July 7, 1964 to Jacob G. Kunz, deceased, and Montgomery County Bank and Trust Company and Bertha L. Kuntz, executors, assignors to Schulmerich Electronics, Inc. for improvements in handbells.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- manufacture date
- 1962
- manufacturer
- Schulmerich Carillons, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1984.0763.09
- accession number
- 1984.0763
- catalog number
- 1984.0763.09
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- Description (Brief)
- This harmonica was made by M. Hohner in Brazil, undetermined date. It is an International model in the key of C, with 10 single holes and 20 reeds. This harmonica has a red stained wooden comb with metal cover plates attached to the the top and bottom with screws. Accessioned with original cardboard box. The harmonica is engraved:
- [Hohner logo]HohnerInternational
- (and):
- MADE INBRAZILL>[Hohner logo]HohnerInternational
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- Hohner
- ID Number
- 1988.0783.527
- accession number
- 1988.0783
- catalog number
- 1988.0783.527
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- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.786
- catalog number
- 73.36a.786
- accession number
- 304324
- maker number
- 74309
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1930s
- user
- Washboard Slim
- maker
- Washboard Slim
- ID Number
- 2007.0002.01
- accession number
- 2007.0002
- catalog number
- 2007.0002.01
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- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- ZZ.RSN79693Z97
- catalog number
- 73.02a.21
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- Description (Brief)
- This quarter-size violin was made by an unknown maker in Milan, Italy around 1700-1725. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two-piece back of maple, hardwood ribs, maple neck, beechwood pegbox and scroll, and a golden orange-brown varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1700-1725
- ID Number
- 1993.0153.01
- catalog number
- 1993.0153.01
- accession number
- 1993.0153
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- Description
- This Appalachian dulcimer was made by Jacob Melton in Galax, Virginia, between 1960 and 1965. It is a single-bout dulcimer, with four strings (two melody and two drones), wood nut and bridge, two 4-hole diamond pattern sound holes and two small round sound holes, 4 banjo-style tuners with plastic heads, carved out pegbox, and rounded head with center hole.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1960 - 1965
- maker
- Melton, Jacob
- ID Number
- 1987.0065.01
- catalog number
- 1987.0065.01
- accession number
- 1987.0065
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.524
- catalog number
- 73.36a.524
- accession number
- 304324
- maker number
- Q-108
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- Description
- This plaque was presented to Duke Ellington by DownBeat magazine in 1966. It is a rectangular shaped wooden plaque with a cast metal musical note and an engraved metal plate. The musical note is cast:
- 1966DOWN BEATAWARD
- (and the metal plate is engraved):
- DUKE ELLINGTONCOMPOSERFIRST PLACE
- American music magazine, DownBeat, was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. The publication is devoted to “jazz, blues and beyond.” DownBeat magazine publishes annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories and presents awards to its winners.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- presentation date
- 1966
- recipient
- Ellington, Duke
- presenter
- Down Beat Magazine
- ID Number
- 1989.0369.134
- accession number
- 1989.0369
- catalog number
- 1989.0369.134
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- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.613
- accession number
- 304324
- catalog number
- 73.36a.613
- maker number
- 9217
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- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.676
- accession number
- 304324
- catalog number
- 73.36a.676
- maker number
- 63009
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- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1989.0306.278
- accession number
- 1989.0306
- catalog number
- 1989.0306.278
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- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1989.0306.012
- accession number
- 1989.0306
- catalog number
- 1989.0306.012
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- Description
- This violin was made in Markneukirchen, Germany around 1890. This instrument with 7/8-size normal violin rib outline is open, without table or back, to limit sound volume. A central strip supports the bridge and provision is made for a “chinrest” area at the lower left bout. A normal violin neck allows the instrument to be used for technique development. This violin is made of a “table strip” of walnut, ribs of laminated walnut with walnut body bracing system, maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and a transparent yellow varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1885 - 1895
- ID Number
- MI.215410
- catalog number
- 215410
- accession number
- 39298
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- Description
- This brush stick was made by an unknown maker in the United States, around 1970-1980. It is a made of metal, with a plastic sleeve.
- This brush stick is from a drumset used by Buddy Rich in 1983-1987.
- Bernard "Buddy" Rich (1917-1987) began his professional career as a drummer, tap dancer, and singer with his parents' vaudeville act before the age of two. By the time he was six, "Traps, the Boy Wonder," had performed on Broadway and toured the United States and Australia.
- With the demise of the vaudeville circuit and the popularity of the swing era, Buddy became an orchestra musician. His talents as a drummer landed him a job offer with Joe Marsala's band at the Hickory House in New York City in 1937. This led to a long line of high-profile performances with Bunny Berrigan, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and Benny Carter. Buddy's playing style was characterized by phenomenal speed, four-way independence, and an uncanny way of driving a big band.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1970-1980
- user
- Rich, Bernard "Buddy"
- ID Number
- 1988.0665.25
- accession number
- 1988.0665
- catalog number
- 1988.0665.25
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- Description
- This button is from the Bull Moose Party Band (BMPB). It is made of yellow paper with black and red ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:
- I[red heart]BMPB[caricature of a moose]BULL MOOSE PARTY BAND
- The [New] Bull Moose Party Band was formed in the Log Angeles area, in 1979. The band performed Dixieland and traditional Jazz releasing two records in the 1980s. BMPS continued to perform at traditional Jazz festivals until the mid-1980s.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- early 1980s
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- ID Number
- 2011.3086.142
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3086
- catalog number
- 2011.3086.142
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- Description
- This violin fine tuner was made by an unknown maker, undetermined provenance and date.
- 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
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2018.3081.335
- nonaccession number
- 2018.3081
- catalog number
- 2018.3081.335
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.288
- accession number
- 304324
- catalog number
- 73.36a.288
- maker number
- 66813
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- user
- Cheatham, Doc
- maker
- Bach (The Selmer Company)
- ID Number
- 2002.0218.14
- accession number
- 2002.0218
- catalog number
- 2002.0218.14
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