This is the fancy fiddle that graced the hands of one Vassar Clements! 🎻 It is believed to have been crafted in the 1500s by a renowned (yet unknown) German luthier.
The fiddle features an ornately carved scroll and a painting depicting Sappho holding a lute. It is believed to have been owned previously by a distinguished Russian violinist, and by renowned bluegrass fiddler John Hartford, who gifted this fiddle to Vassar in the 1970s.
Just Wow!
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