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Sunday, March 9, 2025

Tools of the trade - Vassar Clements’ fiddle 💫

 


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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