Reenactment Fiddle

[Company Fiddler]

I recently saw a photo of an acutal CW fiddle owned by a Capt. Cross of a NY regiment. He had carved his name, unit and a heart with his wife's name on it. I was inspired by Capt. Cross's fiddle to carve inscriptions on one of my old fiddles. It is strung with gut strings.

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[PVT.BEN MILLER]

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neat! I got a fiddle a year or two that had been made during the war and on the inside it had "52nd Virginia" carved in to it. And it sounds like angels huming.

[Nathan Dodds]

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I was inspired by Capt. Cross's fiddle to carve inscriptions on one of my old fiddles. It is strung with gut strings.

I hope you don't get "inspired" to do too much more to that old fiddle. Neat looking or not.

[Ryan Halsey]

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Thats a nice fiddle. I always try to take mine.(Doc Watson always tells me to) Although, I am not gonna do that to one of my 1860's fiddles. Nice pic.

[Company Fiddler]

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Gentlemen,

Thank you for your comments. While I do own two 19th century fiddles, this is not one of them. It has no lable so exact age is uncertain but I'm sure that it's age doesn't match its appearence. It was in very poor condition when I purchased it for the purpose of practicing luthier skills. It was in effect, a throw away instrument. After getting it back into playing condition, I desided to do the carving for use at reenactments. This fiddle has no where near the value or historical importance of my other violins and hence it made a good candidate for this application.