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Audio Recording Interview with Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Interview with Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Names

  • Hellenberg, Antony, 1938-2000 (Collector)
  • Schuh, Siegfried (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, April 27, 1977

Headings

  • -  German Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Mr. Siegfried Schuh, part 2
  • -  Part 2 of 3-part interview with violin maker Siegfried Schuh, who lives and works at his apartment located at 525 W. Belmont in Chicago; Mr. Schuh is the nephew of Isabella Erbe, and he was born in Schonbach, Egerland (Czechoslovakia), studied in Bubenreuth, Bavaria, and came to Chicago in 1963; topics include working with apprentices, instruments for sharpening tools, making the violin bridge and how it is fitted to the instrument, kinds of glues used for construction and repair work; about the time required to build a violin (ca. 80 hours), although several are built at a time; how varnish can cover mistakes or poor workmanship in wood instruments; variations in violin sizes; difference between a fiddle and a violin; importance of a label inside a violin; where violins were and are made, the best today are made in Germany; on mandolin repair; about other violin makers in Chicago; bows for violins and horsehair replacement; on making guitars; on the kinds of jobs Mr. Schuh accepts; on classical guitars; about Japanese-made instruments; the quality of modern-day violins.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0618
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T027-C
  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20550b

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Hellenberg, Antony, and Siegfried Schuh. Interview with Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20550b/.

APA citation style:

Hellenberg, A. & Schuh, S. (1977) Interview with Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20550b/.

MLA citation style:

Hellenberg, Antony, and Siegfried Schuh. Interview with Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20550b/>.