Object Name Fiddle Date Ca. 1800 Material(s) Gourd; wood/Wood/Leather Description The body of this fiddle is made from a gourd. More than half of the gourd was used. The open area on the front is covered with wood, leaving the center hollow. The wood covering has two sound holes in it. The scroll, neck, bridge and tailpiece are all made of wood. The scroll is crudely carved. There are four strings attached to four pegs. There is a leather strip attached to the tail piece. The bow is made of wood. The bow hair is fraying. Notes Accession files recorded that this fiddle was ”made by early settler and used for many years, given to W.W. Longmoor after his election to Clerk, Court of Appeals in 1890.” It was donated by his wife, Louisa Bell Addams Longmoor. HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1218-19-20. [Franklin County] WOODFORD W. LONGMOOR--It was within the province of the late Woodford Woodnut Longmoor to have wielded a large and beneficent influence in the business, social and public affairs of his native state, which he also represented as a gallant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, and he was that exponent of that high type of manhood which ever stands indicatory of usefulness and subjective integrity and honor. He was incumbent of the office of clerk of the Kentucky court of appeals at the time of his death, which occurred in Frankfort, the capital city, on the 20th of March, 1891. Mr. Longmoor was a scion of families whose names have been identified with the history of Kentucky since the pioneer epoch. He himself was born in Kenton county, on the 21st of June, 1840, and he was a son of George and Amanda (Hammett) Longmoor, the former of whom was born in Bourbon county, this state, and the latter of whom was born in Kenton county, where her father Samuel Hammett, was a pioneer farmer. George Longmoor became one of the prosperous agriculturalists of Kenton county, where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1847, his wife surviving him by a number of years. As a lad of fourteen years Woodford W. Longmoor was sent to the neighboring city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to attend school, where he continued his studies for a period of five years, the last two of which he passed in Farmers’ College, an excellent institution of that period. He more Collection Louisa Longmoor Collection People Longmoor, Woodford W. Subjects Fiddles Music Musical instruments Search Terms Kentucky Frankfort (Ky.) Physical Holder Kentucky Historical Society - KHS
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