Keywords: Violins
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Blue Hill, Maine - Adelaide Pearson
"… for Blue Hill's growth as a cultural center after the Second World War. Adelaide Pearson with violin, 1894Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4
"Winslow Homer made a sketch of the violin and gave it to Mrs. Vaill who was offered a substantial sum for it."
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Skowhegan Community History - About the Project
"… the scrapbook of Elise Fellows White, a child violin prodigy from Skowhegan who, in the 1880s, played in Boston at the age of ten and in Vienna…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill
"Fiedler on 2nd violin, Louis Svecenski on the viola and Fritz Giese on the cello. Kneisel had a home in Blue Hill and came up every summer."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"A violin player played for dancing – a jolly time, and it smelled so good – lots of hay…" Following this move, ownership of the barn transferred from…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era
"A year later Schelling composed a violin concerto for Kreisler, which Kreisler played often throughout the rest of his career."
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
"… in the town’s music activities, playing the bass, violin, and horn. The Bartlett family owned a lot of property and a mill in the North Village."