Leary, Folksongs of Another America, p. 86

Leary, James P., Folksongs of Another America (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015), p. 86. archive.org, folksongsofanoth0000lear. https://archive.org/details/folksongsofanoth0000lear.

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Read as archive.org text (folksongsofanoth0000lear); the research files quote p. 86 directly but do not record whether a page image or OCR text was consulted, so this is marked ocr rather than page_image out of caution. The only scholarly treatment correcting the popular claim that Reindahl built the “Viking cello” himself: he coined the name; Orben Sime built and played the pitchfork-strung instrument, and Reindahl separately built the group a conventional cello, commissioned in 1929. Sime's own state is not given verbatim in the quoted passage — “Wisconsin” here is inferred from Reindahl's Madison base and the book's Upper Midwest/Wisconsin subject, not a direct quotation. A 1931 Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota) notice also names Sime as owner-performer of the instrument, independent corroboration of the name but not of a Wisconsin residence.

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Author
Leary, James P.
Title
Folksongs of Another America
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Date
2015
Pages
86
Repository
archive.org
Identifier
folksongsofanoth0000lear

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