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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raido Free America" data-source="post: 3811727" data-attributes="member: 45328"><p>I'm a wannabe musician, and know a little about acoustic instruments.  Fiddles can literally be worth millions, or be worthless, and everything in between, which make them hard to know the value. I went to a sale years ago, and this guy had a Gibson fiddle that was, in mint condition, with a lot of inlay, matching bow, with Gibsion inlaid on the frog, original case, just a beautiful instrument. It was dated 1939! Well I had never heard of a Gibson Fiddle, and I know evey everything! There are counterfit instruiment around so I was suspicias this was one of them. I have a 1986 F-5L Gibson Mandolin worth quite bit. He wanted $600.00 for this fiddle! I went home and looked this up, It seems Gibson Co. contracted there fiddles, to a fiddle maker in Germany back in the 1930 and before! When Nazi Germany invaded Polland in 1938, the US placed a trade imbargo on them, and Gibson could no longer get fiddles from their maker in Germany. Gibson started manufacturing their own Gibson brand Fiddles in Kalamazoo Michigan, and made them from 1939 through 1945! They made four models from, plain to ornate, with pearl inlaid, this Fiddle was the fancier model. These fiddles are not concidered the best sounding fiddles, but are somewhat rare, at that time it was worth about $1,200.00! I beat a path back over to the sale and this guy had looked it up, and had gone up to $1,200.00! I don't play the fiddle but this would have been a good collector item. I tryed to learn to play the fiddle years ago, but couldn't afford the divorce that was going to cause!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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