Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — A Violin from Wood That Grew Before Noah. [ARTICLE]

A Violin from Wood That Grew Before Noah.

Henry F. Gain, a violinist of some note in Indiana, has recently come into possession of a violin made of wood that grew before the flood. Some forty years ago workmen engaged in digging a millrace through the farm owned by Daniel B. Dulla discovered at the depth of six or eight feet beneath the surfaoe the trank of a tree in a good state of preservation. Geologists say that the wood is many thousand years old. Recently the wood was taken to A. B. Clark, who was engaged in preparing a Cremona that was captured in the siege of Mexico. Clark made models of the old Cremona, and in the course of three months had given the finishing touches to the new violin. The belly was of the old antediluvian wood, and the back and neck of wavy maple, cut in Pennsylvania fifty years ago, and rafted down the Ohio to Cincinnati, and oarried on to Dayont for ftn old cabinetmaker, who

was never able to use it. The figure of the old instrument was followed exaotly, and when the new one was finished it was an exact facsimile of those built by Stradivarius. When the bow was drawn across it the two connoisseurs went into ecstasies of delight. The glue was barely set, and the varnish was still green, but there was an absence of the thiok, raw quality that marks a new violin.— Richmond (Ind.) Palladium.