When young Fred Prouty started in to take violin lessons from Mr. Hard not long ago, the family dug out of the attic—or whatever corresponds to the attic in a Park Place bungalow—an old and abandoned fiddle of Fredrick Prouty Sr.
They carried it over to a fiddle rejuvenator in Durham. He took it apart and found that it had been manufactured in Vermont just 100 years ago this year. When the work was finished, he had produced a good instrument, and young Prouty is using it regularly in his exercises.
From page 2 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, March 6, 1924
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