Item Detail
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
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The Leonard Finseth collection
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Leonard Finseth was a Norwegian-American folk fiddler, farmer, and factory worker in Mondovi, Wisconsin. Born February 11, 1911 after his parents emigrated to the United States from Norway, Finseth's first musical training was from one of his two sisters who taught him the organ at a young age. He began to play the fiddle at age 17 after his uncle, Ed Quall, himself a fiddler of some renown, helped him get a fiddle through mail order and started to give him lessons. Finseth could and did read music, but his folk fiddling was more of an oral tradition learned from his uncle Ed, his neighbor Ingvald Syverson, and Otto Rindlisbacher (from Rice Lake, Wisconsin and of Swiss descent). The collection consists primarily of home recordings Finseth made of himself often with accompanying musicians mostly recorded in the 1970s and 80s. Most of the recordings were indexed by Bob Andresen. The collection also includes photographs and correspondence. (from the website)
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Website
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Madison, Wis.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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English
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Internet
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13873