Scrapyard Fiddle - Full-Size Box Fiddle

This instrument was built out of scrap wood using the same design for our Americana Fiddle Kit. from here at the Gitty workshop and combines all of the knowledge of our Master Fiddle maker Nick Lanciano.

The result is a full 4/4 (13"-scale) Violin, with ebony fingerboard and pegs, a scrolled maple neck and premium laser-cut box body. It also comes with a chin rest pre-installed for comfortable playing. Lovingly built right here in the C. B. Gitty workshop, this is an heirloom-grade instrument sure to turn heads at your next old time jam session.

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The violin as we know it today, is said to have originated sometime in the 16th century.

They are often considered one of the most important instruments in the history of Western music. Its ability to harmonize in a high register and sing above the contemporary string section in an orchestra played a crucial role in the development of Western Music.

Their popularity was so great that it eventually became a staple in Folk music. The cost associated with a professionally built instrument were not inconsiderate. When there was not a fiddle passed down or traded, there were many that had no recourse but to build their own.

Building and playing homemade fiddles has been a part of the American musical tradition from the country’s earliest years. Drawing upon their ancestors’ European roots, settlers from the Appalachian mountains to the woods of Wisconsin to the great deserts of the southwest turned their hands to crafting handmade fiddles from whatever they had at hand. Cigar boxes, packing crates and many other implements were re-purposed to make music, and the tradition still continues today.