Feral Flying Fiddle - Full-Size 4/4 Cigar Box Violin

This listing is for a full 4/4 (13"-scale) Violin made out of a Liga Privada Unico Feral Flying Pig box. Nick Lanciano painstakingly hand-crafted this amazing instrument here in the C. B. Gitty shop, creating a beautiful, amazing heirloom instrument - when you hear it, you can't help but think "wow, I had no idea a cigar box could sound like that." This is an absolutely unique, one-of-a-kind fiddle that would grace any musical collection.

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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.