Windfall Fiddle
Carl Carmer
Hardcover
(Alfred A Knopf Inc, March 15, 1950)
When the violin, offered as a soap-wrapper premium, arrived at Bob's house, everyone turned in to help the boy learn to fiddle tunes and hymns. The instrument proved itself one of the most caterwauling ever glued and was promptly tossed into the fire. How Bob finally got an excellent violin is a colorful story of small-town life brim full of boyhood incident and anecdote, and rich with the background of Carl Carmer's beloved upstate New York.