A Thing I Didn’t Know

February 21st, 2007

Orville Wright, one of the airplane inventin’ Wright Brothers, played mandolin. Not only that, he played it quite a bit as this letter from his sister Katharine shows. “Orv has begun lessons on his mandolin and we are getting even with the neighborhood for the noise they have made on pianos. He sits around and picks that thing until I can hardly stay in the house.” If you want to examine the instrument that caused all that ruckus, you can go see it at the Smithsonian.-MJS

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