A friend on another message board asked me yesterday if I had ever heard of a violin having a pitch pipe on it. Knowing she is sort of a joker, I asked if she was serious or just yanking my chain. Turns out, she's serious.

She has an old (probably 1930s) fiddle that belonged to her dad. Her crazyass mother spraypainted it gold for a wall decoration after they divorced, but that's another story. Anyhow, sure enough, the endpin of this fiddle is an A pitch pipe. I did a little Googling and found only one other, a 1960s German made violin.

Anyone else ever heard of this, or have any information? Many thanks.