The collection contains music manuscripts, published music, unpublished essays and poems,
photographs and sound recordings by Otto and Iva Rindlisbacher.
Series I includes music folios of fiddle tunes transcribed or composed by Otto; folios of
old time tunes arranged for piano, two trumpets and saxophone; published folio "20 original
reel, jigs and hornpipes by Otto Rindlisbacher" (1931); stories about the "One-Shot Gang";
hunting and lumberjack stories and poems; fiddle manual, "A good alternative for bowing and
fingering exercises"; loose manuscripts of fiddle tunes and sketches; manuscripts of
Hawaiian tunes arranged by Iva; published music by Otto and Iva; miscellaneous prose and
poetry manuscripts by Otto and Iva.
Series II includes a small number of photographs of Otto and Iva, their group the Wisconsin
Lumberjacks, and postcards promoting the Buckhorn Tavern, and a tavern brochure. The sound
recordings consist of five audiotape reels of Otto performing Swiss and Norwegian tunes on
Hardanger fiddle likely recorded in the 1950s.
