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[Gibson County Dulcimer #2]

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The current owner located this instrument at the same time as Gibson Dulcimer #1. No other information known of its origins.

[Gibson County Dulcimer #3]

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This instrument was built by Almus Crowe of Milan, Tennessee, likely in the 1960s. According to the builder, his instruments were modeled on 19th-century instruments from the West Tennessee region. The label inside reads as follows:

"No 9 A.…

[Giles County Dulcimer #1]

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According to its oral history, this instrument originally belonged to Mary Elizabeth (Mary Lizzie) Follis Thurman (b. 1898), who was one of twelve children, and lived in Giles County, Tennessee, all her life. The current owner remembers it being in…

[Giles County Dulcimer #2]

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This dulcimer was purchased by the current owner for his grandmother when he was in high school to replace her dulcimer which had burned years earlier in a house fire. He remembers hearing her talk of it often and located this one which had…

[Giles County Dulcimer #3]

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Found in a barn about 60 years ago, in Giles County in the Shores community, this dulcimer was probably made by Jasper Freeman, the current owner's great-grandfather.

[Giles County Dulcimer #4]

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Owned and built by Sarah Ellen Skeets Kieff (Jan. 6, 1890-Feb. 11, 1949) and her husband William Michael Kieff (Mar. 28, 1886-Sept. 25, 1949), probably in the late 1920s. At the time, they were living in Lester, Alabama (Limestone County). The…

[Giles County Dulcimer #5]

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This instrument belonged to the current owner's mother, Ella Whett Faulkenberry (maiden name), b. 1892, from Lincoln County, Tennessee. She had learned to play when she was very young, playing with a noter stick, or sometimes a clothes pin, and with…

[Giles County Dulcimer #6]

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This instrument, exhibiting a lot of noter wear, was probably built in the 1890s by Mark Page, grandfather of Alta May Page Hand, or possibly by her great-grandfather. Later owners tended to be in the Page family.

[Hamilton County Dulcimer #1]

This dulcimer was purchased by S. C. of Nashville, Tennessee, from Tom Hicks of Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He is a dulcimer builder who accepted this dulcimer in trade toward another dulcimer, and believed he had acquired it from a man who lived in…

[Hardin County Dulcimer #1]

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The previous owner, James Brady from Lexington, Kentucky, got this dulcimer from Crump, Tennessee, HW 64 between Adamsville and Savannah, Hardin County. It was found in the attic of a red log house near Shiloh National Park. Mr. Brady sanded it,…