[Hickman County Dulcimer #1]

[Hickman County Dulcimer #1]

The owner of this instrument--whose mother (b. 1885) called it a "harmonica"--reported that it was in kept in the house of her grandmother, Mattie Lowe Petty. She in turn had come from Ohio in a covered wagon to Maury County, then to Hickman County.

Hickman-1

Hickman County, Tennessee

C

S.

27" x 11" x 3 3/8"

26 1/2" x 1 1/4" x 1 1/2"

unknown wood type; red/orange/white stain pattern; 15 frets; 3 original tuners; one scallop in the fretboard at a sound hole; large sound hole positioned behind fretboard