[Lawrence County Dulcimer #6]

[Lawrence County Dulcimer #6]

This instrument originally belonged to the mother of the current owner, Rhoda Hood Newton, who had had it since before she was married. She was born in 1890 in Grassy, Alabama, and moved to Lawrence County when young. The current owner does not remember hearing the instrument played.

Lawrence-6

Lawrence County, Tennessee

C

T., Five Points, Tennessee

27 5/8" x 13" x 3 1/4"

26 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 1 5/8"

American chestnut top; poplar bottom; feet chestnut; four feet; seam down length of bottom; alternating sound holes; sides may originally have been wood for a window casing or door casing; on the nut end, the tin is bent over a nail; brass brads in tin