[McNairy County Dulcimer #1]

[McNairy County Dulcimer #1]

This instrument came to its current owners from a friend who had found it in a garage of a house he had bought in McNairy County, Tennessee.

McNairy-1

McNairy County, Tennessee

C

R., Jackson, Tennessee

Jackson, Tennessee

S. Conatser, D. Schnaufer

27 1/2" x 11" x 3 1/8"

25 1/2" x 1 1/8" x 1 1/8"

poplar; red paint overall; back is nailed on; mitre at corners; thin wood; 1/4" lip between top/back and sides; scalloped fretboard; unusual sound hole pattern; 15 frets, 1/4" wide, made of light wire; 4 strings; tuners missing; 2 bent nails for string anchors; fingerboard wear up to 11th fret; scallops on fretboard go completely through; checkerboard pattern on back, and penciled date: "July 8, 1828"