A ACS 6.201
Artist: Beatrice Metheny and Sonja Bird
Album/Event:
Tracks:
Collected/Recorded by: Gerry Milnes
Date: 3/6/1989
Location: Braxton County, WV
Notes: Metheny was a dulcimer player born 6-5-1904. Father and mother played dulcimer and she has two old instruments; Father, Earl Singleton. Talk of father’s dulcimers. Mother could play. Raised on Upper Mill Creek, Braxton County. Sylvan James made dulcimers. Dad was raised in Salt Lick country of Braxton County and died in 1970. We used a turkey quill and noter to play. Pop played Old Dan Tucker. Jack Keith died when Beatrice was young. Beatrice’s other dulcimer was made by Sylvan James. Sylvan made lots of them. She bought this one in the fifties. Used Keith dulcimer for a pattern. Sylvan James made his with apple wood. Brown Singleton (brother) played fiddle or “anything”. Talk of family singing.
Sonja Bird sings on side B
The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes with earlier dates that others sent to him.