Beatrice Metheny's lap dulcimer made by Jack Keith, a stave mill worker in Braxton County, WV. A stave mill could produce the narrow boards needed to make dulcimers. The instrument, presented in this image lying flat on a wooden porch, features an hourglass shape, three strings, wooden tuning pegs, scrollwork at the head, and four heart-shaped sound holes. archive reference: GM S1340. Project description: 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 photographs, 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 and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.
