Archive Reference: GM S1343
Description: Close-up: head and wooden tuning pegs on lap dulcimer made by Jack Keith and owned by Beatrice Metheny. This instrument is made of chestnut wood and features three strings, wooden tuning pegs, scrollwork at the head, and heart-shaped sound holes. Jack Keith was a stave mill worker in Braxton County, WV. A stave mill could produce the narrow boards needed to make dulcimers.
Photographed by: Gerry Milnes
Date: March 1989
Location: Braxton County, WV
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.
