Two similar images of scheitholt from a collection displayed at General Lewis Inn in Lewisburg, WV. The instrument features a slight trapezoid-shaped body, six wooden tuning pegs, staple frets, one star-shaped and four cherry-shaped sound holes. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, Jan 1989, Lewisburg, WV. archive reference: GM S1323 and GM S1324. 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.
