Hourglass lap dulcimer with wooden pegs and heart-shaped sound holes made by Sylvan James. James is described by Gerry Milnes as a pre-revival Braxton County dulcimer maker from Lower Mill Creek. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, June 1992, Braxton County, WV. archive reference: GM S1432 and GM S1431. 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.
