Luthiery
Luthiery: the making and repairing of stringed instruments, e.g., guitars, banjos, mandolins, violins, basses, dulcimers, 'ukuleles, harps, etc.
KENTUCKY FORMS and CRAFTERS:
GENERAL STRINGED INSTRUMENT CRAFTERS:
Another Era Lutherie [harps] (Craig Pierpont - Metcalfe Co.: Edmonton)
James E. Webb Musical Repair and Sales (Martin Co.: Tomahawk, KY)
Kentucky Guitar Works [bluegrass instruments] (Rick Faris - Daviess Co.: Owensboro)
Troublesome Creek String Instrument Company (Knott Co.: Hindman, KY)
OTHER STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
OUD (Arabian lute - built and played, e.g., by Lexington, KY artist George Wakim)
KENTUCKY LUTHIERS: An important exhibit on luthiery entitled "Made to be Played: Traditional Art of Kentucky Luthiers" was developed from fieldwork carried out in 2006-7 by the Kentucky Folklife Program, with sponsorship by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council. The living luthiers presented in the exhibit were subsequently interviewed on videotape in a program of KCHEA, the Kentucky Crafts History and Education Association.
VIDEOS:
Stringed Instruments: The Art of the Luthier (Kentucky Oral History Comission videos of luthiers)
The Fine Art and Craft of Kentucky’s Stringed Instruments (KET "Kentucky Life")
The High Lonesome Sound: Kentucky Mountain Music (John Cohen, 1963).
SCHOOLS:
Appalachian School of Luthiery (Knott Co.: Hindman, KY)
MUSEUMS:
Museum of the Mountain Dulcimer (Knott Co.: Hindman, KY)
