The 
"Song of the Wood" Workshop!

I've pretty much wrapped up the year in the Workshop.  I am, however, still in the final stages of finishing, adjusting and readying for shipment 6 or 7 Grande Concertmasters and a couple of Concertmasters.  As usual I am very excited about what the new year will bring.  God has blessed my work and life beyond anything I deserve and I am exceedingly grateful.  I look forward to spending my every waking hour working hard for Him and His Glory in 2010.  Walking minute by minute with our Creator is exhilarating and humbling.  My prayer for you ... is to Know Him.

I have been designing and crafting primarily Hammer Dulcimers for over 33 years now.  I started building in a basement workshop I set up in a house I rented back in the early 70's.  The house sat on 3 acres of land with streams in both the front and back yard.  I drove a little Toyota Corolla station wagon I had traded for a Hammer Dulcimer, heated the house with wood and paid the "outrageous" sum of $60 a month for rent (for 5 years!).  I was forced to move my workshop to my showrooms present location in the summer of 1980 when I couldn't afford to buy the house .  They were asking $20,000 and I couldn't imagine borrowing that much money.  It's ironic but, after moving out, I ended up investing $10,000 in my first recording "The Strayaway Child."  That turned out to be a far "wiser" decision.  Not "my" wisdom ... I might add!

About 10 years ago, after a long and delightful journey, I realized a long-held dream ... to get my workshop ... "back home."  My workshop is now just a few steps outside my front door ... up through the Rhododendron and Oaks. 

If you are headed to the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Asheville/Black Mountain area and would like to visit my musical instrument workshop, it's only a short 20 minute drive from the showroom.  There is a good chance I can accommodate a visit if you call and make an appointment in advance.  I enjoy giving tours of my shop and sharing my experiences with wood, acoustics, tools and instrument making.  I certainly don't know everything about these subjects but I love discussing ... and ...  I've learned some very interesting things from my guests.  So ... please ... don't be a stranger!

Give me a call if you have the time, and see a real  musical instrument design studio and workshop in action.  If the conversation calls for it, we'll take the discussion out to the deck.  That's where I do some of my best thinking (if you can call it that!).

  If you have questions, need more information, 
     or would like to place an order, please . . .
 E-mail us: Here.
Call or fax us at: 828-669-7675
Visit or write us at: Song of the Wood
203 West State Street
Black Mountain, NC  28711
 Or fill out the form on our Order Page.