The 
"Song of the Wood" Workshop!

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.