2019 Dulcimer Exhibit Jonesborough TN

Dan
Dan
@dan
5 years ago
186 posts

David Bennett:


The first link says the exhibit features dulcimers made by Ernest Combs. I'm not familiar with this luthier. I could be wrong but from this bio he didn't seem very passionate about dulcimers


https://www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/ernest-combs/


Still there is probably more to the exhibit and either way I am glad they are even doing a dulcimer exhibit.



I believe he made about 7 of them, no not a passion....

Banjimer
Banjimer
@greg-gunner
5 years ago
141 posts

I did some quick genealogical research and discovered that Ernest Combs was the son of Fred Combs and Vera Alice Johnson.  He is listed in the 1940 Federal Census for Beaverdam Township in Watauga County, North Carolina.  The families of Frank Proffitt and his father, Wiley Proffitt, were both living in Beaverdam Township in 1940.  However, my preliminary search didn't turn up any connections between Ernest Combs and the Proffitts.  In the bio to which David Bennett provides a link, Combs credits Albert Hash with getting him started with instrument making.  But as David pointed out, he doesn't seem to have been very prolific in building dulcimers. 

David Bennett
David Bennett
@david-bennett
5 years ago
60 posts

The first link says the exhibit features dulcimers made by Ernest Combs. I'm not familiar with this luthier. I could be wrong but from this bio he didn't seem very passionate about dulcimers

https://www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/ernest-combs/

Still there is probably more to the exhibit and either way I am glad they are even doing a dulcimer exhibit.

David Bennett
David Bennett
@david-bennett
5 years ago
60 posts

Dulcimer Exhibit at the Jonesborough Washington County History Museum

Jonesborough, TN  04-29-2019 thru  06-09-2019

http://www.heritageall.org/2019/04/dulcimer-exhibit-at-the-jonesborough-washington-county-history-museum/

https://www.jonesboroughtn.org/index.php/full-calendardp/g-16-604gmasds7k6era99soidi034m_201904291400


updated by @david-bennett: 10/27/19 12:02:25PM