Jean and Lee Schilling share with visitors a world class-class knowledge of old-time mountain folk heritage and dulcimer traditions. Their folk-oriented instruments, handcrafted locally and regionally, include fretted dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, and psalteries, either finished or as build-yourself kits.
Mountain MusiCrafts is housed in a 110 year old mountain cabin which originally stood within what is the Cosby Campground of the Great Smoky Mountains Nation Park,. Moved to its present site in the 1930's, it was lived in, the used to bottle moonshine before taking on its present role thirty years ago. It is a great shop for browsing, featuring authentic recordings, video cassettes, cases, accessories, instruments-builders' supplies, song books, how-to-play books, wooden folk toys, and fine woodcrafts, all by local and regional craftspeople. First-time visitors often say, "This is the sort of shop we were hoping to find when we came to the Smokies".
Joins us June 15-16th, 2001, at the 25th Annual Cosby Dulcimer and Harp Convention, on the grounds, at Mountains MusiCrafts in Cosby, Tennessee.