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- Identifier:
- 4224.JohnstonAlan.AudioInt.4.14.16
- Title:
- Oral history of Alan "Cathead" Johnston
- Date:
- 2016-04-14
- Creator:
- Johnston, Alan
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Fiddling, Street, Mel, Stringed instruments, Country music, McCoury, Del, 1939-, Goins, Melvin, 1933-, Country music radio stations, Folk music--West Virginia, Old-time music, Fiddle tunes, Banjo, and Bluegrass music
- Location:
- McDowell County (W. Va.) and Welch (W. Va.)
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- Identifier:
- 4224.RizettaSam.AudioInt.7.19.16
- Title:
- Oral history of Sam Rizzetta
- Date:
- 2016-07-19
- Creator:
- Rizzetta, Sam
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Musical instruments, Dulcimer, Augusta Heritage Center, Davis and Elkins College, and Stringed instruments
- Location:
- Inwood (W. Va.)
![["Sam Rizzetta is a dulcimer designer, builder, and musician who moved to West Virginia in the early 1970s. He was a member of the string band Trapezoid and founded the hammer dulcimer playing classes at the Augusta Heritage Center at Davis & Elkins College. He has built dulcimers for musicians including John McCutcheon, Guy Carawan, and Sam Herrmann. Rizzetta now collaborates with the Dusty Strings Company who build hammer dulcimers based on his designs. He lives with his wife Carrie Rizzetta in Berkeley County, WV."]](/thumb/4224RizettaSamIntTranscript71916 "Transcript of oral history of Sam Rizzetta")
- Identifier:
- 4224.RizettaSam.IntTranscript.7.19.16
- Title:
- Transcript of oral history of Sam Rizzetta
- Date:
- 2016-07-19
- Creator:
- Rizzetta, Sam
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Dulcimer, Musical instruments, Stringed instruments, and Rizzetta, Sam
- Location:
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) and Inwood (W. Va.)
