Edd Pressnell Hourglass Mountain 1975

A really great dulcimer! This lovely instrument was made in 1975. Edd Presnell was raised in a musical family and community near Beech Mountain, North Carolina. ED was particularly interested in woodworking. He first heard a dulcimer when his future wife, Nettie Hicks, came by with an instrument her father, Ben, built. “I was 15 or 16,” Presnell recalled, “and Nettie brought the dulcimer over and played it.” With help from his future father-in-law, Presnell made his first dulcimer in 1936. Between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s, Presnell made more than 1,100 dulcimers. He and Nettie received the Brown-Hudson Folklore Award in 1974 for dulcimer making and woodcarving.  Edd Presnell’s instruments are coveted by dulcimer enthusiasts and folklorists around the globe. It’s easy to see why, it looks, sounds and plays great! That’s not surprising, given the length of time he built them. He knew what he was doing! There is light play wear present and is in fine shape. The end piece has a tall extension and the strings run thru it, between the nails and the bridge. A chunk of that extension has broken off. It doesn’t affect anything as the extension wasn’t really necessary to begin with. This instrument is in very good condition and comes with a gig bag.

• Made in Avery County, NC by Edd Pressnell in 1975
• Solid flame maple top and back
• Solid walnut sides, neck and tuning pegs
• 29″ scale length (VSL)
• 1 1/4″ nut width
• D-A-D tuning (3-string)
• Gig bag