Charles Horner Violin to be in East Tennessee Historical Museum

Mr. Horner generously built and donated a very special violin to be displayed in the East Tennessee Museum.

This wonderful instrument features the rarest of the rare, red spruce from the Great Smoky Mountains and flamed maple from the beautiful Cumberland Plateau. The exceedingly tight grained spruce was sourced by luthier and tone-wood expert, John Arnold (pictured beside Mr Horner) from Newport after Hurricane Opal brought the 400 plus year old ancient giant down near New Found Gap.

Pictured to the right is the late Ted Davis. Mr. Davis is responsible for encouraging John to source red spruce from the Southern Applachians. He is pictured here in 1995 during the cutting and quartering process of the ancient spruce used in this exceptional violin.

Michele MacDonald, the museium curator, received the violin from Mr Horner on stage before Horner's Fiddle Shop band performed.