Guitar, Incomplete Red - Ed Stilley

 
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Guitar, Incomplete Red - Ed Stilley
Guitar, Incomplete Red - Ed Stilley
Guitar, Incomplete Red - Ed Stilley
Guitar, Incomplete Red - Ed Stilley

Guitar, Incomplete Red - Ed Stilley

Object numberOSHTL2016.054.01
MediumWood, Paint
Dimensions38 × 14 1/4 × 4 in. (96.5 × 36.2 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from Kelly and Donna Mulhollan
Terms
    DescriptionAn incomplete red guitar with a heart-shaped sound hole that was created by Ed Stilley. The guitar has an open head and Ed's signature phrase, "True Faith, True Light. Have Faith in God." is not present on the guitar body.

    Ed Stilley was born in 1930 in Hogscald Hollow, Arkansas and grew up in a religious household. He married Eliza Miller in 1959, and they had five children. Ed worked as a farmer at his Ozark homestead to support his family and continued his preaching. In 1979, Ed began making musical instruments to give to children. With no formal training Ed made his instruments with simple hand tools, wood scraps, and items such as pot lids, springs, and saw blades. Over the course of twenty-five years Ed has made two-hundred one-of-a-kind instruments including guitars, fiddles, dulcimers, and banjos.
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