Twenty-one-year member Harold Turner traces instrument building in his family back five generations to his Quaker forebears who moved to North Carolina from Maryland. A luthier since 1970, he teaches and demonstrates lutherie at the Hagood Mill Historical Site and Folk Life Center in Pickens County, South Carolina.
▪ bio current as of 2008
1995
AL#41 p.58
Harold Turner
▪ Making business cards out of paltry wood pieces.
1994
AL#38 p.54
Harold Turner
▪ Making a wild looking dulcimer using wood scraps.
1993
AL#35 p.57 BRB3 p.495
Harold Turner
▪ Plate tuning made simple using a stereo satellite speaker and glitter.
1993
AL#33 p.39 BRB3 p.309 read this article
Harold Turner
▪ Turner thinks you might like to try white pine as a tonewood. But you’ll have to harvest it yourself. Here are some suggestions about how to go about it.
1992
AL#32 p.47 BRB3 p.257 read this article
Harold Turner
▪ Build a banjo and scare the congregation, and not with music. Luthier humor, and more good local color. Turner was there when the banjo bomb was invented. A shrinking calf skin head was the culprit.
1990
AL#23 p.60 BRB2 p.484
Elon Howe Harold Turner
▪ Some good uses of Cherry wood, or poor man’s mahogany.