Stradivari in the Cumberlands: A Requiem

Stradivari in the Cumberlands: A Requiem

This story takes you to Westel, Tennessee, home to the fiddle maker Jean Horner. For more than seventy years, Horner built instruments that traveled across the country—Carnegie Hall to California, the Grand Ole Opry to the Smithsonian. Two factors shaped Horner’s fiddles: his deep roots in the Cumberland Plateau, and his fascination with great Italian violin makers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Horner died this past January at age 91, an ackno…