Albert Hash was a locally famous fiddler player and luthier. He was the founding member of the Whitetop Mountain Band and was highly influential, both to local musicians and instrument builders. In this interview he discusses his playing history, his first experiences building instruments, as well as recollections about his life and childhood. The last two sections of the interview also include musical selections performed by Hash and the Whitetop Mountain band.
Index of Topics
Part 1
00:15 Parents, wife, children
01:14: machinist in WW2
01:35 School at Cabin Creek
2:06 Wolf Knob School / Mt.Rogers School
3:35 Petition to finish building Mt. Rogers
5:00 Mr. Perkins (teacher at Mt. Rogers)
6:45 Walking route to school
10:30 Mutton Tallow to waterproof boots
12:35 Hard Time / making money
18:33 Courting
19:45 No electricity
21:43 Early Whittling
23:00 Queen Fiddle
27:20 Musical family members
Part 2
00:00 First Playing Gig
01:54 First Fiddle
9:45 Self-Reliance
10:35 Medicine / remedies
16:45 Pine Hole
17:30 Logging
20:00 Covered Wagon Trip
22:50 Early Cars
23:25 Fiddle Lessons
24:40 Fiddler's Conventions
25:25 Machinist occupation
26:45 People who bought fiddles
28:15 Modern Country
Part 3
"Alabama Gals" - banjo
"Redwing" - banjo
"Old Jimmy Sutton" - banjo
5:39 Whitetop festival
7:50 Whitetop festival winners
8:50 Dancers
10:10 G.B. Grayson / Whitter
11:50 Whitetop festival moving to Galax
13:20 paying doctor bill with fiddle
18:00 Library of congress recording
22:06 Death of Grandfather from Asthma
Part 4
"Johnson Boys"
"Arkansas Traveller"
"Soldier's Joy"
5:55
"Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss"
"Johnson Boys"
"Cindy"
10:20
"Katy Cline"
"Cripple Creek"
Part 5
"Poor Ellen Smith"
"Cluck Old Hen"
"Old Jimmy Sutton"
"Shortening Bread"
- Albert Hash Obituary
A newspaper clipping announcing Hash's death.
