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Give Shear a Home and Help Send a Musician to Summer Music Camp!
Jewelry Raffle
$5/Ticket
Purchase tickets through the
RMF Office at (610) 376-3395
or at Goggleworks Second Sunday on December 13
DRAWING: JANUARY 15, 2010
Proceeds to provide a summer camp fellowship for 2010
“SHEAR” CLARINET KEY BROOCH - Sterling Silver,
Nickel Silver, Brass, Vintage Clarinet Keys, Epoxy
Resin, Patina. 1.5 x 3.25 x 0.5” Retail Value $400.
Created by Lisa & Scott Cylinder
No playable instruments were harmed to make Shear!
THE STORY OF SHEAR
We began our exploration of musical instruments in 2007. Our daughter, a student clarinetist, piqued our
interest in the instrument. By purchasing old clarinets to refurbish she could “upgrade” her instrument. We
would buy one, fix it up, and if she liked that one better than the one she was currently playing, she would keep
it and we would sell the old instrument. And so the cycle and our self-education began.
Before an orchestra trip abroad, we purchased a real “junker” for our daughter with the intent of her learning
to do repairs on her own. She disassembled the horn, and there it sat for months. We would look at it
occasionally, wondering when she was going to put it back together. It never happened. Instead, we began to
take a serious look at the parts.
The materials, nickel silver, brass, grenadilla wood, were all materials we were already familiar with in our
previous work. The shapes and mechanics were new and fresh and intrigued us. We began to deconstruct and
reconstruct the parts we had from this one instrument. One thing led to another and today we continue to
experiment and explore using clarinets as well as saxophones, oboes, cellos, flutes, etc.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Lisa and Scott Cylinder began collaborating in 1988, shortly after graduating from prominent university
jewelry programs. They have created limited production studio multiples under the auspices of Chickenscratch
for the past 21 years. Ten years into their venture, they craved a greater technical and creative challenge and
began making one-of-a-kind pieces under “L and S Cylinder” in addition to their studio multiples. This jewelry
is more substantial and more serious, both in concept and execution. To view more pieces of their work, visit
their website at www.lisandscottcylinder.com.
MOUNTAIN FOLK, continued from page 2
Foundation, is using his experience, talent and generosity to share folk music with a new generation. His family
recently established the David L. Kline Family Mountain Folk Scholarship fund, which provides private music
study and instrument upgrade scholarships to guitarists and banjoists of any age. In keeping with his longstanding
tradition, students must be committed to American folk music.
“The Mountain Folk Fund has taken a lot of the revenue from the show and channeled it into a fund that will
then be given to students who study any form of acoustic guitar or banjo…the point is, maybe next year, I won’t
be able to do a show anymore. Maybe my life circumstances will change, I don’t know. None of us knows. So if
this is the swan song, then there is going to be something left behind so people can still come to the mountain
in some sense,” said Dave, in a recent issue of Bluegrass magazine.
The Mountain Folk Music Band recently released its seventh CD, Music from the Mountain Folk Homeplace,
which features eight original songs and four lively cover songs.
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