The Homer Ledford Papers document his career as a musician and as a luthier. His luthier activities are documented with sketches and designs for some of his instruments, photographs, news clippings, contracts and correspondence, an inventory of instruments he owned and two ledgers documenting sales of his numbered instruments (note that the first ledger with instruments 1-2396 were not included with this donation).

Ledford was a talented musician and played many instruments solo and with the Cabin Creek Band which he organized in 1967. The collection includes contracts, correspondence, news clippings, program and audio recordings from his musical activities.

This collection should be used in conjunction with the Homer Ledford Instrument Photographs, the Ledford vertical file and his biography--Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford by R. Gerald Alvey.