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Harold Chriscoe Appreciation Day
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November 8, 2015 date of celebration

Trinity Wesleyan Church
3224 Trinity Church Rd,
Seagrove, NC 27341


By Sandy Hatley
Special to The Courier-Tribune

SEAGROVE — When you have physical ailments, you seek the advice of a specialist. When acoustic musicians experience problems with their instruments, they pursue a professional repairman.

Harold Chriscoe of Seagrove is the instrument doctor that many have sought.

Trent Callicutt of Asheboro, a former banjo player with Kenny and Amanda Smith, described his relationship with Chriscoe.

“I was 12 years old when I first met Harold. I had just started learning how to play the banjo. My daddy called to see if he could take a look at my (Sears) Silvertone. When asked what time to be there, he quickly replied, come at 6 o’clock because that’s when ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ goes off. I’ve never forgotten that. I’ve been going to him for instrument work ever since.”

Chriscoe, 78, started repairing musical instruments at an early age.

“I started doing a little before I ever left home when I was around 18 years old. I just started piddlin’. I bought an old banjo for 50 cents from Walter Garner with the neck broke off. I made a neck and put in it. That was my first one.”

After working on his first instrument, it became a hobby and later a profession. Though employed for years as a fixer for Klopman Mills, his love for music eventually won out and Chriscoe started repairing and eventually building his own musical instruments full time.

Callicutt praised his workmanship.

“Harold is a master at what he does and can work on just about any instrument. He’s one of the most talented men I’ve had the privilege of being around. There’s nothing I enjoy more than sitting in that little shop of his and watching him work. “

Many local musicians and professionals have driven the back country roads of the Erect Community to visit his workshop behind his home on Trinity Church Road.