George Emery (1910-1981)
In Russell Wortley’s archive is some correspondence (dated 1977) with a Mr George Emery, who lived in East Runton, just outside Cromer on the north Norfolk coast.
George and his father were both carpenters, and his uncle had brought a dulcimer for them to repair, around 1922. When his uncle came to pick it up, he told George that if he could play it, he could keep it. George played by ear, together with a friend who played the banjo, He worked as a wood machinist, moving to Erpingham in the 1930s, when the dulcimer ended up in the loft, as first courting and then marriage took over. Nearly 40 years later, when he had moved back to East Runton, George saw a magazine article about the dulcimer and got in touch with Russell Wortley. What happened to the instrument subsequently is not known.
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