Nashville native Amanda Ewing was between jobs when she decided to pick up the violin again. Then, with time on her hands, she thought it would be fun to have a hand in making her own.
When she started, Amanda didn't know she was the “first” or “only” Black woman in the U.S. working as a luthier. But she was asked how it felt to make history and her curiosity blossomed. Googling, she found it was true.
From never touching a woodworking tool to crafting instruments built to last hundreds of years, Amanda Ewing tells us how an unexpected interest grew into her own passion — and how now she’s just as focused on teaching others as carving and shaping stringed instruments herself.
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