the gratification is not instant. reporter: opposite of drugs beard opposite of drugs. you have to commit a lot of labor-intensive hours to building a guitar. reporter: since 2012, more than 200 recovering drug addicts have come through this program. they have built hundreds of string instruments sold to music stores across the country. the program s success rate? 71%. you know, 71% success rate is also a 29% failure rate. not everyone can succeed. some people are just not able to break free. >speak we have to stamp this. reporter: smith has rebuilt his life here, clean for the last five years. everybody deserves a second chance, and all of us that got a second chance have turned our lives around. i want to fly like a bird reporter: a guitar shop, stringing together stories of hope.
The Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival program will host the Cooperstown Quartet, a string and chamber music quartet, on Feb. 17 at East Carolina University’s A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall from
they are categorized by the upstairs being all string instruments of every type. downstairs is just every kind of percussion instrument. the oldest instrument in this store is probably 1,000 years old if not more. from japan it s called the wagon. somebody hired us to make a solid body electric tambora. it s an indian drone instrument that requires gluing together pieces of wood into the shape and then actually cutting them into this stonelike through-dimentional shape. there are customer who s buy things and customers who buy things and customers who are looking to find some respite from the outside world. so we have a lot of people who come in and jam. everybody who ever comes here, it makes it special.
Germany is the biggest market for Musical Instruments, where number of musical instruments are sold along with accessories and spare parts. India is among.