By: Karl Torp
GUTHRIE, Oklahoma -
Musician Byron Berline has been reunited with another instrument damaged in the February 2019 fire that destroyed his fiddle shop.
“Four hundred and something fiddles were lost. You start thinking about it and it really get you down,” Berline said.
Since the fire, every instrument that can be salvaged and repaired is celebrated.
The latest is a pre-war Martin guitar that Berline got at a music festival in California more than 25 years ago.
“That feel and that tone, it just rumbles,” said Berline about the instrument.
The fire badly damaged the guitar that was kept inside a gun safe.