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“Country Radio” provides a sense of heartsick nostalgia over a hopeful chorus of stringed instruments.

Robert Hilton, a retired art teacher with an interest in African and Indian music, would wander over with a lute-like stringed instrument, or one of his other homemade instruments, to provide the entertainment.

As she experiments between strumming up and down, the forceful strike gives the stringed instrument a more percussive feel.

You wouldn't think about recovering drug addicts making stringed instruments in Appalachia.

Other works going under the hammer include the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.