Hiram Stamper Glory in the Meeting House

Hiram Stamper playing Glory in the Meeting House ,1985 he is 91 or 92 years young here.

[@pastormikespage]

Hiram is my great uncle. His wife , Martha, was my grandpa George W. Kelly’s sister. My father was Hansford Kelly. I went to stay at Hiram and Martha’s house at about the time of this video. Art and Charles were both there and they all played music all night long. It is one of my favorite memories. I was a teenager and Art gave me a cd that I still have today.

[@brucegreene5006]

For what it is worth, he called it Glory To the Meeting House.

[@paullebon323]

I'd kill a man to hear him play Sally Goodin' one more time.

[@chucknaill]

Thank you for a rare look at Mr. Stamper.

[@bentleyfam1373]

Thanks for sharing. He is my great uncle.

[@hayleyheuermann9439]

That's my great grandpa❤

[@timmystamper3164]

that's my grandpa

[@lilodickerson1781]

What happen to the Sally Goodin' video?

[@gunnerstamper2210]

I am related to him

[@fredtarr6919]

must be Art's dad. playing here. really fine tuning allows some wonderful tone

[@ladyj7876]

Yes that is my grandpa. Art my dad’s father. He passed away a few weeks before his hundredth birthday. He used to tell stories about when he was in Paris during World War I around 1918. How the ladies would gather around him while he played the fiddle. Grandpa had that story on repeat.

[@ezekielsmukler2903]

I've also heard of a late fiddle named Art Stamper.

[@shellyrat]

That was his son. He also has another son that is still living and also a great fiddler his name is charles

[@ezekielsmukler2903]

I liked the Hiram Stamper KZbin video and have been looking for a KZbin video of his other son, Charles. But I couldn't find one. I wanted to hear him and have heard Art Stamper on the radio a long time ago.

[@fredtarr6919]

never heard charles play. (yet)where is Charles now? Art sorely missed. I think they named a street in or near Hindman Ky for Art. I was lucky enough to be around Art and hear him play and visit with him when I was in vocal week taking courses at Augusta heritage Center, Elkins, WV. I used to sneak outta standup mtg. for vocal week, made the coordinator mad and run to hear the after lunch Old Time programs below the dining hall . heard many a fine fiddler below the dining hall. have a lotta stories to tell about what I learned watching all the fellas play, many are passed by now.

[@pwnttothemax]

my name is Clayton Curtis Stamper. my father is Roderick and my grandfather is Curtis Stamper. I know my dad inherited an old dulcimer from someone. I'm from southern Ohio. could we be relatives?

[@fredtarr6919]

well, you could be, there is a young student now a professional fiddler who did a ground breaking study in a thesis style of a lot of Ky old time musician, mainly fiddlers . Gerry at Augusta knows her and I think she was once Gerry's student.I think she completed her study sometime around 2010. To my humble usually sometimes misdirected focus, I have a namea of a woman who taught and played old time music and wrote songs from around southern ohio and the name jusr went south on me. I'll have to look at my notes/ she was especially well traveled and taught at Augusta in workshops and her and a well known banjo player whose name just went north on me had workshops in her home in summers. her name was Gail Hatton and his was Dwight Dillar(d) if anyone would know of the name Stamper in tri state they would know.

[@brendawiggins6405]

That is my great uncle also. Proud of the Stamper heritage

[@johnnielson7676]

@@brendawiggins6405 as well you should be proud. What a family tradition to be part of!