A prized fiddle played by Country Music Hall of Famer Roy Acuff nearly sold to the highest bidder at a Goodwill auction.
Before the fiddle sold, the family who donated it realized they were about to lose an important part of history.
They contacted Goodwill and got the fiddle back.
Now, owner Lamar Peek is sharing the fiddle with everyone.
"It sounded really good man, it did something to me," Gordon Acuff said. "I could feel it inside."
Where family meets music, Acuff finds a fiddle.
"It takes hours and hours and hours to make a violin," Acuff said.
His grandfather, Evert Acuff, spent a lot of his time making fiddles — 36 of them.
"The first thing he'd do, is he'd thump on it, like that," Acuff said. "Thump thump. You know, to see how it sounded."
No. 19 — the fiddle that was almost auctioned earlier this year — was made in Maryville, and Evert gave it to his nephew, Roy Acuff.
Roy played it as part of a career starting in the 1930s, eventually becoming a Country Music Hall of Famer in 1962.
"In Nashville, he was the Grand Ole Opry," Gordon Acuff said.
Starting May 1, Roy Acuff's fiddle will be a part of the Mountain Music Museum's exhibit.
Just this past weekend, its sound filled the room again on The Huckabee Show on the Trinity Broadcast Network.
It's a style and a history Mountain Music Museum Executive Director Rick Dollar hopes to capture in the fiddle's exhibit.
"I hope they look at the history of this fiddle and they see a small part of what Roy Acuff did in his life, and the people he touched," Dollar said.
Now, Acuff's music has a chance to touch people across East Tennessee.
"I thought well, we've moved to Kingsport, we have a new rebirth of what we're doing," Dollar said. "This would be the perfect thing to make this happen."
The museum's making it happen with the fiddle on loan.
"I'm really thrilled that people can come by and see it, but more so, for me, because my granddaddy made it," Acuff said.
Dollar says the Mountain Music Museum doesn't just feature Roy Acuff, but highlights tons of country music's greatest moments.
The museum is on Broad street in Kingsport. You can find out more on the museum's website.