My name is Jon Norris. I live in Holly Springs, North Carolina, with my wife Melanie and my sons Jack and Charlie. For the majority of my life, I've been involved one way or another with both art and music. Those two interests, combined with my drive to create, have led me to my true passion — creating musical instruments. I build musical instruments inspired by tradition: Native American style flutes, Delta blues style cigar box guitars, kalimbas and more. My mission is to create handcrafted, affordable, high quality instruments that you can use to express the songs in your heart. I believe, as is inscribed on an opera house in Germany, "God gave us music that we might pray without words."