Five months after devastating fire, Guthrie icon Byron Berline is reopening his music store and venue

GUTHRIE — Gleaming violins are neatly arranged on shelves, microphones on stands are clustered on a newly built stage and yellow lettering on the glass doors mark the new home of the Double Stop Fiddle Shop & Music Hall.

“I still have a lot of stuff I haven’t put up here yet, but it’s a process,” said acclaimed fiddler and proprietor Byron Berline, looking at the rows of framed photographs and album covers already on the walls. “It’s a start.”

Adorning the entryway are photos of the February fire that destroyed Berline’s original music store. The charred remains are less than a block west of his new shop.

“That was one of my worst days,” he said. “All those really old 17th-century and 18th-century violins, they can’t be handed down now.”