I love playing lap dulcimer, banjo, epinette, pennywhistle, Cretan Lyra, bones, limberjacks....mostly play old-time tunes, minstrel era tunes, and medieval tunes..
Love my fiddling husband, contra dancing, and playing with our cats. And my honeybees. :)
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My Blog on playing traditional style Noter/Drone style mountain dulcimer, including over 30 FREE noter style TABS and video instructions:
Strumelia's Noter Drone dulcimer BLOG
I also run a site for selling music-themed t-shirts: https://harmonias.com/
And a site for penny whistle players: https://pennywhistleclub.com/
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Hi Strumelia,
I'm not sure where the best place to post this is.
I'm going to be buying my first Dulcimer soon and am looking around. I'm a trained musician but new to Dulcimer. I think I want to get a baritone as I plan mostly singer/songwriter stuff. Do you have any recommendations on models, and beginning?
Also, I have a particular limitation - I don't have a ring finger anymore - do you think I could adapt with my other fingers? I tried a dulcimer yesterday and wasn't sure if there would be too much strain on my wrist to adjust to other fingers, l leading to carpal tunnel Thoughts?
thanks!
Thanks! Sorry for the delay in responding. I need to get online more often. There is so much on this site.
Thank you Strumelia! I'm excited to be part of the Mountain Dulcimer family. I found the links you sent me very informative. I'm learning my way around FOTMD and will try to post some pictures. Looking forward to staying in touch!
Hi Strumelia!
I've enjoyed your posts during my time lurking.
I'm a pretty good dulcimer player, but I've come to computers late and get confused easily. Please accept my apologies in advance if I don't answer or make mistakes.
Thank you very much. This feels like coming home again after having been gone a while.
I want to comment back to Strumella but I am not sure whether to do it here or on her page. Anyway, thanks for the comment. It sounds pretty good also but I haven't figured out how to post audio here yet. (I decided to post my comment in both places._
BY the way, play guitar banjo, mandolin and mountain dulcimer. And I keep bees also. Sweet.
It's not much, Lisa, but I so appreciate you hosting this forum, your helpful comments and responses, and your great teaching videos.
thanks,
for it to resurface again, I was hoping maybe there was a way - maybe someone at that time had downloaded it.
no worries,
m.
Hi
On the Home page, right below your posting today was an oder download from a new member @tatts - but from '14
( ( Liked a group discussions item created by @john-astor : Free Fingerpicking Album to download for all!)
Can I still download this, I get an error. Any clues or any other way that you know of?
Hope you are well, I did have a few players come play music on my porch last Saturday.
thanks for all you do,
marg
My email address hasn't changed for 20 years. Must be working because I got a notification today in my email!
Hallo Strumelia,
es freut mich sehr,dass Du mein Clip angeschaut hast.
Vielen Dank für Dein +
Hi Strumelia, Ithink I upgraded my email. Please re-send your comments to see if they come through. Thanks, Delcinina
I hope this is the right box to comment in? Yes Strumelia I saw your comment, thanks. It just seems that when I want to ask a question in the dulcimer builders group, there's no comment box or 'Post new question' type box.
Nige
Morning,
Listening to some of the recent videos & audio recordings this morning before I get ready to go preform at a Senior Tea, I was thinking how beautiful some are.
Had you ever thought of putting some on a CD as a fund raiser? The members already have them recorded, with permission there could be a good number ready to go.
I'm sure many with FOTMD would love to have a collection of dulcimer music from people they know, our members.
Just a thought, something we all would enjoy & a way to help $$ toward FOTMD
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll maybe tweak the review a bit and then post it to that group.
CHeers
As the app is not mine, and I have no way of knowing what revenues are generated, I have deleted the post. Thanks for your quick response.
Cheers