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Just wondering........

I have a question, the answer to which would probably just be speculation, but that's fine.  If Uncle Ed Thomas was born in 1850, and started...
@tonyg started one week ago - replies: 4

Microtonal Fretboard

Found this the other day and I thought I would share. Thoughts about the concept?  https://youtu.be/EZC69A8TsJ8?si=R4dF2XErnDY2Cxht
@Homer Ross started 3 weeks ago - replies: 2

Stephen Winick on Jean

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2015/06/jean-ritchie-1922-2015/
@Robin Thompson started 3 weeks ago - replies: 0

a Balinese gamelan ensemble from U of KY

a group from the University of Kentucky covering Jean's Blue Diamond Mines at the festival Seedtime on the Cumberland:...
@Robin Thompson started 2 months ago - replies: 0

4 versus 3

Hi All, I hope you are well and I wish you a good week. For about the past year, I've been playing almost exclusively on four equidistant strings....
@Alex_Lubet started 2 months ago - replies: 4

Waves by Iris Shiraishi

This piece was composed for me by my wife Iris Shiraishi, who joins me on percussion.  The percussion is optional, but the piece is much better...
@Alex_Lubet started 2 months ago - replies: 2

Troublesome Creek Stringed Instruments dedication

https://youtu.be/uC1FPkVS79c?si=MdY1RBRtqUQJWAn1
@Robin Thompson started 2 months ago - replies: 3

Gunung Singgalang

Hi All, This piece was written for me by one of my former students, Jay Afrisando, who's from Indonesia and uses folk music from his country....
@Alex_Lubet started 2 months ago - replies: 2

Alex Lubet At a Place Far Away

Hi All, I suspect this is pretty unusual, as is everything I do on mountain dulcimer.  It's a fantasy on a Chinese folk song that I composed...
@Alex_Lubet started 3 months ago - replies: 6

An accomplished guitar player on my homemade dulcimer

I had no idea one could get such sounds from this plank. Rocking
@Terry Jaye started 4 months ago - replies: 0