Ken Longfield

6/29/26 Hi, Ken. Good to hear from you again. I appreciate all your interest in the roots of the mountain dulcimer. If you clicked on www.DulcimerMusic.Net on this site, it is not "live" (in blue). Just go to your search engine and put the above link at the top, hit your return button and it comes up. No problem for me to get it doing that. Like many websites it's not up-to-date, but there is a lot of information on it. Have a happy visit. Lois 

6/29/26 Hi, Ken. Good to hear from you again. I appreciate all your interest in the roots of the mountain dulcimer. If you clicked on www.DulcimerMusic.Net on this site, it is not "live" (in blue). Just go to your search engine and put the above link at the top, hit your return button and it comes up. No problem for me to get it doing that. Like many websites it's not up-to-date, but there is a lot of information on it. Have a happy visit. Lois 

Thank you, Ken!

Thank you, Ken! It is great feeling to be back among the FOTMD Tribe! 

Thank you Ken!
This forum looks like it has much information. I am so eager to learn.

Thank you for the welcome! I am really looking forward to making progress with the help of this community!

Deb

Thank you for welcoming me to the site, Ken. I've played guitar and clawhammer banjo for years, so the beginner-friendly aspects of mountain dulcimer have come easily; I'm here to make sure I learn the fundamentals correctly, progress to the intermediate skill level, and learn more of the culture.

Thanks again!

Ryan

Hi Ken, 

I appreciate the welcome. 

As a beginner I am going to use the D A dd tuning. 

Good eye!  Yes it's a Keith Young.  My father has the history of the collection and we're doing knowledge transfer now.  I can ask him tomorrow.

My parents were in an old time string band from the 80s through 2010. Started a band in Bowie, MD and became the Twin Hill String Band in WI. 

I'm really looking forward to getting her teaching materials out to the public but it's a long process.  Will totally be worth the effort!!

Hi, Ken!  Thank you for the welcome.

My mother was a dulcimer teacher and collected Keith Young instruments.  She had a couple of Bill Berg's as well. I'm in the process of digitizing her lesson books and getting back into playing.  My niece is interested as well.  😊

My goal is to play this one with my niece.

Hi Ken,

Thanks so much for the warm welcome! I love that you have one of my great uncles dulcimers! That is so wonderful to hear.
It’s true… I have so many memories of Sunhearth, especially the Fourth of July festival. Since my birthday is close to the Fourth of July, when I was young, very young,I always assumed that the festival, the fireworks, everything was for me!
But first a quick quiz… Does anyone know the myth of how the first Fourth of July Sunhearth Folk festival began?

Also, please let me know the best forum for me to place these memories. I would hate to clog up the wrong space on the site!

Lara

Thanks for the welcome, Ken.

Fred

Ken,

Yeah, I'm not going for even close to hi-gloss.  Besides just hanging on the wall for a long time now [Elaine passed away yr-n-a-half ago], I think the modest amount of polymerized tung oil I put on it in '88 soaked into the porous red elm in particular, so it was downright 'dull'.  Just want to further fill the pores in the wood and make it look like it has 'some' finish to it.

Gary

Thanks Ken :) Having a look around – pleased to be here.

Todd, it depends on which model it is. If it is one of his student dulcimers, I think that is rather high since they originally sold for $125. For one of his regular instruments that would be a good price.

Ken

"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."

Hi Ken, I had to be away for some time. I appreciated your help here. I noted a David Lynch 4 stringer on Ebay today for around 250.00 . Is that a decent price ?

 Many warm thanks, Todd

Thank you for the lovely welcome.  I am intinated by learning the dulcimer and proper terminology.  Tuning DAA & DAD is challenging on the old used dulcimer.

Thank you for the welcome! I'm happy to be here

Thank you for the kind and warm welcome!  

I have a dulcimer with .5, 1.5, and 6.5 frets, and I'm looking to find some direction on how to get the songs I love onto my dulcimer!

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the welcome to the forum and for the tip on the TTAD zoom group.  I joined up with that forum as well and may join into the zoom group at some point but have been pretty busy during the week.  I may follow along with the song recommendations each week though as some loose guidance on songs to work on.  

~John