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@dusty
• 2 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Alex, the "reverse" tuning of a strumstick relative to a dulcimer does not impede the playing of exactly the same music note-for-note. It is merely an issue..."
@dusty
• 3 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Box Dulcimer Project":
Posted a response to "Box Dulcimer Project":
"That's a laudable effort, Richard. Thank you. For many years David Lynch made a student model dulcimer that sold for around that same price point ($125)...."
@dusty
• 3 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Alex, most strumsticks are tuned like dulcimers but with the bass and melody string reversed, so the bass string is on the top if held as a guitar or closest..."
@dusty
• 3 days ago
• comments: 3
Posted a new Comment on Moon and Clouds:
Posted a new Comment on Moon and Clouds:
"Such sensitive playing! Beautiful tune. Parts of it have a medieval feel."
@dusty
• 5 days ago
• comments: 5
Posted a new Comment on All in a Garden Green:
Posted a new Comment on All in a Garden Green:
"What a fun rendition of this Playford tune. Nice job!"
@dusty
• one week ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Does anyone remember the maker, or instrument name?":
Posted a response to "Does anyone remember the maker, or instrument name?":
"I bought a nylon-string dulcimer from Bob Stephens exactly 2 years ago. It is all wood, however, not one of his 3-D printed ones (figured cherry body, port..."
@dusty
• one week ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Does anyone remember the maker, or instrument name?":
Posted a response to "Does anyone remember the maker, or instrument name?":
"I think @Robin-Thompson was correct about everything. Here is the DPN article by @Butch-Ross about Stephens Lutherie using a 3-D printer to build dulcimers,..."
@dusty
• one week ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Does anyone remember the maker, or instrument name?":
Posted a response to "Does anyone remember the maker, or instrument name?":
"I think I remember this, too. The guy was active around the time I had first discovered dulcimers, so it wasn't in the 80s or 90s, nor was it last year in..."
@dusty
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "tremolo":
Posted a response to "tremolo":
"Here's a demonstration by one of the best living mandolin players:"
@dusty
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "tremolo":
Posted a response to "tremolo":
"Jon, I assume (since you mention the mandolin) that you are referring to the flatpicking practice of going back-and-forth across a string really fast. There..."

