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Goose feather noter
I have been using a noter made from an adult goose flight feather. I...
@Flint Hill 15 years ago - Comments: 4
Cool video: Using an iPhone to view vibrating instrument strings
Video cams with rolling shutters -- those that capture sensor data one...
@Flint Hill 13 years ago - Comments: 4
Please note! Some embedded content in posts did not transfer from old site....
Please read this thread, folks:...
@Strumelia 9 years ago - Comments: 0
Nathan Hicks playing "Pretty Polly" in 1939 - Alternative pre-revival tuning?
Nathan Hicks recorded a version of Pretty Polly with dulcimer...
@Flint Hill 13 years ago - Comments: 18
This should make modes clearer (not)
Here's a chart of the ecclesiastical musical modes that shows the...
@Flint Hill 13 years ago - Comments: 3
What makes the Galax dulcimer so appealing?
Juanita asked:"I'd like to know what makes the Galax so appealing? I...
@Flint Hill 13 years ago - Comments: 3
A Mixolydian Hymn: In Christ There Is No East Or West
Mixolydian hymns are rare almost to the point of nonexistence. "In...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 9
What do you want in a box dulcimer?
Stephen Seifert's Don Neuhauser TMB is really cool. I've made a...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 12
Columbus (Southern Harmony, 1835)
"Columbus", based on Job 23, is a spiritual song about the dark night...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 6
The Cruel War
Also known as The Girl Volunteer, Young Johnny, Johnny Oh Johnny, and...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 23
Converting Grace (Denson #230)
Converting Grace first appeared in the 1860 revision of B.F White's...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 6
The False Nut Upon the Road
I've been fiddling with false nuts, reverse capos, or whatever you...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 13
Wayfaring Stranger
Wayfaring Stranger is a popular Southern US spiritual song. A...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 11
Noter and metal finger picks on a Galax dulcimer -- request for comments.
I'm attaching a ~50-second clip of Wayfaring Stranger and would love to...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 14
Frailing a dulcimer?
Does anybody use frailing-like, banjo-inspired picking on a dulcimer or...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 9
O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
"O bury Me Not", also known as "The Dying Cowboy", starts out...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 9
Little Black Train
Little Black Train is a fire-and-brimstone spiritual song from the...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 5
Pretty Saro in D tuning: What key and mode?
This is a long reply to Julie Elman's question about the key and mode...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 20
Clamanda -- Cooper #42
Flannery O'Connor once said that the American South was not so...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 8
Hallelujah (Denson, 1991 #146)
The collected minutes from Sacred Harp singings in 2005 show that...
@Flint Hill 14 years ago - Comments: 7
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Posted: Wednesday October 9 2019, 8:30 PM
By: @Ken Hulme
By: @Ken Hulme
Musical Traditions Dulcimer circa 1980
Posted: Sunday January 13 2019, 2:30 PM
By: @Ken Longfield
By: @Ken Longfield
Bobby McFerrin: The power of the...
Posted: Saturday October 1 2011, 3:01 PM
By: @Ken Hulme
By: @Ken Hulme
"John the Balladeer" Stories
Posted: Friday October 15 2010, 12:24 AM
By: @razyn
By: @razyn
A Mixolydian "Yankee Doodle"
Posted: Sunday June 27 2010, 9:53 PM
By: @Flint Hill
By: @Flint Hill
Challenges?
Posted: Monday March 29 2010, 4:42 PM
By: @Flint Hill
By: @Flint Hill
Thanksgiving: Old Blue
Posted: Tuesday December 1 2009, 11:46 AM
By: @Flint Hill
By: @Flint Hill
A simple dulcimer or scheitholt with a...
Posted: Thursday October 1 2009, 2:31 PM
By: @Flint Hill
By: @Flint Hill
I'm so glad to see you have made it over to our 'new home', Ken. I hope one day you will post a little more again, share a tune....you are missed!
Thank you Flint, I try playing in other ways, but keep coming back to the old favourite !
I hope that all is well with you?
John
Thanks Flint,It's one of my favorite tunes.Nick
Ken, many thanks!Laura, Mark, and I were at an open jam at a public park lodge and a fellow recorded the jam. It was magical to hear Laura play, most especially on The Blackest Crow and Star of the County Down. As she wrote, we plan to get together to make music-- Mark and I are really looking forward to it. (Laura is a fantastic improvisational player!)
Thanks for the link tutorial, they'll be no stopping me now
Pleased to meet you Ken
Thanks Ken, I'll have a go at 'The Bloody Gardener' tonight then, you'll like that one
Thank you for your comment Ken, it helps to get feedback. I am pleased that you mentioned the pacing, I tried to remember that it is a song, and someone told me a long time ago do'nt try to play an Irish air unless you can sing it. I can't sing these days (my wife would have me believe that I never could, LOL)Best wishesJohn
Thanks for your comment about "Bonny At Morn", Ken! It's been one of my favourite tunes for a long, long time, and I loved playing it on John Henry's TMB. (We just got back to the UK today from a holiday in Canada, so I've only just seen what you wrote.)
Hi Ken,I thought we had done the "friends" thing too !I hope to get some good recordings of my Galax this winter. I'm just pulling together some ideas for tunes and instrument sessions.You should pull together a collective works of the mountain songs you play - they are wonderfully evocative.Robin
Val, my wife read your kind comment and agrees that I should be in a jar of formaldehyde at the Smithsonian.
Thank you sir. Thanks to your kind advice, my photo is now posted, and the rodents are in retreat. TonyK
Thanks Flint,The Pastorale is from 18th Century France. A lot of music for drone instruments (hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe) was writtn in France at that time.I will be recording and posting a lot more over the next few weeks.Nick
Flint Hill! Just 'eavesdropped' your last message to George Beckwith. If I can be of any help with your proposed build let me know; you have helped me quite a bit !!!John
Your fingerpickin' on the dulcimer is more than okay, my friend...it is inspirational!Scooter
I thought we were pals already!.. : )...thx for the link to Shout Little Lulu...that's a good tune f'sure.
Yes, Ken, I'm starting the scale on the open string on 'Boston'. The unison tuning gives it a slightly different sound than DAD, I suppose.
Hi, Ken--My Hensley dulcimer's in bagpipe tuning (Ccc) and that's what I played for "Goin' to Boston".I appreciate your comment and wish I could give a knowledgeable reply to whether there's something "Mixolydian" at work in the B part-- I'd address it if I could.
Thank you for your comment Flint Hill, but I think that it is time to invest in some time with a metronom, and try to get a more 'polished' performance, I manage to get a good finish on the instruments I make, so should make a bit more effort with my playing ?I first saw the noter that you remarked on in the same place as you, it has possibilities, partictularly where a fingerboard may be shallow.Long comment I know, but cannot leave without complimenting you on 'Columbus', very easy listening. Your reference to folk music in connection with this tune 'struck a chord' (yes, all the rest of you, I do know what they are, LOL). I live in Bristol, a place with long connections with the sea, and hence, sea shanties, and Columbus seems to me to fit the term 'work song' well, a long steady haul ect'Thank youJohn
Ken, I don't know whether the Harvest Bells shaped-note hymnal in which "Only Remembered" was seen was widely used or is well-known now. The song is such a good one! Wouldn't it be something to go back in time and hear it at a camp meeting in 1898?!I appreciate your nice comments about the version and I Mark recorded. Mark wanted to cut in some guitar lead work on the break (and it could do with it, especially when I hop on harmony) yet didn't record it earlier so I uploaded the tune anyway.