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Does it count that I used to play the bodhran but do to hand problems I don't pick it up anymore. I do have a plucked psaltery with a lovely wire strung harp sound to it as it's a big instrument. At the moment though it's living in down in Warrensburg, MO with my brother. I know one of these days I'll get it back. And other than things that make noise when shaken, the MD and HD are the only two instruments I play. Well the HD, I fool around with on occasion. I'll be honest.
As a finger dancer which is a melody drone style as is the noter/drone, I play only 3 strings. It's just simpler to work with for me. I even had my last dulcimer made for just 3 strings. If I went 4 strings on an instrument it would be on the middle or bass line for an added drone tone as a CcGG or CGgG.
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No problem, Just hit the delete button. The magic of cyberspace. Strumelia said:
OK, so who's gonna help with the after-party mess ...??
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Sounds yummy. Good luck with the cucumbers. I never seem to have any luck with veggies, so haven't ordered any seeds for anything really interesting like your "White Wonder". Tomatoes don't even do well for me. Strumelia said:
Folkfan, I ordered some 'White Wonder' type cucumbers seeds for my garden, very mild and a white color. The seed catalog suggested the following recipe, but I haven't tried it yet! It sounds really good, and I might add a touch of lemon juice:
{{{Lebanese style: slice two small White Wonders paper thin. Add 1 cup yogurt, a pinch of salt and chopped mint leaves to taste. Chill for one hour but serve at room temperature.}}}
I googled 'Lebanese cucumber yogurt', and here are many other variations:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=Lebanese+cucumber+...
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Strumelia, If you don't mind sharing, I would love to get your cucumber/yogurt salad recipe. You could post it over on the Kitchen Sink Discussion that Ken's started. Eat more yogurt, Yah, Yah, Yah!!! Thanks Strumelia said:
Dick, that video is too funny! She's a good dancer, for sure!
Rod, I'm making my healthy non-fat cucumber and yogurt salad right now- gotta balance those cookies and mountain dew somehow.This suggests we actually have a chance to hit 1000 by our first year FOTMD anniversary at the end of July. Wow
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John Henry, Bring your cheese please. Don't bring processed cheese slices. It isn't the type of cheese that the was the problem with my experience with stinky cheese. But rather it is a story of a cheese that had gone bad, really bad.On a car trip my dad had somehow gotten hold of a wax covered chunk of colby longhorn cheese. A cheese I normally love, but after sitting in the hot car unrefrigerated, it was RIPE. For some reason he thought that it would keep unopened. It just didn't. Both it and the family were turning green by the time we got to Yellowstone when he finally tossed it out. There was a bear near by and it was approaching the car, so he slowed down, cracked open the window and tossed it like a football. DUMB, but sort of a typical tourist type of stunt. The bear came over to the cheese, sniffed, turned up it's nose and waddled away. Who'd have though that food would be a bear deterrent. Or maybe this was just an extra smart bear.It took me awhile before I could eat colby cheese again. Actually quite awhile.
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I hope Kendra doesn't mind if I borrow her clothes pin for my nose if you all are going to be doing a lot of sticky cheese. I've got a story about sticky cheese that to this day when I think about it, I want to open the windows.
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Sorry about the mistake on smoking vs grilling for the chipolte. I had someone take the ripe jalepeno and slow grill them over a smoky fire and they called them chipolte afterwards.And I wouldn't call a wax bean a butter bean as to me a butter bean is a lima bean not like the yellowish string bean that I've always called wax beans. I wonder if this is a regional difference.Butter beans to me are the large, flat lima beans that are white in color rather than the smaller green variety of lima that we call baby limas.Interesting how names even in the same country can be different. Ken Hulme said:
Ok John. You've gotten the start of an American culinary vocabulary now that we've cleared up Garbanzos for you. You also know that Anchos are dried Poblano peppers, both of which have more flavor but almost no more heat than an ordinary bell pepper. And a Chipotle is a ripe and smoked (not grilled as someone said) Jalapeo pepper. Oh yes - and Wax beans are like green beans but more subtle flavor, and they are sometimes called string beans or butter beans.
Pepper have confusing names because they change name often, when dried - like Poblano/Ancho and jalapeo/chipotle. Poblanos/Anchos are very mild - often hardly warmer than a green or red bell pepper. Another mild dried pepper is the Chile Negro and Chile Mulatto. Soaking a dried pepper for 20 minutes in warm water brings them back to life. Chipotles are definately spicy. You quite often find them canned "en adobo sauce" which is a decidedly spicy tomato sauce.
Here's one you may or may not know - the salad green you call Rocket we call Arugula! Took me forever to figure out what Jamie Oliver was nattering on about!
The UK and the US - two countries divided by a common language!
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wax beans look like a yellowish green bean. John Henry said:
Thank you folkfan,chick peas is all I've ever known em as! Wax beans...................? I really should get out more LOL JohnH
folkfan said:Garbanzo are also called Chick peas. They are the main ingredient in all the falafels I've ever had and frequently used in bean salads with green beans, wax beans, kidney beans and onion. Round, creamy colored with a size that is larger than a green pea.
Ancho are the dried form of the poblano peppers which are usually a mild sweet chili pepper. Though as I understand they can fool you sometimes as to their heat factor.
And chipotle are grilled jalapenos. They give a smoky heat to a dish.
Ken will probably be able to give us the exact heat factor each chili brings to the dish. All I know is that though I love spicy dishes these peppers are completely off my list for ingredients. Anything hot doesn't got into my pot anymore. DARN That's why I'm glad Ken is making this dish for a cyber party, as I'll be able to enjoy the thought of it, and not actually have it in front of me as a temptation. ;-)
John Henry said:Ok, culture gap showing! Again! what are 'garbanzos', and 'ancho' chillies please? sorry Ken, but I like to cook, but have never heard of those two ingredients!
JohnH Ken Hulme said:I made a fabulous but different Meat & Beans dish (not Chili - Chili has no beans!) the other day and this is the perfect excuse to make more. I used dried garbanzos, a seared for flavor then diced ham steak, onion, a couple of ancho chiles for flavor, a couple sticks of celery, a can of diced tomatoes, and half broth/half water to simmer everything in. For spices, a little cinnamon, salt & pepper, basil, rosemary & thyme from the garden, and a sprinkle of chipotle for a little smokiness and heat.
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Garbanzo are also called Chick peas. They are the main ingredient in all the falafels I've ever had and frequently used in bean salads with green beans, wax beans, kidney beans and onion. Round, creamy colored with a size that is larger than a green pea.Ancho are the dried form of the poblano peppers which are usually a mild sweet chili pepper. Though as I understand they can fool you sometimes as to their heat factor.And chipotle are grilled jalapenos. They give a smoky heat to a dish.Ken will probably be able to give us the exact heat factor each chili brings to the dish. All I know is that though I love spicy dishes these peppers are completely off my list for ingredients. Anything hot doesn't got into my pot anymore. DARN That's why I'm glad Ken is making this dish for a cyber party, as I'll be able to enjoy the thought of it, and not actually have it in front of me as a temptation. ;-) John Henry said:
Ok, culture gap showing! Again! what are 'garbanzos', and 'ancho' chillies please? sorry Ken, but I like to cook, but have never heard of those two ingredients!
JohnH Ken Hulme said:I made a fabulous but different Meat & Beans dish (not Chili - Chili has no beans!) the other day and this is the perfect excuse to make more. I used dried garbanzos, a seared for flavor then diced ham steak, onion, a couple of ancho chiles for flavor, a couple sticks of celery, a can of diced tomatoes, and half broth/half water to simmer everything in. For spices, a little cinnamon, salt & pepper, basil, rosemary & thyme from the garden, and a sprinkle of chipotle for a little smokiness and heat.
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Well to cool the throat from the heat that Ken is bringing, I'll bring a creamy dessert with a layer of raspberries mixed in jello, whipped cream, and more raspberries in jello on top. Oh, I forgot the bottom of the pan is covered with tea biscuits and those are stacked through the dish and form a top crust. Each slice is topped with more whipped cream. Can you ever get too much whipped cream? This dish is also good with a pumpkin mousse type of filling.
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No, no voting, just sort of a play around, where one person starts with a tune and then the next person to come along picks it up until everyone who wants to play that tune has shared the version they do. It's not a contest so much as a group sharing. Bobby Ratliff said:
I really like the sound of this, as it sounds fun and challenging both. A couple things I'd like to re-mention, is I think anytime we challenge ourselves it helps us get better... and it's always refreshing to hear someone else play the same song, because we learn more that way.
And, as someone else said or come close to saying..... I would be all for this, so long as we didn't do any voting as to WHO did the best job on said song.
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It sounds as if it would fit into the Group category. A group whose main purpose is to have those involved play a tune and then ask "So how do you play it?" not as a contest, just as a general sharing of music. A "Play it again, Sam" group. If it was in the general posts then it would need it's own category to keep from being lost in other discussions. Sounds like an interesting idea.
Do You Have A Favorite Irish Song?
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I can't really imagine slowing "The Little Beggerman" down, but I'm sort of set in my ways having heard it played and sung like this: for so many decades (DECADES????????????) Oh well. :-) Paul Elliot Bostick said:
Song speed. I can play Begger Man fast, I learned from the Arlo version. Later I was playing at a camper rally and a guitar player asked me why I played everthing so fast, I just leared it that way. Over time I worked on slowing things down and found I can play a slow bluesy tempo to a lot of fast paced songs. It makes for something different and helps me learn the fast ones by working at a slower place. Little Begger man slowed down is one I really enjoy playing.
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Great story. It's marvelous that you were able to get the mementos back to the lady in England. That's sweet and truly brings a "tear to the e'e". Paul Elliot Bostick said:
Littler Beggar Man and how things crossed the Pond.
During the 70's I was in Mississippi visiting my grandmother, mom and I went junk shop browsing. In the shop I found a portable letter writing box, it's wood with two front door that open up to show all kinds of small nooks and crannies and such. I was told it came in from a shipment from England, so I bought it. After getting back to my grandmothers house I realize that when you tilted it there was something moving around in the bottom of it. Unknown to me (and apparently everyone else) there is a small slide out drawer that had become stuck. When I finally got it open, I found it was packed full of all kinds of wonderful things like a piano tuning receipt from the late 1800,s, letters, a glass plate photo negative, and report cards from two girls during the 1940s. There were many references to a small town on the coast of southern England. I never really had a way of following up on the information before the internet so it slid by. Several years later, I had picked up a dulcimer. I play by ear and was trying to pick up the tune Red Haired Boy from an Arlo Guthrie album, (the fact that Arlo does not annunciate clearly when he is singing fast did not help). I wrote a note to Dulcimer Player news about my need for the words. Sometime later, I got a message from a gentleman in England who advised me that he knew the song as Little Beggerman and he provided the lyrics that he knew of. It also turned out that he lived a few miles down the road from the little sea side town mentioned in my letterbox letters. I wrote him and asked that if he was ever down the road could he stop into the local newspaper/or provide me the address. He did both, as well as relaying my story to the paper that then ran a story. I was then contacted by an elderly lady from the seaside town who advised: The letter box had belonged to her mother. The report cards were hers and her sisters (she said the sister died very young from an illness and she had very few mementos of her). The box had been sold as part of the mothers estate; no one knew there was a drawer or what was in it. I made copies of all the material and then sent the originals to her. She did send me a copy of the local paper that had done a follow story about the little letter box and its trip across the pond. So now, every time I play Little Beggerman I remember my box, the letters, and the story behind it.
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Little Beggerman is a good song, though a bit fast for me. I'd love hearing it and have since the Clancys and Tommy Makem started recording. Though I'm still fairly computer illiterate, I was library literate when it came to borrowing song books and xeroxing everything I knew how to sing. That's why recently, I finally did a TAB toss out of all the songs I'd copied and partially tabbed, but know I'm never going to actually play.So take the time and tell us how you found your music for "Little Beggerman". Paul Elliot Bostick said:
"Little Beggerman" is a favorite. Took me a long time, and a very interesting story, to find the lyrics back in the pre-computer and internet day. Still a favorite.
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Definitely a song about the Jacobite Rebellion and Bonnie Prince Charlie, Will Ye No Come Back Again, was written by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766-1845). And she was a prolific Scottish songwriter. I just got a marvelous CD of her works sung by Anne Lorne Gilles, titled "White Rose of June". The White Rose is associated with Bonnie Charlie as was the White Cockade. George Wentland said:
I think at the moment "Will Ye No' Come Back Again" is my favorite. Tho I am not sure if it's Scotish or Irish.
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Ken, Is the Long Black Veil really Irish in origin? I've always associated it with American Country. I know that the Chieftains have it on an album, but that's the only Irish group that I've ever heard do it. Ken Hulme said:
The Long Black Veil....
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I meant to add a YouTube, but don't know how to embed it, so here's the site
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I have a favorite Irish song, Mo Ghile Mear. The funny thing is, is that it's about Bonnie Prince Charlie.
How's that for combining an interest in the music and history.
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If you could only keep ONE of your dulcimers....
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I can agree with you completely. It's like trying to pick your favorite child. Kendra Ward said:
Ohhhh noooooo! Strumelia! This is toooooo hard! :-(
I could never choose. I would have to have someone else choose for me and just go with that. Does anyone want to volunteer? We could make it a game-I could give you all the pro's of all of them and you decide! :-)
Sorry I can't make up my mind? ? ? ? ? ? ? . . . . . . . . haha (what mind I do have!)
There are a few that I guess I could give up, but can we rephrase the question as to which 10-20-30 instruments would you keep? Oh, Strumelia . . . . . . . . . . .
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I couldn't do it. I have 14 instruments that I could possibly narrow down to say 10, but no more than that could I let go. I could give up a Berg, and a Folkroots, and a couple that Dave has made but weren't made for me to my specific requests.I have a few of Dave's very first instruments which are precious to me in that I watched him develop his talents and design skills while making them. I couldn't give them up.One dulcimer, almost a limited edition Sweet Woods Instrument, is a courting box dulcimer that has a lid that Dave wood burned with vines and Irish knot work. He made very few of this style of boxed instrument. He's done TMB's both in an historical reproduction style and of a modern variety. But the box I have is totally different. Couldn't give it up.How could I give up the one's he's made based on my request for a particular tone or voice. Nah, nope.And then there are the 3 I've made.. Once which even got Don Pedi's approval as well as Steve Eulberg's. Can't do it.It's easier to answer which ONE could I live without, that would be easier. Sorry :-(
Strumelia, I agree with you whole completely, which is why I said some of the tunes. And with that I really should have said "play with a dulcimer jam". Pick a type of music, pick a group jamming that music, and then see what that particular group plays is probably the way to answer "What music do I really need to know?" And that's only if you want to jam with others. Strumelia said:
Folkfan,
I would never be in sessions or jams that play 75% of those tunes either- it all depends on what kind of music you like to play and the groups you play with. Nothing wrong at all with all those tunes on that list, but there is a very high percentage of Irish/celtic tunes and the genres are spread all over the map. Obviously though, there must be sessions that play that whole list a lot. Different genres of music, different geographical areas, and people's tastes all make it fairly impossible to compile a list of 'tunes every jam session player should know'. So far I've never found a list that even remotely reflects what the people around me tend to play at jam sessions. Perhaps it's better to write down or ask about the tunes your local jam or club tends to play and work on those.
That's all right, I don't know many of them myself. Here's a site that has a list of over 75 traditional tunes that the site's owner feels that every dulcimer player should know. http://www.hambasdulcimers.com/75tunes.html My reaction to that is HAH!!! I don't know most of them and will never know them. Why? I prefer to spend my time learning music that I enjoy. So enjoy whatever tunes or songs you do know. If you do want to play with jamming groups though, you will have to learn some of these tunes. I just don't jam. Dana R. McCall said:
I haven't heard of over half the songs any of u listed.
I can tell you some of my least favorite songs. I've been going through all my books, stacks, and piles of tab and throwing out those I just never play. So among the several hundred sheets of paper I seem to have thrown out so far, I can say thatBoil em (Sorry Robin, but I've heard this one, one too many times)Old JoeI've got rings on my fingersSidewalks of NYRoad to BostonGreen CornShepherd's HeyGoober PeasWabash Cannonballetc and so on will never be heard in this house again.hehheheheheeee
Will have to get together with another song sometime.For songs I'm working on this week, Over the Sea to Skye. Wi' A Hundred Pipers. Come By The Hill and since I love Mairi's Wedding, I'll add it to the pot.So who is doing what this week? Ken Hulme said:
Keigh - Sure does!!!
Today's tunes are brought to you by Frosty-Os Favorite breakfast food of anyone living north of Washington DC this week!
1. Bonnie George Campbell , performed by Steve Turner on Fellside Records Flash Company
2. A Chat With Your Mother , from Sweetwater's Sing No Evil
3. Maire's Wedding a pipe band version I've played for years
Ken, If your having problems with Bonnie Dundee, just do a Killiecrankie on him. Of course, you might just get stuck on that one. ;-)Now I've got, "To the Lords of Convention, 'twas Claverhouse spoke..... running through my mind. EEK Ken Hulme said:
Today?
Cholera Camp a falsely cheery, jaunty English Raj tune based on the Kipling poem of the same name, by a group called Cockersdale.
Trials, Troubles, Tribulations , the spiritual I learned from Don Pedi
Bonnie Dundee , the Scottish tune, which seems to be permanently stuck in my head these days.
You might try going to your local public library and seeing about borrowing some songbooks. I know John Denver published a number. It's fairly easy to take the melody line and make up a tab from SMN (standard musical notation). I play a melody/drone style by finger dancing only on the melody string and can usually managed to get a melody line tab if I can find the sheet music. My library has used inter-library loans to get me some of the songbooks and anthologies that I've asked for. JACK MAGUIRE said:
John Denver, Ronnie Milsap, The Judds stuff like that. I like more contemperary stuff as I'm in New England and I may be the only one here who knows Flies in the Butter. Kinda sad when you think about it.
Everything Dulcimer has a lot of tabs but I have never heard the songs.
folkfan said:Jack, What types of popular songs are you looking for tab to? Perhaps we can direct you in the right direction for tab.
JACK MAGUIRE said:Morning has broken
Amazing Grace
Wild Rover or Danny Boy
These are song everyone knows and likes. It is hard to find tabs to alot of popular songs.
Very difficult to answer. I'm working on reconstructing the ballad Leezie Lindsay so that would be tops on my list.Corrie Doon as I'm forever singing that to my cat, Tigger.Come Owre the Stream, Charlie.Of course, there are a couple dozen others that fit in the top three on any given day. Like Erev Shel Shoshanim, Dancing at Whitsun, Jock O'Hazeldean, and Sound the Pibroch.
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Since you have the book, you might try teaching the kids just the chorus to Funiculi, Funicula. It's a long chorus full of tra la la's that can act as a song almost by itself. Suzanne Dennis said:
Folkfan, I cannot thank you enough for this response! I inherited so much music from my mother 22 years ago: scores of old hymnals of different faiths, stacks of sheet music from World War II, books and books of piano solos, etc. Among the books was Fireside Book of Songs for Children which I have often used at school.
Still, after searching online, the cover of the book you mentioned was so familiar...This morning, before getting dressed for school, I just had to look through my bookcase of her music, and there it was, on the bottom - Fireside Book of Folk Songs ! What a find, and here it was all the time! I had not thought of that book since I began to play the dulcimer three years ago. If you had not mentioned the song "One More RIver to Cross" and the book, it might have stayed on the bookcase, and look what I would have missed! Thank you again.
folkfan said:It's in the Fireside Book of Folk Songs called "One More River" published by Simon and Schuster. If you can't find it locally, let me know. It is a great book. I've had mine since I was a teenager. I've been collecting songbooks for years especially since I learned that I'd have to stay on the melody line and wouldn't need to learn chords. After that I simply never bought books of TAB.
I just got in Lyric Gems of Scotland which has no publication date on it, but probably was in the late 1800's.
It's in the Fireside Book of Folk Songs called "One More River" published by Simon and Schuster. If you can't find it locally, let me know. It is a great book. I've had mine since I was a teenager. I've been collecting songbooks for years especially since I learned that I'd have to stay on the melody line and wouldn't need to learn chords. After that I simply never bought books of TAB.I just got in Lyric Gems of Scotland which has no publication date on it, but probably was in the late 1800's.
This may be the Noah's Ark one that Strumelia mentioned: It has so many "One more river to cross in it. I learned the chorus as "There's one more river, and that wide river is Jordan, One more river, There's one more river to cross. I'll see if I can find the melody for it.ONE MORE RIVER ~~ Traditional Folk SongOld Noah, he did build an Ark, there's one more river to cross,He patched it up with hickory bark, there's one more river to cross.Chorus: One more river, and that's the river Jordan,One more river, there's one more river to cross.He anchored the Ark to a great big rock, there's one more river to cross,Then he began to load his stock, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in one by one, there's one more river to cross,The elephant chewing a caraway bun, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in two by two, there's one more river to cross,The crocodile and the kangaroo, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in three by three, there's one more river to cross,The tall giraffe and the tiny flea, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in four by four, there's one more river to cross,The hippos, they got stuck in the door, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in five by five, there's one more river to cross,The honey bees looking to build a hive, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in six by six, there's one more river to cross.The monkey was up to his usual tricks, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in seven by seven, there's one more river to cross,Said the bear to the elephant "Who are you shovin'?", there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in eight by eight, there's one more river to cross,Some were early and some were late, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in nine by nine, there's one more river to cross,They all joined up and marched in a line, there's one more river to cross.ChorusThe animals came in ten by ten, there's one more river to cross,If you want any more then I'll sing it again, there's one more river to cross.Chorus
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Wall space is something I've never used for storing instruments I play as I don't have much clear interior wall space due to the design of my house. I have only one dulcimer hanging on a wall, my very first that has too long a VSL.
Have you seen pictures of my quilt stand turned dulcimer stand?? It holds eight instruments easily in a relatively small foot print. I also have several individual stands that hold one or more instruments. Those are scattered all over the place. But I really think I don't have any more floor space for individual stands.
Dana R. McCall said:
I always look at it As long as I got a blank space on the wall there is room for another dulcimer. My husbands just glad he doesn't have to pick one up to sit down anymore. LOL
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Heeehehee, Yeah, right Dana, that's just what I was thinking last August when I got a student dulcimer from Harpmaker for traveling.
Well, he had the sweetest cherry teardrop at the Heartland Festival in Elizabethtown in November. Yep, she came home with me. I love the different sounds you can get using the same woods and shape and cherry is my favorite. So I have enough dulcimers at 14, but does that mean I'll never get another?????? Hmmm?
Dana R. McCall said:
I just added number 9 to the list. Got me a Clemmer Ban-jammer on ebay last night can't wait to get it home. I've been wanting on for a while. Still looking for a Homer Ledford to add to the list and then maybeeee I'll stop. LOL
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Had some changes in my list. The Berg is hung on a wall as the VSL was just a tad too long and I wasn't playing it. But it was my first instrument and I'm not going to give her up.The Folkroots didn't repair well, so is basically being used as a decoration, so I consider that I'm two down on my list.But this August I got a Sweet Woods student dulcimer for travel from Dave so I'm back to 13. I think, as sometimes I feel that late at night they are multiplying like coat hangers or rabbits.
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14 instruments. 1 Berg and 1 Fookroots, 3 that I've made, and the rest are from Sweetwoods Instruments, mostly standards, with 1 baritone, and one courting box. Too many different types of woods etc. to describe.
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Well if you could start some music, we could all play musical chairs. Strumelia said:
Anyone wanna play Twister?