Bingo!
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Ahaaaaa! Thanks Paul. Another window opens up.
Forum Activity for @terry-wilson
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Bingo!
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Thanks man, I'm enjoying it. Still playing the dulcimer though, it will always be my main squeeze. Ain't no piano gonna turn my clock around.
R N Lackey said:
That's great, Terry. Keep up the good work!
Bingo!
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Carrie, I'm with Dan, it's just "too cool". My wife thinks it cool too. It's like this neat little discovery took the big secret out of the closet. Now the challenge is to figure out how to use more than one finger and what those black keys are good for. Carrie, I don't know much about a pump organ, I just hope it's not something that's catching.
Bingo!
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Last night I experienced a new "ah ha" moment. My wife plays piano and over the years I touched the one in our home several times, but it was so foreign to me the touch didn't last long.
Well, after playing the dulcimer for 18 months now, I sat down at the piano and "bingo!". Starting at middle C on the piano white keys (wife told me this much), I discovered I can play, with one finger, songs that I play on the dulcimer. Middle C is D, next key to the right of middle C is E (tuned DAd), and so on and so forth up the key board. Middle string on the dulcimer are the keys to the left of middle C.
This may sound pretty elementary to some, but to me this was huge in understanding music and the scary piano. Just delighted by this discovery.
Terry
updated by @terry-wilson: 04/13/18 09:23:26AM
Barbara, if you like CGC then you may wan to try B F# B . You can even go as low as AEA. On my 3 string McSpadden I can go from DAD all the way down to AEA and the sound is still wonderful, not even close to being to loose even at AEA.
Your strings might become too loose (for lack of a better word), but give it a try anyway. You might want to order you a Snark tuner for around $10.00 plus shipping at Amazon.com.
Happy tuning!!!
Opinions on new dulcimer
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions
Anyone got an opinion of a dulcimer built with wormy chestnut?
I still believe that too much is made of "not looking at the fret board". In a performance, what's wrong with looking at the work you are doing? Sure, you have to take your eyes off of the fret board a lot of the time, eye contact with the audience is important. Great guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Bob Dylan & Keith Richards all spent time during performances looking at their fingers to get the music as perfect as can be. Young even closes his eyes on some songs for sometimes a minute at a time. If your heart is into the song, and you have confidence in your skill for this one song by preparing yourself mentally and physically, then there is no need to be worrying about staring at the fret board too long and making eye contact with the audience. It just happens. Just be your natural prepared self.
I tinker with a ukulele, lap harp & piano. On a 1-10 scale, I would say I am a 2 on ukulele, 1 on piano, and 3 on lap harp. I still own 8 dulcimers, two are on loan, and have sold 3 more on Craig's list recently. My favorite is a 6 string all walnut McSpadden. Next is the 2nd dulcimer I purchased the first week of learning to play a little over a year ago, an all cherry 4 string Cletus Penny, hand crafted in Newton, Ga. Thinking of ordering a Penny Whistle maybe today.