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Tab Nonesuch on dulcimer
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English Country Dance Tunes for Dulcimer, volume 1
updated by @mark-gilston: 04/06/24 05:18:12PM
to get chromatic or not
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ErthLing:
The answer to this is an emphatic "NOT REALLY" It is true you can play all the notes that you would otherwise play on a diatonic instrument, but regardless of the visual complications brought on by a chromatic fretboard, the REAL problem is that those extra frets mean that you must have WAY more precision and MUCH bigger stretches to play a chromatic, ESPECIALLY if you are playing chords and not just melody. I find that many of the rules I teach for fingering on a diatonic, simply won't work on a chromatic instrument just because most people can not stretch 2 inches between ring and pinky fingers (I can, but I prefer not to). Also playing the same tune on a chromatic and a diatonic dulcimer just doesn't sound the same at all. If you play with any kind of style, whatsoever, then slides become a big part of the music, and they change dramatically when you go chromatic. (Sometimes it can be to great advantage, but it is simply naive to ignore the change in sound.)
If I get a Chromatic Dulcimer can I play it the same as a diatonic by just ignoring the extra frets?"
2016 National Mountain Dulcimer Contest results
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I am very pleased to report that I won the 2016 National Dulcimer Competition at Winfield. Second place went to Cassandra Damper and third went to Wendy Songe.
http://markgilston.com/
updated by @mark-gilston: 07/31/23 09:44:51PM
Congratulations, Mark Gilston!
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Thanks all,
Here are videos of the four tunes I played in the competition.
Mark Gilston
http://markgilston.com/
updated by @mark-gilston: 09/19/16 01:17:38PM
Looking for TAB for "To Drive the Cold Winter Away"
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Drive the Cold Winter Away is in my book of English Country Dance Tunes for Dulcimer, Vol 1
Here I am playing it so you can hear the arrangement: