Forum Activity for @robin-thompson

@hugssandi What a happy late-August Christmas!  I loved seeing the photos and reading your summary of the day, a time to cherish, I imagine.  <3

That matching possum board looks so good-- nicely done, John!  The new owner is, indeed, fortunate.  

David, I enjoyed your video!  How cool your neighbor came to get in on the fun, too.  

Nice picture, Ken L!  

Kevin & Steven-- I like insect accompaniment!  :)

Oh, cool, @dedicated-dad!  The mahogany looked lovely in the photo.  Enjoy! 

@ballad-gal I learned of it in 2016 on Facebook.  it's a great holiday!

Have a great PMOTPD, friends! 

Yay, @dedicated-dad!  Good sleuthing.  Chet Hines was an Ohio maker.  :)

What a cool instrument!  I'm throwing out a guess-- Bill Davis?

Thanks, @redmando!  I'm enjoying your interviews.  

@jill-geary Yes, noter on the patio-- perfect! 

I love seeing y'all's responses! 

Me & my band (Mark) are taking over our deck Saturday morning.  haha

@marg Whiskey Before Breakfast has been a good go-to jam tune for me over the years. :) @robert-shuler listed some good ones, too.  

Redmando, I greatly enjoyed your "chinwag" with Doug Berch!  I'm a fan of Doug's music and am happy to be able to call him a friend.  

I'm not sure whether these fall into the category of interest, Dusty?

https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu

https://libraryguides.berea.edu/bsaresearchguides/researchguides

Though my knowledge is very limited, I'm thinking you do not have a wolf tone; at least, on a cello, a wolf tone presents every place that note is found on the fingerboard.  As you note, you are getting a sympathetic vibration.  Please let us know how all goes?  And good luck! 

@spineloccio Any change in the unwanted tones your wife's McSpadden was giving?  

Hi, @silverstrings!  Maybe this site is what you're looking for: 

https://blackmtninstruments.com/about/

Lois, there is an element or two of this instrument which I've seen before-- the swan head being the more notable element.  I can't recall, though, when I saw some similar photos.  I'm hoping somebody knows who the maker was! 

Wow, @tautwire, you have a cute little adventuous one there!  

Steve, no worries about the accidental delete!  I also look forward to your further conversations.  Though I'm far away from the UK, I follow Nonsuch's happenings a bit and enjoy doing so. 

@dulcimerbill & @salt-springs-- wonderful!  Gonna be lots of music played around the front porch of the world on 31 August. 

:) Strumelia 

Three weeks away, friends-- always the last Saturday in August! 

@Susie Too bad her birthday wasn't 7 April!  :)

@Susie You just needed an older sister!  haha

Yay, y'all!  The prizes are cool.

@Strumelia We wouldn't be here if not for you-- yay, FOTMD & Strumelia!  

Boon sure is a cute pup! 

@don-grundy Here's a photo of just the pick-- it is kind of heart-shaped after all.  :)

@don-grundy It's more L-shaped with the L being fat.  Each person could adapt the basic shape for the size of their own hand.  I wanted to show the hold on the pick in the photo.  The shape is easy to keep a good yet very light hold, thereby keeping the shoulder & arm relaxed.  

I cut many of my picks from plastic lids/containers.  This shape offers a very comfortable loose hold and works nicely on even a fast tune. 

Sally Ann plays scheitholt!  :)

Huzzah!  Huzzah!  

Mark & I do Down the Road together and once in a great while I'll play mountain dulcimer on part of it/take breaks on it.  (It is so hard for me to sing and play at the same time!)

In the song "my old hat's got a hole in the top" and "rocks in the road as big as a churn".  We sing choruses and if I'm on MD there are breaks.  

I get buzzes which seem to be weather-related.  Just a thought.  Though the wood is no longer living as a tree, it 'lives' in a different way now, subject to all sorts of changes. 

@Dan The young lady playing with Hunter is his sweetheart, Gray Buchanan.  

In my humble opinion, Hunter shines even more in a stringband setting and in support of other players-- he knows when to be in and when to not.  A young master, indeed.   

I greatly enjoyed this interview with my young friend Hunter Walker.  I think Hunter was thirteen or fourteen when we met in-person at the Vandalia Gathering in Charleston WV.  (First, we met online at Everything Dulcimer.) 

https://oldtime-central.com/hunter-walker-interview-and-tunes/?fbclid=IwAR14EmV-UdiLOUmVbW9iAbZeY3OHplP4u1noyl-wdja6yu0qQ-XCK3hWEb8

@hugssandi We're here on the planet to encourage one another-- and you've been an encouragement to me through the years we've known one another online.  We do go back a good ways.  <3

Friends, your postings have encouraged me with going through old paperwork, papers much accumulated in my own home during the years I was caregiver at my folks' house.  And I wish to tackle more than papers, too, to lessen the things in the house.  It will take me many months but I'm further along than had I done nothing.  

Andreas, I wish all good things for your hospital stay! 

Thank you for the inspiration, folks!  

@Gstringer The instrument is, surely, not "high end" yet it's a great little instrument.  The wood itself is light in weight and the color is a stain.  Plays well and has a nice timbre.  Enjoy your Kern! 

EDIT: Yes, Mr Kern's initials and last name are on the back of the headstock, written using some type of electric tool. 

A video with the A.R. kern mountain dulcimer