@hugssandi I was unable to play the video here yet I saw it from fb-- yay, girls! The photos and vids from your day were a delight to see.
Thanks, @Strumelia! My highest aspiration as a player is to be a good porch player.
I've enjoyed all the postings of PMOTPD!
Great hearing from Butch by way of your interview! It's been too long since I've seen him 'live'.
@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:
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! 
@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.
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!
