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cairney
@steve-c
02/12/22 08:04:43AM
99 posts

The Positive Thread...
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I love the idea of Jean’s birthday, but my concern is that puts the day in the midst of the holiday season and it might get lost in all the events going on at that time.  If we wanted to schedule a big event for that day it might be challenging with everyone’s holiday plans.  But, I agree that Jean is certainly the most influential leader of the dulcimer world.  I still play her records every week and sing her songs.

here is another thought, Jean died on June 1, 2015, that would put the celebration in the midst of dulcimer festival season…might be easier for events…just thinking out loud…


updated by @steve-c: 02/12/22 08:09:48AM
cairney
@steve-c
02/11/22 03:38:13PM
99 posts

The Positive Thread...
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Of course we could consider the earliest authenticated dulcimer with a date of….drum roll please…John Scales, Jr. August 28, 1832 which could also coincide with play your dulcimer on front porch day…which that dulcimer will be 190 years old this summer.  In ten years it will be two hundred years old..big celebration..


updated by @steve-c: 02/11/22 05:37:41PM
cairney
@steve-c
02/11/22 05:10:45AM
99 posts

The Positive Thread...
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Dusty Turtle:

February 11 is National Guitar Day. When is National Dulcimer Day?  I vote for December 8. Anyone know why?

Jean Ritchie was born on December 8, 1922….is a possibility. Is that what you were thinking?

cairney
@steve-c
11/25/21 09:50:35PM
99 posts

The Positive Thread...
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Hope you all had a happy thanksgiving!  

cairney
@steve-c
08/16/21 11:40:31AM
99 posts

Unknown maker
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steve c.:

Well it’s not a Stockard, Gary Galileo says he has no idea who built it.

steve c.:

Well it’s not a Stockard, Gary Gallier says he has no idea who built it.

cairney
@steve-c
08/16/21 11:39:20AM
99 posts

Unknown maker
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Well it’s not a Stockard, Gary Galileo says he has no idea who built it.

cairney
@steve-c
07/30/21 07:09:10PM
99 posts

John Stockard dulcimers


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I know of a fully chromatic dulcimer he built in 2007 that is number 217. 

cairney
@steve-c
07/30/21 12:24:17PM
99 posts

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I’ve just learned that Gary Gallier, John’s son-in-law has an early Stockard that has wooden pegs.  

cairney
@steve-c
07/29/21 09:13:52PM
99 posts

John Stockard dulcimers


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Does anyone know how many dulcimers John Stockard built? I picked this one up and it is super nice to play and sounds amazing.


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updated by @steve-c: 07/30/21 03:43:16AM
cairney
@steve-c
07/29/21 08:32:10PM
99 posts

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steve c.:

Looks like it could have been an early John Stockard?  



cairney
@steve-c
07/29/21 07:24:31PM
99 posts

Unknown maker
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Looks like it could have been an early John Stockard?  

cairney
@steve-c
09/10/19 11:02:43AM
99 posts

Dulcimer Maker ID
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I lived there myself and have family there.  There were more than a few dulcimers around there.  I have one that is supposed to come my way, it was built in the 1940’s and is fully fretted.  Chet lived outside of town, not sure exactly where.  He said his first one wasn’t very good.  Didn’t start building seriously until he moved to Dayton.

cairney
@steve-c
09/10/19 06:54:44AM
99 posts

Dulcimer Maker ID
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Great find!  I own two of Chet’s instruments.  Yours was called his Masterpiece dulcimer.  Ron Ewing apprenticed under Chet and can tell you more about him.  There is a bio of Chet in Jean Ritchie’s book Dulcimer People.  He built his first dulcimer in 1935 as a teenager in Chillicothe, Ohio. 

cairney
@steve-c
02/22/19 07:29:46PM
99 posts

What's your favorite mournful, spooky, or lonesome song to play?
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions

I think I find the song below mournful, because the words all sound beautiful, though the tune is very haunting, then at the end it says all this will be "When you lie still."

 

cairney
@steve-c
02/22/19 07:05:06PM
99 posts

What's your favorite mournful, spooky, or lonesome song to play?
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions





The World Is Old Tonight, The Morning Dew

Traditional shepherd’s carol from the Ritchie Family, Traditional Irish Reel

The world is old tonight, the world is old
The stars around the fold do show their light Do show their light
And so they did and so, a thousand years ago And so we’ll do, my love, when we lie cold

The world is still tonight, the world is still The snow on vale and hill like wool lies white Like wool lies white
And so it did and so, a thousand years ago And so we’ll do, my love, when we lie still




cairney
@steve-c
02/04/19 08:10:59PM
99 posts

Milford Blevins Bass dulcimer. How do I tune this thing
General mountain dulcimer or music discussions

I have a Blevins large bass or something kind of dulcimer.  It has wooden tuning pegs.  Pretty amazing instrument.

 

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