Hey everybody has an old pair of sweat pants. I use the when carring my dulcimers to differnt venues . Just sew the leg bottoms up and use the drawstring to close em up.
I once saw a cool cloth 'gigbag' that someone made for their dulcimer out of an old blue jeans leg. They lined it with flannel and made a drawstring top. Awesome!
Depends on how much protection you need. I'm using the rip stop bag from a folding lawn chair at work to hang one in my locker. Fits just right and there is a draw string closure. Shoulder strap on the bag is heavy enough to carry the dulcimer on my shoulder if I needed to.
Well, I used a burlap mail sack for a while. I checked the gun cases at Dick's Sporting Goods and couldn't find one that would fit like I wanted it to. Thought I could find a gun case that would hold 2 nicely, but couldn't
I meant anything you used in your dulcimer playing time....thanks Sam ...that looks better than my buddy's gun case ...but man ...the cops in jersey and nyc are gonna stop me on every corner especially if there a political rally going on
Raven,
I've been thinking this might work, with proper padding added, of course
http://www.ebay.com/itm/300604887882?var=600023415174&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_3427wt_1139
have you used anything other than a normal dulce case?.....I have my hondo teardrop inside of a old bass case.......my friend has a couple of empty old rifle cases.... I was thinking of shaping foam in one
so what have you used ?.....I remember some guy in greenwich village ,nyc that would walk around with his hour glass in his laundry bag...yuck
Hey Geekling, its about time you left your foray into stripping, and gave a us a tune with your 'J bow' ?
John
Geekling said:
Gayle, in addition to Bucko Futreal's terrific electric dulcimer videos, John Keane, magictime, and I have posted videos featuring our Yocky electric dulcimers. The ones by magictime and me were played noter/drone. Of course, noter/drone is always going to sound best on an acoustic dulcimer, but an electric dulcimer sounds pretty cool played with a noter. In fact, it's kind of fun to mash up the traditional with the modern. For my House of the Rising Sun video, I fingerpicked my electric dulcimer while again playing it noter-style. And now that I think about it, I really should try bowing my electric now that I've gotten better at it. That's right, it'll be electric noter/bow!
PS: I've been using a special bow designed for mountain dulcimers called a JimBow. Robin uses the real kind!
Gayle, I'm an old-time music dulcimer player. However, I like lots of different dulcimer music! A couple of my favorite "electric" players are Bucko Futreal (his videos can be seen here at FOTMD) and Jerry Rockwell.
EDIT: Both Michael "Bucko" Futreal and Jerry Rockwell play more than one instrument. They're two players who come to mind when I think of "electric" dulcimer music, though. Also, I need to smack myself in the head . Bing Futch plays great music on electric dulcimer.
New mando vid LOL
Been wanting to mess around with the mando lately.
Hey that's pretty neat. I'll just look around and see if I can find some better pictures of them. My husband is a pretty handy guy and I'm sure he could build me one. I'd like something with a mini-washboard on it too me thinks .
If you ever get interested in learning clawhammer banjo, let me know and I can help.
Aha - that Boomba looks pretty cool actually ! Where would someone get one of those????
The banjammer - I see. I'm betting you could learn to play the banjo though too
Thanks Sue and Macy !
Jennifer - Hahaha, a full house of instruments!! LOVE IT. Everyone normally has at least one room in their house that gets drastically less use than others anyway right? So why not fill that room up with instruments. Not sure what a Boomba is, but i bet it's cool. Do you mean a banjo when you say banjammer? I think families that play together stay together, that's my philosophy anyway. I've yet to explore the fiddle though.
Yay, you got a mandolin! You're a natural Mandy!
Girl this is amazing ! Love it
LOL
Ken Hulme said:
Mando Mandy and the Goat Ropers -- now there's a name for a CW/Folk/OldeTyme band!
Ummm actually I already have a country middle name, so no need to do any changin'. It's better than Lynn even. It's Luanne (Lou Ann), so there you go. This girl is already country to the core. And I never wear shoes unless I have to (that's no joke).
Thanks for watching!
Strumelia said:
Mandy you sound like a total natural on that mando. Very impressive!
...are you going to change your name to Mandy Lynn now?
Mando Mandy and the Goat Ropers -- now there's a name for a CW/Folk/OldeTyme band!
Mandy you sound like a total natural on that mando. Very impressive!
...are you going to change your name to Mandy Lynn now?
the other instrument of interest cool Mandy!
Thanks for watching! Making music is just so fun. Even a simple little tune makes me smile.
Thanks Patty, yep $40 - well actually it came with a guitar too for a total of $80 with free shipping.
Mandy, great video!!! I love Old Joe Clark. That's a pretty mandolin. You only paid $40 for it? Wow!
Thanks for sharing
Here's the vid - fun little thing to play!
Haha Susie! Maybe I will work up to that many someday. We have a bunch already-
1. Washburn guitar (hubbys grandma gave it to him, it never gets played but it counts)
2. Martin guitar (gift to hubby from father)
3. Blueridge guitar (my guitar I got this year)
4. Gold Tone Banjo (my baby)
5. Dulcimer
6. uke (for my daughter)
7. Oil can banjo (hubby made, 5 string)
8. Cigar Box guitar (hubby made, 4 string)
9. Harmonica (never gets touched)
10. 3 "D" tin whistles
11. Egg Shaker with handle (not sure what it's called but it's cool and I've been using it in some of our group songs when the banjo isn't needed)
12. NEW Beater guitar
13. NEW Beater mando
Hmmm, guess that's it. Maybe something else lying around here that I forgot about too.
Hopefully someday I'll get that upright bass too - that's for looks too because it's so beautiful.
I gotta say this little $40 mando is sweet sounding. The action is pretty good, the frets feel nice, and I'm just shocked at how decent it is for such a cheapo.
That's so cool your hubby made you a cabinet. So I take it he doesn't play anything? My hubby has basically just let his beautiful Martin collect dust until I started a weekly jam session here at the house. Now he's right in the thick of things and it has really rekindled his desire to play and sing.
Mandy, congrats. I play many different instruments too. Since you'll have a mandolin, you'll have to get a fiddle...they are tuned the same. Only the fiddle doesn't have frets. I'm learning on my grandpa's fiddle and got a mandolin to help with learning the notes. It took off from there. I enjoy sitting down with the mandolin and picking out fiddle tunes. Working on speed now. It has helped me with the fiddle. I've got 15 instruments now and have told my husband I'm done. He is VERY supportive...he's bought me several instruments as surprises. My latest gift...a new tenor uke which is awesome. Oh, counting my whistle and recorder...I have 17. My husband even buit me an oak cabinet for my instruments. He's such a great guy.
Well my cache of musical instruments is growing! Today the UPS man will deliver a shiny new mando and I'm totally psyched about it.
It all started last week when my hubby was sayin' he's really wanting a beater guitar to take and leave at work so he can play at lunch. So we started looking around online(been looking at music shops locally for awhile, but nothing has fit the bill). Came across a real cheapo one that gets really great reviews. Kind of hard to believe for the price, but for just a bit more you can get a mando too. So naturally I saw that and my brain was like "hey here's a chance to try out another instrument". So I said let's get both so we can beat around on both of them. I actually had a mando for a few months in 2005, so it's not completely new, but i had no clue what to do with the thing and it was gone quick.
So we bought them and it's gonna be here today! Now I know what you're thinking. Mandy, gheesh just get real good at one before you go jumping around all over the place. LOL. But I dunno it's weird. Most people get the dulcimer, or banjo, or guitar syndrome where they want a million of one instrument. Like - Dana for instance ( ) we all know she has like 20 dulcimers. Haha. Well for me it's just that I want every possible instrument I can get my hands on. Strange I know. But really I still want a stand up bass, a fiddle, and basically anything I can get. But I'll be honest, the fiddle scares me (haha).
So I'm gonna pull that baby out once it arrives and tune her up and go to town! After I youtube some chords that is, hahah.
Anyone wanna throw out any tips or advice it's all welcome.
My only problem with all this is that I'm not independently wealthy so I'm going to have to go back to work and won't be able to play constantly anymore! That's gonna be a sad musical day IMO, but at least a job will afford us the cashola to acquire more wonderful instruments. Catch 22 there I guess. Hahah.
Anybody know who won this? Looks like an Edsel to me, in which case somebody got a nice piece of dulcimer history, even with its "issues".
Mark and I love Butch!
