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Great article. Thanks for posting this!

Here is an article about Hindman, Kentucky where the Hindman Dulcimer Homecoming takes place every year. The folks at the Lutheriery make quite a few dulcimers based on the J.E. Thomas pattern as well as others. Just thought some folks might find it interesting.

http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article116038888.html

Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."

Sounds like you have a beauty enjoy your journey and I am sure other's will lead you to more information as you have lead me to the discovery of JR's dulcimers have fun.

Rick Scott playing JR's last dulcimer;

I went to youtube and found Rick Scott playing J.R's last dulcimer and JR playing a dulcimer very much like yours.

I looked up JR Stone and found a interesting article "Meeting Joni Mitchel" by Rick Scott. Which includes some back ground information on JR Stone. This might interest you. http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2682

Welcome to FOTMD.  Very cool dulcimer!  

Are you considering learning to play it?  In any case I'm sure you'll get some interesting info on this instrument form other members.

I removed your other duplicate thread, and I moved this thread out of the For Sale forum since it's not a sale thread.  If you decide to sell this dulcimer later, please create a new selling thread there after first reviewing the For Sale Forum guidelines.  Thanks very much!

Hearts of the Dulcimer Podcast - Episode 19
National Dulcimer Championship 2016

http://bit.ly/hotdpodcast

We have a new episode … National Dulcimer Championship 2016 with Mark Gilston, Cassandra Damper, and Wendy Songe. Listen to their dramatic stories about winning the national championship. With commentary by Jim Woods from McSpadden Dulcimers.

For episode resources, go to:  http://dulcimuse.com/podcast/resource/019.html

You are right Barbara. George Haggerty of Jacksonville, VT. ( Sweet-water Dulcimers) is my friend, neighbor and dulcimer building mentor and has been handcrafting some of the sweetest sounding dulcimers I have ever heard for 30+ years. His trademark design are his offset hearts and vines. As you mentioned he makes hourglass as well as teardrop dulcimers. The quality of his dulcimers are top notch!

Thank you, Ken!  ~I appreciate you so very much~

p.s.  George Haggerty, Sweet-Water Dulcimers, makes teardrop and hourglass shaped instruments, as well as student models.

Hi All - Sweet-Water Dulcimers are made by George Haggerty in Jacksonville VT.  My husband and I both have one of his teardrops - George makes a beautiful, sweet-sounding instrument!  Aubrey Atwater's primary dulcimer is one of George's.  George worked for FolkCraft when they were in CT, and runs the Dulcimer Daze August Festival in West Dover, VT, now in its 26th year.  Hope this helps.

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When you get that high, angle your pick way up -- almost vertical -- so you're only picking the melody string(s).  It's not out of tune, but it certainly is a "discord".

John Henry,  I am so very sorry for the loss of your beloved Mary...my deepest condolences to you and your family....

John Henry, I am very sorry for your loss, my thoughts are with you. Stay strong.

So as I keep on, I am playing well until the 11th fret.  Sounds out of tune every time.  I think I'll just cut those songs out of my Christmas repertoire for now...  LOL!

God bless you and yours, John and Paul.  I'm sorry for your loss.

I WISH!!!!!!!!!

John Henry...........I just read the post by Robin concerning your beloved's crossing Jordan. May you be granted great comfort from family and friends and the knowledge that beyond Jordan there is a promised land.

                                                                   "I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
                                                                    Traveling through this world of woe
                                                                    Yet there's no sickness, toil nor danger
                                                                    In that fair land to which I go
                                                                    I'm going there to see my father
                                                                    I'm going there no more to roam
                                                                    I'm just going over Jordan
                                                                    I'm just going over home"

John Henry,  I am so sorry to hear of Mary's  passing.  I hope you and your family find comfort in knowing she is with the lord and is no longer in pain. You are a good man to have sacrificed of yourself for Mary's comfort the past few years.  If you need someone to talk to,  I'm here for you.  God bless you and your family in this tough time.  Your friend Kevin. 

I am so very sorry for your loss.

John, I'm sorry to hear about Mary. I'm lifting you and your family up in prayer. May God give you comfort as only He can. 

My condolences to you, John and Paul, and to your family.

Steven

John Henry, so sorry to hear of Mary's passing. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.

I am so sorry to read this news.  My deepest condolences to you, John and Paul.   You are in my thoughts.

So sorry to hear the sad news, John Henry.  May God hold you and your family in His loving hands at this time of grief.

The relative paucity of actual oldtime musician albums (as opposed to bluegrass, pop or movie 'oldtimey' soundtracks, and country albums for example) has precluded actual oldtime recordings from becoming mainstream.  One should probably agree on the definitions of both 'mainstream' and 'oldtime' when discussing it, since diff folks include or exclude various genres when referring to 'oldtime music'.  (Most don't include the Southern harmony singing traditions such as Louvin bros/Stanley bros, or cajun, etc)   The tunes Freeman refers to as obscure were  indeed obscure...but... like 20 or 30 years ago.  Freeman founded County Records in the early '60s, and County was the very first label to focus on oldtime music.  This was before CDs and before most cassettes...only LP records played on turntables. Very few new records were pressed each year because they were a huge expense and investment.

But anyhoo... Almost all the serious OT musicians I've known have passionately dug deep into the 'roots' of the music (i.e. researching/absorbing from the older traditions and sources) while also infusing fresh life and their own personal approaches in playing the material, including creating new tunes..continuing to grow and explore as musicians as they get older.  
I do find that unfortunate when any of those people who were responsible for hunting down and saving thousands  of irreplaceable old family and field recordings that were rotting away in barns about to be lost forever (Bruce Greene's hard fought Salyer collection which he gave to Berea, Dwight Diller's Hammonds recordings..) are sometimes later portrayed as musicians  'playing the same old tunes' -as if they are stale or in a rut.  These are the same people who at great effort wrestled some of the most obscure and beautiful music from the brink of extinction not so very long ago.

Amusingly, some  of the 'source people' now mined by the newest batch of young musicians, were those very same young urban college-educated musicians in their 30s, making field trips, roughing it and getting excited by their own 'discovery' of OT music back then.  Ironically, many did not grow up in the tradition, yet helped preserve and document some of it.  They started the oldtime festivals that are frequently young musicians' first exposure to the music. Those players are now in their 60s, 70s, and 80s...recording incredible stuff of their own and teaching and passing on what they've learned from those before them.  The good ones know how to pull something fresh and exciting from a tune whether they've played it ten times or eight hundred times.  

Of course, the old must always make way for the young. Hopefully the young are insightful enough to learn from the generation before them who were certainly true music pioneers in their own right.  O ldtime musicians young and old have been 'shaking up the oldtime movement' ever since the Highwoods and the NLCR (which is about when the only thing one might conceivably call an 'oldtime movement' may have occurred).  I like to think shaking up is continuous, and ageless.    :)

My deepest condolences to the entire Crocker family.  Please know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.

I'm so sorry for your loss, John and Paul.  Condolences to you and your family.

Condolences, John and Paul.  

Many of the old time albums that are produced have many of the same staples on them. Maybe he's just referring to these songs not appearing as often on "mainstream" old time albums (if old time is ever mainstream) ?

I found these from an article mentioning artists who are shaking up the old time movement.

http://www.thebluegrasssituation.com/read/5-artists-shaking-old-time-music

Re: hog eyed man-   Interesting that Dave Freeman of County Records (of all people) would call these 'obscure' fiddle tunes.  They've been standards in oldtime sessions and festivals for over a decade now...in fact, fast approaching 'old chestnut' status if not already there.  (that might mean I'm an old chestnut myself i suppose...lol)

The 1970s style LP graphics sure had me going for a while, trying to figure out why I had never heard of these guys...but I guess this is a current band using retro styling for their 'album'?  Everything old is new again...

Photo of Bruce Greene playing banjo on stage.  (huh?)

This is an old time music group that I just found. They're pretty great. 

also check out Squirrel Butter

Our Dear Friend John Henry, you and your family are in my prayers and I hope you find comfort in each other in the coming weeks as you remember your Sweet Mary.

Sending you Hugs.

John Henry and Paul,  Your loss is great.  My heartfelt sympathy and condolences.  I know she had to be a special lady to put up with you, JH, these many years.  And yes, Paul, I'm sure she was a wonderful mother as well.  Here's hoping you might be comforted and will try to pray to that end.  

Sorry for your loss,

Rob

John Henry, my heart is with you.  Please know that we send our love to you at this very difficult time.

I hope you are able to receive comfort in the coming weeks from your family, friends, and perhaps through music as well.  Mary was a very special and wonderful woman. 

I send a warm gentle hug to you, dear John Henry.

It is with a heavy heart I tell you that John Henry's beloved, Mary, has died.  John and his son Paul are both members here.  I offer my deepest sympathy to John & Mary's entire family and pray for each to feel comfort midst their grief.  

Is anyone attending Unicoi this year? I went last year and loved the fellowship, the vendors and the great teachers. I was just 10 months in and it was a fantastic immersion for me.  I also snagged a starsong and several great books.

I cannot wait to play all the different dulcimers up for sale, fact-finding of course :), and snag some books.

Hope to see someone there!

Johnny, it's even more modest than that!  If you sell a dulcimer for $450 for example, I still only ask for a $5 site donation.  

On my dulcimers that don't have a laquered finish, I use Howard's Feed n Wax .  I learned of the product from a video by Bing Futch .  It works on the body and fretboard.  It won't hurt a laquered finish, but it won't be too effective either.  It's easy to find at most hardware or home improvement stores.