Doug's photo of the burning dulcimer is almost a heart-stopper. And a prompt to think.It was a pleasure to hear Doug's music at Fort New Salem WV last August!

I heartily concur. A cocktail of technical information, humour,philosophical musings and a wealth of illustrations related to many things from 'yesterday', plus the bonus of the occasional mention of dulcimers.I'd buy the book!!!JohnH

Just had to mention the very interesting and well-crafted music-themed blog that Doug Berch has online:
http://dougberch.com/blog/

Will cure most cases of musical boredom. Lots of varied and entertaining entries. I certainly share Doug's enthusiasm for quirky archaic illustrations.

My most helpful discovery on Doug's blog so far?- his pointing me to the online version of the 1899 book titled The Natural History of the Musical Bow by Henry Balfour. Naturally this is particularly exciting to me due to my recent adventures in attempting to play the mouth bow.

Be sure to say hi to Zelda and Fifi while you're there...





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