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Bluegrass dulcimer - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Earl Scruggs classic, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." To me, for something to be bluegrass, you need a banjo. So I'm playing the banjo part on...
@Sam Edelston started 10 years ago - replies: 7

Dulcimentary: the history of the scheitholt and the scheitholt Ben Seymour made for me

Here is my latest dulcimentary is on the history of the scheitholt and the scheitholt Ben Seymour made for me...
@David Bennett started 10 years ago - replies: 4

See my Friends

Messing about (as you do) I found my self playing the first 3 notes of an old Kinks song see my friends and then remembered it had an Indian...
@Steve Battarbee started 10 years ago - replies: 1

Wild Mountain Thyme / Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go

This is about the most confusing song I've had to deal with. It is clearly copyrighted by Francis McPeake (in the 1950s) through an English folk...
@William Mann started 10 years ago - replies: 7

Videos on FOTMD lead to gig!

After posting three videos on FOTMD and telling our choir director about them, she approached me and said: "Why don't you some of these in one of...
@John W. McKinstry started 10 years ago - replies: 1

A hollow possum board?

I was wondering if anyone has made a possum board out of an old hollow Luan Mahogany door? I suppose even a dulcimer has been made from one too?...
@John W. McKinstry started 10 years ago - replies: 10

what fingers to use on right (picking) hand

Well, I've been finger picking for a couple of years - not enough to show off, but some. I've been using my thumb on the melody string and pointer...
@Kay Bolin started 10 years ago - replies: 7

Pastorale from La Belle Vielleuse

https://soundcloud.com/nickosullivan/pastorale-michel-corrette
@nick o'sullivan started 10 years ago - replies: 10

Mountaineer Club Gathering

The Mountaineer Dulcimer Club is holding their Spring Gathering this Saturday, April 18, from 10 to 3 at the Central Methodist Church in Fairmont,...
@Rob N Lackey started 10 years ago - replies: 1

Help arthritic fingers!

I just received my new dulcimer yesterday and I am so thrilled. I've experimented with one before and my intent was to learn chords. I fell in love...
@Melanie Cook started 10 years ago - replies: 11