Group Discussions
Other Than Equal Temperament
Robin Clark has posted a thread about mean temperament and just temperament. The ideas and work they are doing there are excellent and I commend...
@Randy Adams started 10 years ago - replies: 14
Wood Sources near Big Bend area of Florida
I settle on a house in Tallahassee at the end of March and am wondering what wood shopping will be like there. I am used to having a pretty good...
@Pete Staehling started 10 years ago - replies: 0
Miss McLeod's Reel by Fiddle Whamdiddle (Vi Wickam and Steve Eulberg)
Here is a video of our performance of this Scottish-American tune with fiddle and Galax mountain dulcimer with noter and turkey quill at the...
@Steve Eulberg started 10 years ago - replies: 11
Fret Calculations for Just Intonation and its Effect on Modes
As we all know, traditionally the dulcimer was a drone instrument where a fretted melody string was played against drones. And traditionally the...
@Robin Clark started 10 years ago - replies: 101
Can a dulcimer change? Sustain is. . .loud
Hi All,I really love my instrument -- I play at least a little while almost every day. Recently it seems like the sustain (vibrato) is louder and...
@Ellen Rice started 10 years ago - replies: 17
What is a good timeframe for a lesson?
Hello All,I am a new student of the dulcimer within the past month. I was wondering how long an individual lesson should be? I just had a lesson of...
@Neil W. Millard started 10 years ago - replies: 14
Seek Ye First
I want to learn the hymn Seek Ye First in noter drone style.The hymnal I have tells me it is in the Key of Eb in 2/2 time.Which tuning would I use...
@Richard Streib started 10 years ago - replies: 17
Fisher's Hornpipe - Clifford Glen Dulcimer
Hosted by Kiwi6 file hosting . Download mp3 - Free Music Hosting . I'm staying in a little cottage on the Glentruim...
@Robin Clark started 10 years ago - replies: 9
How do you highlight the melody in Tabledit?
I've seen some arrangements in Tabledit in which the melody note is either in bold face or in a different color from the rest of the arrangement....
@Dusty Turtle started 10 years ago - replies: 8
Lee Hammons dulcimers
Hi, folks! In Winter '14 issue of GOLDENSEAL, in the article on the Hammons family, the author mentions Lee Hammons (not relation to Maggie, Burl,...
@Robin Thompson started 10 years ago - replies: 7