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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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 years ago - replies: 7

She's Always a Woman

Billy Joel's exquisite waltz, "She's Always a Woman," fits the dulcimer beautifully, in my opinion. (Interestingly, it's a waltz that switches...
@Sam Edelston started 11 years ago - replies: 6

How to speed up learning by slowing down .... (not just for beginners)

Ever wondered how a song in a video on here, or anywhere, is played but the finger movement is so fast or complicated that you can't take it all in...
@Mark Brothers started 11 years ago - replies: 8