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Down To The River (Valley) To Pray - 5-1-1 tuning

This tune was revived by Alison Kraus for O'Brother Where Art Thou, but it is a good 100 years older! I'm playing it on my Prichard repro using...
@Robin Clark started 13 years ago - replies: 25

My newest "baby"

Finished my latest "baby" It's a shorty: 20.25 VSL. Bocote sides and bottom, curly maple top, cherry fingerboard, ebony nut and bridge. 24/18/14...
@Ed Gaunt started 13 years ago - replies: 2

Bocote Dulcimer

Finished my latest "baby" It's a shorty: 20.25 VSL. Bocote sides and bottom, curly maple top, cherry fingerboard, ebony nut and bridge. 24/18/14...
@Ed Gaunt started 13 years ago - replies: 4

Dulcimer that changes its tuning

I purchased a dulcimer that has a fantastic voice, but after I tune it sounds like it goes out of tune after being tuned. Also, the other weird...
@Laura Bell started 13 years ago - replies: 20

Amazing Grace/Shady Grove - Nettie Presnell Style

Ralph Lee Smith rated Nettie Presnell as one of the best 'old school' dulcimer players he had encountered. She had a very distinct playing...
@Robin Clark started 13 years ago - replies: 20

Pick v Quill

Cheryl Johnson very kindly sent me a noter of the design that Phyllis Gaskins uses for Galax playing and also a couple of the Dunlop 0.46mm...
@Robin Clark started 13 years ago - replies: 9

video profile of Jean by Headwaters

I haven't found any mention of this video here at FOTMD, but it sure is of interest to most of us. Here is the official description of the...
@Dusty Turtle started 13 years ago - replies: 12

Dulcimer during the War Between the States

Here's some food for thought regarding if dulcimers were played in the War Between the States. John Mawhee said he got the pattern for the "Indian...
@Rob N Lackey started 13 years ago - replies: 18

The Ritchie Family of Kentucky

This may be old news to many of you but I just ran across " The Ritchie Family of Kentucky " on the Smithsonian Folkways site at...
@David Bennett started 13 years ago - replies: 1

Newbie milestone reached - first broken string!

Well I just broke a string - I knew it was bed time but I was still noodling around, messing with tunings and Kerplung! Gave me a start and woke...
@Ruth Lawrence started 13 years ago - replies: 12