Group Discussions
Greensboro, NC players
Are there any players around the Greensboro, NC area who would like to get together to play once in a while? I don't know anyone here who plays. I...
@Gail Webber started 13 years ago - replies: 1
Stick Dulcimer Making Theme tune Tutorial with tabs.
Hi everyone, I have been promising a video tutorial for this simple piece for a while now, Here is it in video form, tabbed it as best I can which...
@Michael J King started 13 years ago - replies: 0
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