Group Discussions
"The Virginia Dulcimer: 200 Years of Bowing, Strumming and Plucking" exhibit
I play the mountain and bowed dulcimer and fiddle at Civil War reenacting events.I wanted to make a reproduction of a period instrument for...
@Marsha Harris started 16 years ago - replies: 39
The False Nut Upon the Road
I've been fiddling with false nuts, reverse capos, or whatever you call them. Details follow the picture below. This one has a pair of...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 13
Welsh Tunes
I thought that I'd post some tunes here from where I live.These two tunes Chris (tenor guitar/mandola) and I recorded tonight in my kitchen. They...
@Robin Clark started 16 years ago - replies: 39
the worst thing possible in a playing session....
Ok, this is a two part question for beginners....1) As a beginner, what's the worst thing that ever happened to you in a jam session? And how did...
@Strumelia started 16 years ago - replies: 10
Single mic' technique
We had a gig in Bala last night at the Plas Coch pub. It was a pretty typical Saturday night pub gig! Bala was full of folk, young and old, out...
@Robin Clark started 16 years ago - replies: 5
Sugar Baby (Red Rocking Chair)
Dock Bogg's recording names the tune Sugar Baby. It's also known as Red Rocking Chair.
@Robin Thompson started 16 years ago - replies: 20
Sandy Boys
Ok Flint, you asked for it! How about sharing some versions of Sandy Boys? When a group from our Dulcimer Society practiced it for a gig last week,...
@TERI WEST started 16 years ago - replies: 30
Wayfaring Stranger
Wayfaring Stranger is a popular Southern US spiritual song. A reasonable approximation of the tune appears as "Judgment" in Ananias...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 11
Found a Lovely Old Diatonic MD
A fiddle playing friend of mine gave me a call today and said he had been clearing out his uncle's house and found a load of old instruments,...
@Robin Clark started 16 years ago - replies: 9