Group Discussions
Advice for a lousy (and stage-frightened) singer?
Just had our annual Coffehouse at the Hills of Kentucky Dulcimers. A great concert full of memorable performances.I had worked hard on singing "And...
@Tom McDonald started 16 years ago - replies: 17
Wayfaring Stranger
I figured this out by ear, and didn't write out any chords or tab. It's still a work in progress. This dulcimer is restrung with banjo strings to...
@Tom McDonald started 16 years ago - replies: 41
Picture Gallery
Do you have a zitter you bow? If so, this is the place to show-off your instrument. (If you're holding or playing the instrument, so much the...
@Robin Thompson started 16 years ago - replies: 9
A Tool for Cutting Fret Slots with Super Accuracy
I've been developing a fret cutting template that can be created for any scale length (two scales, one on each side of a 1/8"x1-1/2" aluminum bar)....
@Dwain Wilder started 16 years ago - replies: 2
Frailing a dulcimer?
Does anybody use frailing-like, banjo-inspired picking on a dulcimer or has anyone written about it? Seems like it's something that someone would...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 9
noter/drone videos
Hey ya'll, I hope it is OK to put this here? I've posted 3 new videos on our YouTube channel. Two of these are Ionian mode tunes in G, (G-D-D...
@Kendra Ward started 16 years ago - replies: 9
fiddle tunes
Is there a fiddle tune you like that doesn't translate well to noter-style dulcimer play?
@Robin Thompson started 16 years ago - replies: 5
O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
"O bury Me Not", also known as "The Dying Cowboy", starts out as "The Ocean Burial", an 1839 poem by Edward Hubbell Chapin, in which a...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 9
June Apple
Versions of the tune with which I'm most familiar include those by Jerry Rockwell (in a medley of Goin' to Boston/June Apple/ Harrison Town/Old Joe...
@Robin Thompson started 16 years ago - replies: 14
Little Black Train
Little Black Train is a fire-and-brimstone spiritual song from the Holiness movement. I know little about the origin of the tune or lyrics except...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 5