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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
Noter and metal finger picks on a Galax dulcimer -- request for comments.
I'm attaching a ~50-second clip of Wayfaring Stranger and would love to know your reaction. I have practiced it so much that I can barely hear it...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 14
Red River Valley
This group is a great idea, but unfortunately one without a lot of activity. I've decided to do my part to fix that.I recorded this fairly stripped...
@Tom McDonald started 16 years ago - replies: 8
Shady Grove
There are a lot of versions of this song on YouTube. Here is one more.
@Tom McDonald started 16 years ago - replies: 32
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