Group Discussions
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
Tunes and their modes
I am compiling a list of traditional mountain dulcimer tunes by the mode they are played in and I need your help.For example:Aeolian:Shady...
@Kendra Ward started 16 years ago - replies: 23
Pretty Saro in D tuning: What key and mode?
This is a long reply to Julie Elman's question about the key and mode of Pretty Saro when it is played in D tuning. B. Ross Ashley gave some...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 20
When is enough enough?
When do you decide that you are in enough pain that you need to stop what you are doing? Are you smart and say enough's enough at the first sharp...
@folkfan started 16 years ago - replies: 11
Zoom H2 & 2 instruments
Mark and I have recorded music with him playing guitar and me playing bowed dulcimer. We can't seem to get the balance quite right as far as volume...
@Robin Thompson started 16 years ago - replies: 7