Group Discussions
Any Photos or Video from Halsway Manor Week?
Does anyone have any photos or video from the Halsway Manor week they'd like to share? Paul Crocker send me this photo of Stephen Seifert and me...
@Robin Clark started 9 years ago - replies: 0
Substitute for a turkey quill?
Hi everyone. Recently on Fotmd videos i watched John Henry play Pretty Betty Martin using a turkey quill. I liked this unique old-fashioned sound...
@John W. McKinstry started 9 years ago - replies: 3
Stopping the Stupid Look. Basics for Jam?
My techie sons tell me that ELI5 means "Explain it like I'm Five years old" and I need some dulcimer help at that level. I recently went to a...
@Ellen Rice started 9 years ago - replies: 8
Josiah Combs
Don't know if this has been mentioned on here before; I couldn't find anything about it. Here's a link to pamphlet by Josiah Combs about the...
@Rob N Lackey started 9 years ago - replies: 6
remembering Jean Ritchie- Smithsonian Folkways
http://www.folkways.si.edu/remembering-jean-ritchie/music/playlist/smithsonian
@Robin Thompson started 9 years ago - replies: 4
Dulcimer Discovery Workshop Experiment
Hi everyone, A dulcimer student of mine is a children's librarian and she asked me to do a month's long,a 4 session introduction to the Mt....
@John W. McKinstry started 9 years ago - replies: 0
Pritchard Dulcimer at The Met!
http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/of-note/2015/appalachian-dulcimer
@Stewart McCormick started 9 years ago - replies: 7
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (again)
Lynette pulls your name out of a hat. Just like that, you're in an ad-hoc band, and playing a three-song set after a good solid five minutes of...
@Tom McDonald started 9 years ago - replies: 3
Rediscovering Ionian while in D A d' tuning
I have just rediscovered that you can play Ionian tunes while in the D A d' tuning by using the middle string. You can harmonize with the bass...
@John W. McKinstry started 9 years ago - replies: 2
All-Walnut Thomas Hourglass
Here is my latest dulcimer, finished just minutes ago. Its name is "Meditation". I tried to get it as close as possible to an original Thomas...
@John C. Knopf started 9 years ago - replies: 10