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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

Don Neuhauser TMB video

Here's a youtube video of Don playing a reproduction Tennessee music box that he made:
@Strumelia started 9 years ago - replies: 1

Joni Mitchell's "Carey", Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

I left my Joni Mitchell and Jim Croce records in a drawer together, and this is what came out. A little mashup I call "Bad Carey." Be sure to...
@Sam Edelston started 9 years ago - replies: 0

Just scored some nice Butternut

Today was my 60th birthday and my 92 yr.old mother bought me this piece of Butternut. If I do it right should get a few dulcimers from this....
@Kevin Messenger started 9 years ago - replies: 10

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell cover

worked out an accompaniment low enough to sing (it's TOUGH).My new McSpadden Baritone tuned to A#-F-A#. Still a little rough but got through it...
@Janene Millen started 9 years ago - replies: 4