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@jim-yates
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "A Question about dulcimer popularity...":
Posted a response to "A Question about dulcimer popularity...":
"Since I learned from Jean's column and before the 6+ fret became standard, I use DAA tuning most of the time. I find chording easier (probably because I'm..."
@jim-yates
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "A Question about dulcimer popularity...":
Posted a response to "A Question about dulcimer popularity...":
"I first became interested in the mountain dulcimer after reading a Teach-In by Jean Ritchie in Sing Out! magazine in the early sixties. Soon after that I..."
@jim-yates
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Tuners":
Posted a response to "Tuners":
"Here's a point about the damage that can be caused by leaving a clip on tuner fastened to your instrument. There are solvents in the plastic or rubber pads..."
@jim-yates
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Dulcimer music tab for rounds":
Posted a response to "Dulcimer music tab for rounds":
"I recall Music Alone Shall Live as a 3 dulcimer round at our local folk club back before the turn of the century. We used DAA tuning. Music Alone Shall..."
@jim-yates
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Hammered Dulcimer EXR":
Posted a response to "Hammered Dulcimer EXR":
"When I was hitchhiking in Ireland in the late sixties, I was picked up by this guy and taken to a fleadh cheoil in New Ross. When I got into the car..."
@jim-yates
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Balalaika, the most Russianist of Russian instruments":
Posted a response to "Balalaika, the most Russianist of Russian instruments":
"My brother Bob has a yard sale balalaika that he got a few decades ago. Since he had no idea how to play or tune it and he got it before everyone had..."
@jim-yates
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Any body have an idea what this is ?":
Posted a response to "Any body have an idea what this is ?":
"Sorry, I see there is no edit option. My second paragraph should have been:Traditional dulcimers are fretted diatonically. If "W" is "whole tone" and "H"..."
@jim-yates
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Any body have an idea what this is ?":
Posted a response to "Any body have an idea what this is ?":
"It's a little late to be adding to this thread, but I was surprised that no one had mentioned the way Mick's dulcimer is fretted.Traditional dulcimers are..."