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@ken-hulme
• 2 weeks ago
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Posted a response to "Clemmer Peg head":
Posted a response to "Clemmer Peg head":
"@shannonmilan -- you do realize this conversation is over two years old, don't you."
@ken-hulme
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Bodhran (Irish Drum)":
Posted a response to "Bodhran (Irish Drum)":
"Nice Marsha! Decades ago I played bass drum with Scottish Pipe Bands. Then a couple years before Covid I occasionally played dulcimer along with friends in..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Reasons NOT To Get a Chromatic":
Posted a response to "Reasons NOT To Get a Chromatic":
"@ocean-daughter. If you tune a Bagpipe tuning: Ddd or Ccc for example, you can play both Ionian/Mixolydian and Aeolian/Dorian modal scales *without* having..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Richard Krueger Psaltery":
Posted a response to "Richard Krueger Psaltery":
"That's a Bowed Psaltery, not a plucked psaltery. And a very nice BP it is too! The BP was supposed developed in post-WWII Germany by a violin teacher trying..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "general instrument question":
Posted a response to "general instrument question":
"The song dates back to the 1930s at least, and does not appear to be copyright protected. No dulcimer tab I could find. Best to sing/hum/whistle the tune..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "How precisely do you tune up?":
Posted a response to "How precisely do you tune up?":
"Since I seldom play with others and I'm not haunted by perfect pitch or ADHD, as long as nothing is too sharp or flat, "in the vicinity of..." work for me. "
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "general instrument question":
Posted a response to "general instrument question":
"Like John I've not heard of Stephens Lutherie. And I also agree with John that there is no one Perfect Dulcimer, ... there is only what YOU find best for..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Just For Fun - sayings regarding the dulcimer or music":
Posted a response to "Just For Fun - sayings regarding the dulcimer or music":
"@shanonmilan --the vast majority of us (traditionalists and moderns) play dulcimer horizontally -- "string side up" on our laps or on a table or stand...."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "1970 M12R Signed by L. Mcspadden":
Posted a response to "1970 M12R Signed by L. Mcspadden":
"The signature by L McSpadden really doesn't mean much. It is known that the building team took turns signing batches of labels that got stock 'wherever',..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Vintage dulcimer information sought ":
Posted a response to "Vintage dulcimer information sought ":
"* I'm not sure either of those bridges is 'real' -- they are both far too long and extend way past the sides of the fretboard, making it difficult to play..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Reasons NOT To Get a Chromatic":
Posted a response to "Reasons NOT To Get a Chromatic":
"If it has more than diatonic frets, or more than 3 courses of strings, technically an instrument is no longer a dulcimer, it is a Fretted Zither. "Tomay-to..."
@ken-hulme
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "New instruments that I have no clue about!":
Posted a response to "New instruments that I have no clue about!":
"Here's my take. The triangle is, as John sez, a Russian balalaiki. The light topped round body is a bouzouki (either Greek or Irish). The light rectangle..."