Ken Hulme

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Ken Hulme
@ken-hulme • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Clemmer Peg head":
"@shannonmilan -- you do realize this conversation is over two years old, don't you."
Ken Hulme
@ken-hulme • one month ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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
@ken-hulme • 2 months ago • comments: 0
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..."
 
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