Mark Gilston

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Location: Cedar Park, TX
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musician/member name: Mark Gilston
Duration: 00:02:34
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Mark Gilston plays an old time tune from North Carolina on a 5 string treble-bass mountain dulcimer.
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Gordon Hardy
07/19/19 06:54:43PM @gordon-hardy:

That is a great sounding dulcimer, Mark!


arttimes
07/19/19 04:37:21PM @arttimes:

Love it!


Mark Gilston
07/19/19 01:25:50PM @mark-gilston:

It's a very interesting dulcimer.  It's a double backed Modern Mountain Dulcimer tuned in DAD with an extra low D and an extra low A so it combines a standard DAD with a bass DAD.  None of the strings are doubled.  However the strings are quite close together, so muting unwanted strings becomes an integral part of the right hand playing technique (sort of like a concert zither).

Dusty Turtle:

That's a cool tune but an even more interesting instrument.  Can you tell us more about it?  Tuned an octave lower?  Which strings are doubled?


Dusty Turtle
07/19/19 01:14:40PM @dusty:

That's a cool tune but an even more interesting instrument.  Can you tell us more about it?  Tuned an octave lower?  Which strings are doubled?