I had no idea Uke had a d tuning! Seems like everyone plays out of C. One of these days I'm going to get a Uke...probably banjo Uke and experiment. Love the sound!

Ukulele and MD went together quite well!
It's especially easy for ukulele players who use the "older" soprano adf#b-tuning (D-tuning) instead of the gcea (C-tuning) that is common almost everywhere now...

Thanks for listening and for your comments!

That sounds great Goschi! Looks like you guys had a good time! I had a class at Kentucky Music Week this summer with Butch Ross and it was Ukulele and MD. It was a class where we learned Beatles songs. We had a blast! You guys keep up the good work!

Peter, thanks for the link. I saw the pictures. That is a pretty dulcimer!!!

Thank you very much, Cheryl, Helen and Miriam!

@Miriam - We missed you! Hope your recording went well. Next time you'll be with us again!

Hi Peter. A shame that I could not come. That sounds so lovely together.

Fantastic!! The Ukes sounded really nice in combo with dulcimers. How fun!

Thank you all for listening and for your friendly comments.

Yes, I have been busy with other things during the summer so I was not present regularly here on FOTMD. Thanks for not having forgotten me! :)

We enjoyed that day of music yesterday very much and I had been looking forward to it for many weeks!

I was able to add a few new songs to my stock of "just-play-it-by-heart"-songs and we had a lot of fun also.

@Patty: Yes, Martin (the gentleman in the back) is a Mountain Dulcimer protagonist. He also runs a little online shop (not as his main profession of course) and sells dulcimers.

He teaches the dulcimer and he is also very busy with playing the dulcimer as a street musician. So he wanted to have an instrument with more volume without needing electric amplification. So he designed his own idea of a dulcimer and had it built by a luthier. There are more pictures of the prototype (with a kind of triangular soundhole) and of the instrument he had with him yesterday (with the oval soundhole) on this website:

http://dulcimershop.de/konzertdulcimer.html

His dulcimer is really loud, but also it has a great range of different sounds depending on where you strum and how you strum.

GREAT!!!!

Peter, this is great!!! I missed you posting videos. Thanks for posting this. That's a nice group photo too. The gentleman in the back row in the middle is holding an instrument that looks a bit different than the usual dulcimer. Can you tell us more about it?

A job well done!

Bravo, bravo! Y'all sound really good there, Peter.

Just to give a sign of life from the German mountain dulcimer scene: we had a small gathering today (with a partly different lineup than last time - and with two dulcimer-friendly ukulele players) and recorded that well-known standard. Enjoy!