I love playing lap dulcimer, banjo, epinette, pennywhistle, Cretan Lyra, bones, limberjacks....mostly play old-time tunes, minstrel era tunes, and medieval tunes..
Love my fiddling husband, contra dancing, and playing with our cats. And my honeybees. :)
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My Blog on playing traditional style Noter/Drone style mountain dulcimer, including over 30 FREE noter style TABS and video instructions:
Strumelia's Noter Drone dulcimer BLOG
I also run a site for selling music-themed t-shirts: https://harmonias.com/
And a site for penny whistle players: https://pennywhistleclub.com/
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AllTell us your reason for choosing a chromatic dulcimer!
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It's not much, Lisa, but I so appreciate you hosting this forum, your helpful comments and responses, and your great teaching videos.
thanks,
for it to resurface again, I was hoping maybe there was a way - maybe someone at that time had downloaded it.
no worries,
m.
Hi
On the Home page, right below your posting today was an oder download from a new member @tatts - but from '14
( ( Liked a group discussions item created by @john-astor : Free Fingerpicking Album to download for all!)
Can I still download this, I get an error. Any clues or any other way that you know of?
Hope you are well, I did have a few players come play music on my porch last Saturday.
thanks for all you do,
marg
My email address hasn't changed for 20 years. Must be working because I got a notification today in my email!
Hallo Strumelia,
es freut mich sehr,dass Du mein Clip angeschaut hast.
Vielen Dank für Dein +
Hi Strumelia, Ithink I upgraded my email. Please re-send your comments to see if they come through. Thanks, Delcinina
I hope this is the right box to comment in? Yes Strumelia I saw your comment, thanks. It just seems that when I want to ask a question in the dulcimer builders group, there's no comment box or 'Post new question' type box.
Nige
Morning,
Listening to some of the recent videos & audio recordings this morning before I get ready to go preform at a Senior Tea, I was thinking how beautiful some are.
Had you ever thought of putting some on a CD as a fund raiser? The members already have them recorded, with permission there could be a good number ready to go.
I'm sure many with FOTMD would love to have a collection of dulcimer music from people they know, our members.
Just a thought, something we all would enjoy & a way to help $$ toward FOTMD
Hi Strumelia ... thank you for the compliment. The dulcimer is a Blue Lion. Winter is my favorite time of year so Janita and I spent quite a bit of time with the design. Janita did the beautiful inlay. She is nothing short of amazing! She aptly named the dulcimer Winter!! The picture does not show the entire winter scene.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll maybe tweak the review a bit and then post it to that group.
CHeers
As the app is not mine, and I have no way of knowing what revenues are generated, I have deleted the post. Thanks for your quick response.
Cheers
Hi Strumelia - where and how can I post info about my forthcoming US tour - I have posters and flyers and hyperlinks to blog posts ... ? thnx - Dan
Thanks for the info on notifications. I had no idea I had everything switched off - I thought that after the site migrated we just didn't get email notifications anymore!!!!! I've switched them all to email notification now and I'll see how that goes. Thanks