Group Discussions
A Bump in the Road
When I started playing the noter way I had trouble getting over the frets I didn't want to play on my way to the fret I did want to play...w/o the...
@Randy Adams started 8 years ago - replies: 2
Bagpipe tuning and it's versatility
A while ago, I posted a clip of Boil Them Cabbage Down, where I started it off in the key of D, then switched to key of G, then ended it back in...
@James Phillips started 9 years ago - replies: 5
Easy Christmas songs?
My son has been playing for one week now and is actually doing pretty well. He can play "Boil Them Cabbage Down" which may not seem like much but...
@shawn wright started 9 years ago - replies: 9
Size of Music Wire?
What number of "music wire" are you buying to make strings the equivalent of 10ga package strings? What about 18 gauge plain package strings?...
@Ken Hulme started 9 years ago - replies: 5
AW Jeffreys pick
Back in 1972 when I bought my first dulcimer I knew nothing about how to play it. Jeffereys sent me this strange looking pick. Nothing like the...
@robert schuler started 9 years ago - replies: 9
Donald Graves - 28 Aug 1942 - 14 Apr 2014
It was with great sadness that I read on ED that Donald Graves past away a few weeks ago. Don was the great grandson of John Mawhee who...
@Robin Clark started 10 years ago - replies: 6
Uncloudy Day
I was asked for help on playing the old hymn "Uncloudy/Unclouded Day" in noter style. Here's a link to a video lesson which I hope will be of...
@Rob N Lackey started 9 years ago - replies: 4
Skills for playing Galax style
Are any particular skills or techniques needed to play Galax dulcimer a as opposed to playing regular noter drone style?
@Steve Battarbee started 9 years ago - replies: 13
Are noter players troublemakers?
Hello,I am beginning to wonder if being a noter player makes me automatically a troublemaker? It seems that every time someone posts something...
@Kendra Ward started 14 years ago - replies: 213
Thomas repro. For Lexie.
Here is the sound file for Lexie on the Thomas Repro. I just finished for her. I am tuned somewhere around EBB . The dulcimer is all Walnut...
@Kevin Messenger started 9 years ago - replies: 23
Red Wing - Mawhee Dulcimer
I was searching for more info on the Mawhee dulcimers today and came across this page about Bill Graves. There's an audio clip at the bottom...
@Robin Clark started 9 years ago - replies: 12
Musings on Modes for the Noter Drone Player
What on earth are modes? Well, it's a good question, so I'll try and put 'modes' and how we use them on the dulcimer into some sort of...
@Robin Clark started 9 years ago - replies: 14
Jessie James - Mawhee repro dulcimer - 18 Mar 15
I received one Kevin Messenger's lovely Mawhee replica dulcimers this morning. The tune Jessie James is running in Call the Tune at present...
@Robin Clark started 9 years ago - replies: 52
How to Master the Quill ?
What is your technique ? Do you emery board your Quill or trimming it ? asI strum I get it hung up !
@Sue Simms started 14 years ago - replies: 8
Donald Graves show trimming & using a feather as a pectrum
" target="_self" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Folks I see people using a feather as aplectrumwith the butt end down and some say thatthis...
@Lexie R Oakley started 9 years ago - replies: 8
Sweet Bye and Bye - McSpadden
A simple version of Sweet Bye and Bye in DAA noter drone on my modified walnut McSpadden with guitar backing. Hosted by...
@Robin Clark started 9 years ago - replies: 11
Boulavogue - Clifford Glen dulcimer
Tull Glazener has posted the TABs for Boulavogue as his tune of the month over on Everything Dulcimer. You can find all the details on his...
@Robin Clark started 9 years ago - replies: 8
Miss McLeod's Reel by Fiddle Whamdiddle (Vi Wickam and Steve Eulberg)
Here is a video of our performance of this Scottish-American tune with fiddle and Galax mountain dulcimer with noter and turkey quill at the...
@Steve Eulberg started 9 years ago - replies: 11
Cedar Swamp - Amburgey Dulcimer
I was listening to the old 1953 (I think?) recordings of Jean Ritchie this morning made by Alan Lomax and there is a little track called...
@Robin Clark started 9 years ago - replies: 9