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@sylvia
• 18 hours ago
• comments: 21
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
"Well DAD has struck! My second instrument is a Folkcraft cardboard dulcimer in DAA mode. A dear friend is assembling it for me. So now I have the Ginger,..."
@sylvia
• 19 hours ago
• comments: 21
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
"I didn’t see the photos at first, but now I do. What a wonderful experience you and your friends must have had. Richard
,s dulcimer is very handsome.
thank..."
@sylvia
• one week ago
• comments: 21
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
"Ken, please tell me more about the Smithsonian visit and getting to play Richard Farina's dulcimer. Were you there at the behest of the Smithsonian?..."
@sylvia
• one week ago
• comments: 11
Posted a new Comment on @john-petry:
Posted a new Comment on @john-petry:
"Well I accept your kind offer.
Thank you so much,
warm regards
Sylvia Bailey
210 Hancock St., Apt. 303
Ithaca, NY 14850"
@sylvia
• one week ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on Just starting out, have a question:
Posted a new Comment on Just starting out, have a question:
"Good morning, beginner player here with McSpadden Ginger. 2 weeks in to this journey I see that drone/ noter is going to suit me well. 2 questions: my left..."
@sylvia
• one week ago
• comments: 21
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
"A chromatic tuner app helped me a lot. Now I can tune it quickly and I’m not afraid to snap those melody strings."
@sylvia
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 21
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
"Richard,
Thanks for your helpful and thoughtful comments. Yes, already had a hit of DAD. Haven't had my first instrument for 2 weeks yet. It will have to..."
@sylvia
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 21
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
"Thanks to everyone for their comments. Ken, are you the Ken who authored A Beginners Guide? What a wealth of information. Now I know what D4 means and..."
@sylvia
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 21
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
Posted a new Comment on Help with tuning?:
"Richard, thank you! I’m a rank beginner. I learned very helpful info from your response. Yes , It makes good sense to start with the strings slack and then..."
@sylvia
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 21
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@sylvia
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 21
Created a new Group discussion "Help with tuning?":
Created a new Group discussion "Help with tuning?":
"I am having a devil of a time tuning my new Dulcimer. It’s a McSpadden Ginger model, D-A-dd. I have an ordered an Snark electronic tuner . for now I’m..."
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@sylvia
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 528
Posted a new Comment on @ken-longfield:
Posted a new Comment on @ken-longfield:
"Hi Ken,
I appreciate the welcome. As a beginner I am going to use the D A dd tuning. "