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@shopdad • 14 minutes ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"Sorry to hear about your wife. Hopefully she's on the mend and back to normal. Prioritize is the key. You did well. Many of my projects a wife (working on 62..."

@ken-longfield • 33 minutes ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"All of my work on building musical instruments goes on in my basement workshop. Last year after my wife's hip replacement surgery and a fall that sent her to..."

@ken-longfield • 43 minutes ago • comments: 0
Liked an events item created by @wally-venable: Fort New Salem Dulcimer Fest (WV)

@strumelia • an hour ago • comments: 0
Liked an events item created by @wally-venable: Fort New Salem Dulcimer Fest (WV)

@shopdad • 2 hours ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "What Are You Working On?":

"About a year ago I heard a group playing Fancy Gap Breakdown. I sniffed around and heard several other groups play it and figured I needed to learn it. While..."

@shopdad • 2 hours ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"Thanks Ken, My Dither project has taken a back seat for a while. I'm waiting for some wood to dry out before making the panels. Between the kids and wife I..."

@ken-longfield • 3 hours ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"That looks like a really fun project. Very creative. Thanks for sharing it with us. Ken "The dulcimer sings a sweet song.""

@aknight53 • 16 hours ago • comments: 538
Posted a new Comment on @ken-longfield:

"Thank you for the welcome, my dulcimer should come tomorrow, I hope I chose correctly! I'll be back with questions, I'm sure."

@aknight53 • 16 hours ago • comments: 377
Posted a new Comment on @richard-streib:

"Thank you, I have a lot to learn. My instrument is coming tomorrow! I'm sure I'll have lots of questions."

@richard-streib • 20 hours ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on @aknight53:

"Glad you joined Aknight53. Welcome to Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer. There is lot of good information here and some great folks. Let us know how we can..."

@wally-venable • yesterday • comments: 0

Is attending an Event:
Fort New Salem Dulcimer Fest (WV)

@wally-venable • yesterday • comments: 0

Created a new Event:
Fort New Salem Dulcimer Fest (WV)

@noah-cline • 2 days ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Miss MacMurray (Carolan):

"DavisJames: This sounds great.Yet another O'Carolan melody I'd not heard before. Thanks! Kind of a melancholic but sweet melody. "

@shopdad • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"Right now it's on the dinning room wall. As soon as I get the hooks solid enough on the outside wall, in the courtyard, it will hang out there. It has..."

@strumelia • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"Well that's pretty cool. Is it going to turn in the wind? Where will you put it?"

@shopdad • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"The Betsey Ross 250 anniversary flag, Just finished in time before the end of July. The torch-burned center piece makes it appear old and tattered. The..."

@alex-lubet • 2 days ago

@alex-lubet is now following @john-petry

@shopdad • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Positive Thread...":

"That's a cool story. I grafted an avocado tree. I kept two and gave one to a friend. His grew nicely with plenty of fruit. Mine didn't take and became nice..."

@davisjames • 2 days ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Miss MacMurray (Carolan):

"This sounds great.Yet another O'Carolan melody I'd not heard before."

@dusty • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Positive Thread...":

"Hey @Shopdad, my wife and I have some raised beds for vegetables, too. No corn, though. We have tons of tomatoes and zucchini as well as some peppers and..."

@tonyg • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"Wow....that's funny Ken......I do a very similar thing: when I'm in bagpipe tuning, I take an uncut cap, and slide it under both drone strings which gives..."

@ken-longfield • 2 days ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on @aknight53:

"Welcome to FOTMD, Aknight53. It is good to have you aboard. You will learn a great deal about the mountain dulcimer by exploring this site. If you have any..."

@ken-longfield • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"While I don't play in the key of often, there are few tunes that do play in A. When I do I use a reverse capo to raise the D string to E. I've attached a..."

@strumelia • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"I'm not so sure it is " not more popular with traditional players". I've used the 'reverse' often. It's really just a slight variation of an open tuning,..."

@tonyg • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"I had an afterthought that's kinda related: I'm most often tuned Bbb bagpipes tuning, which allows me to play either ionian or mixolydian without retuning...."

@tonyg • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"I don't have occasion to play with others, so the actual key I'm in in unimportant. Usually I'm tuned Ebb, so I just drop the first and middle strings to a...."

@shopdad • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Positive Thread...":

"Hello dusty, I'm just catching up on some past posts. I miss FOTMD and get busy with so many other things. I haven't heard of the expression either (two in a..."

@shopdad • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Happy Birthday America":

"I usually enjoy making something in my shop to express or celebrate any occasion. I made a Betsey Ross flag for the 250th celebration. Oops! its a video too..."

@strumelia • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"You seldom go wrong if your tuning contains both the tonic/key note (note "1" in your scale) and the 5th note of your scale. So if you are playing in the..."

@shopdad • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "How are you dealing with the HEAT WAVES?":

"I'm in central Florida, it's hot. A normal day is upper 90's around 2 or 3 PM then cools off into the low 90's. That's a perfect set up for afternoon storms...."

@strumelia • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"Dusty gave a great explanation of your 'reverse' tuning Tony. One thing I'd like to add is that one reason people use it is because it helps avoid having to..."

@dusty • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Eaa Tuning":

"Hey @tonyg, I assume the E is your bass string. If so, that would be considered a "reverse" mixolydian tuning because you are in the key of A but the bass..."

@tonyg • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Eaa Tuning":

"I don't find much about Eaa mixolydian tuning and was wondering why since it lends itself to traditional no chords style playing?"

@richard-streib • 3 days ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on @jfox:

"So glad you joined JFox. Like Kenl, I look forward to seeing all of your dulcimers that you have for sale. Best wishes on rehoming all of them."

@robin-thompson • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Liked a youtube item created by @ondrej: Jewish songs songs for DAD Dulcimer

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