Timeline Entry

Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 7 hours ago • comments: 1
Posted a new Comment on @james-bryant:
"Welcome to FOTMD, James. It is good to have you aboard. This is friendly and knowledgeable group of mountain dulcimer enthusiasts. Have some fun exploring..."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 7 hours ago • comments: 1
Posted a new Comment on @laurenstup:
"Welcome to FOTMD, Laurenstup. It's always good to have another Pennsylvanian aboard and someone from Pittsburgh. I lived on the North Side for short time...."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 7 hours ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Tab for Goddesses 1651":
"Well, I've achieved some success. I found sheet music for The Goddesses by Playford at MuseScore. There is a piano arrangement in Gm and a violin arrangement..."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 7 hours ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Tab for Goddesses 1651":
"The Dancing Master is a book of dance tunes by John Playford's published in1651.   The book went through 18 editions if I recall correctly. Here is a link..."
Lilley Pad
@lilley-pad • 8 hours ago • comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Tab for Goddesses 1651":
"I think I need help trying to locate a tab for a song from the 1651 I believe the name of the tune is  Goddesses?   Someone said that it's also called..."
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 13 hours ago • comments: 1
Liked a music item created by @davisjames: Walking down the busking trail.
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 13 hours ago • comments: 1
Posted a new Comment on Walking down the busking trail.:
"You've got a good song there, Jamie!  I hope it's gotten paper money tossed into your instrument case on the sidewalk.  "
DavisJames
@davisjames • 13 hours ago • comments: 1
Created a new Audio File:
Walking down the busking trail.
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 14 hours ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Box Dulcimer Project":
"I wish you great success with your project, Richard!  "
Strumelia
@strumelia • 21 hours ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Box Dulcimer Project":
"What a generous and thoughtful project to help the people who can't afford most dulcimers these days, Richard.  I love that you are doing this."
Dusty Turtle
@dusty • yesterday • comments: 0
Liked a youtube item created by @mark-gilston: La Sansonette
DavisJames
@davisjames • yesterday • comments: 0
Liked a youtube item created by @mark-gilston: Por Que No?
Mark Gilston
@mark-gilston • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted new YouTube video(s):
La Sansonette
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 2 days ago • comments: 1
Liked a youtube item created by @martin-oesterle: Duo Dulcimus "Kleine Medley"
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 2 days ago • comments: 1
Posted a new Comment on Duo Dulcimus "Kleine Medley":
"I love this!  And that elaborate cow limberjack is very cool!  "
Martin Oesterle
@martin-oesterle • 2 days ago • comments: 1
Posted new YouTube video(s):
Duo Dulcimus "Kleine Medley"
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 2 days ago • comments: 3
Posted a new Comment on Melodies from Czech broadside ballads for DAD Dulcimer :
"These are nice tunes! "
Anne Bowman
@anne-bowman • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Box Dulcimer Project":
"I wish you were here, DownUnder. That's exactly what we need to grow the community here.. It's so generous of you."
Dusty Turtle
@dusty • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Alex, the "reverse" tuning of a strumstick relative to a dulcimer does not impede the playing of exactly the same music note-for-note.  It is merely an issue..."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Alex, you can learn a great deal about the Strumstick by going to this website . Bob McNally is the originator of this instrument. Note that he does not..."
Strumelia
@strumelia • 2 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Alex_Lubet: I suspected they were in "guitar order" and you folk confirmed that.  Maybe I'm being silly, but that disappoints me, as I bought my first..."
Richard Streib
@richard-streib • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Box Dulcimer Project":
"I also hope it is successful, Dusty Turtle. All we can do to promote the dulcimer is good."
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Liked a forum discussions item created by @richard-streib: Box Dulcimer Project
Alex_Lubet
@alex-lubet • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Thanks, all.  Online information tends to be confusing about the order of the tuning of the strings, but I suspected they were in "guitar order" and you folk..."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Liked a forum discussions item created by @richard-streib: Box Dulcimer Project
Strumelia
@strumelia • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Liked a forum discussions item created by @richard-streib: Box Dulcimer Project
Strumelia
@strumelia • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"That video of Amy Grant is a very touching, sweet but sad song.  Makes me nostalgic for the old times."
Dusty Turtle
@dusty • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Box Dulcimer Project":
"That's a laudable effort, Richard.  Thank you.  For many years David Lynch made a student model dulcimer that sold for around that same price point ($125)...."
Dusty Turtle
@dusty • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Alex, most strumsticks are tuned like dulcimers but with the bass and melody string reversed, so the bass string is on the top if held as a guitar or closest..."
Richard Streib
@richard-streib • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Box Dulcimer Project":
"I am launching the Box Dulcimer Project.  The goal of the Box Dulcimer Project is to offer new players an affordable mountain dulcimer, without having to..."
Alex_Lubet
@alex-lubet • 4 days ago • comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Amy Grant: Carolina in My Mind":
"Hi All,  Here's a new video from Amy Grant on which she plays strumstick, which, as you all know, is a child or grandchild of the mountain dulcimer: I think..."
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 4 days ago • comments: 3
Posted a new Comment on Moon and Clouds:
"Thanks, fellas!  We're happy y'all liked the tune, @dan and @dusty!   When one of our nieces heard the audio version of the tune some days ago-- Mark's..."
Richard Streib
@richard-streib • 4 days ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on @pietru:
"Welcome Pietru to Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer. Glad you joined. This is an active community with some wonderful folks. Join right in and enjoy all the..."
Dusty Turtle
@dusty • 4 days ago • comments: 3
Posted a new Comment on Moon and Clouds:
"Such sensitive playing!  Beautiful tune.  Parts of it have a medieval feel."
olddog75
@olddog75 • 4 days ago • comments: 3
Liked a youtube item created by @robin-thompson: Moon and Clouds
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