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Luigi
@luigi • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Randy Adams
@randy-adams • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
"@dusty The environmental degradation from clear cut logging, deep coal mining, coal strip mining, drilling, and, to a lesser degree, the mining of clay, is..."
Dusty Turtle
@dusty • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
"Robin, this is a striking tune.  It does not have the relaxing, meditative feel of most of your compositions, but rather an urgent, ominous feel.  That range..."
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
"Hey, @nate -- thanks a bunch for listening and for the nice comment!     We started and stopped mostly together so that always makes for a successful tune...."
Nate
@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Nate
@nate • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
"What you might describe as "timing difficulty" I would describe as expression. Love the song Robin"
Ben Barr Jr
@benjamin-w-barr-jr • 2 weeks ago • comments: 4
Posted a new Comment on @wanative07:
"Hi Wanative07, and welcome to the wonderful world of the Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer.  It's a good place to come, spend some time, learn about the..."
Frank Dudgeon
@frank-dudgeon • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Frank Dudgeon
@frank-dudgeon • 3 weeks ago • comments: 2
Liked a youtube item created by @mark-gilston: Peasant Dance
Phil Myers
@phil-myers • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Phil Myers
@phil-myers • 3 weeks ago • comments: 6
Posted a new Comment on Music Room:
"The small dulcimer that looks like a  scheitholt is a Cousin Clem dulcimer built by Mike Clemmer. The dulcimer by the guitars is a Tom Yockey built in 2005"
Phil Myers
@phil-myers • 3 weeks ago • comments: 6
Posted a new Comment on Music Room:
"That is a bass scheitholt built by Jack Ferguson. I love it! I’m playing it on that video of Be Thou My Vision"
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
"@dan & @ken-longfield Thank you, fellows, for listening and for your kind comments!   There are folks who have worked to help clean the waters yet there..."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
"Sounds great, Robin. Living between to areas where mining was an important part of the economy I see the environmental problems almost every day. We did have..."
Dan
@dan • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
"Bravo! The good news is I can't keep time so it sounds perfect to me...."
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
Created a new Audio File:
All the Abandoned Mines
Mark Gilston
@mark-gilston • 3 weeks ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Peasant Dance:
"DavisJames: Very cool.I bet Morris dancers would like this( that thing they do with the sticks).   Yes, it does have a Morris-y rhythm to it. I was..."
DavisJames
@davisjames • 3 weeks ago • comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Peasant Dance:
"Very cool.I bet Morris dancers would like this( that thing they do with the sticks)."
Nate
@nate • 3 weeks ago • comments: 5
Posted a new Comment on Livi:
"DavisJames: It also sounds like mandolin(doubled strings).Do you have percussion in the background?Whatever it is,it works.   Thank you jamie thats nice of..."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Just String info.":
"Dwain gave you a very good run down on the various aspects of wound strings. In the end, if you experiment with different strings, it all depends on the..."
Dwain Wilder
@dwain-wilder • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Just String info.":
"Lilley Pad: Hey kids, here we go again. I think this musical journey is starting to hurt my head. any one out there know of a good website or link about..."
Richard Streib
@richard-streib • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Just String info.":
"Only one of my current dulcimers uses a wound bass string. I have always preferred a nickel wound string when a wound string is called for. A string is a..."
Lilley Pad
@lilley-pad • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Just String info.":
"Hey kids, here we go again. I think this musical journey is starting to hurt my head. any one out there know of a good website or link about strings.  Looks..."
Wally Venable
@wally-venable • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
"You can make a stable, playable dulcimer which is only a stick. You just won't hear much without adding a sound box or putting it on a table top resonator...."
Nate
@nate • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
"That makes sense wally, thanks. It seems there are a lot of different aspects of the build that could affect how it handles tension. Bracing, full length..."
Ken Longfield
@ken-longfield • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
"I made my first dulcimer over 50 years ago. I've accumulated quite a few since then. Some instruments may only come out of a case once every five years or..."
wanative07
@wanative07 • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Jim Good dulcimer":
"https://ebay.us/m/EcRFQT here’s the link if anyone is interested."
Wally Venable
@wally-venable • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
"I taught engineering mechanics (Statics, Dynamics, and Strength of Materials - the courses which drove students out of Engineering) for a quarter of a..."
Dusty Turtle
@dusty • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
"The advice to loosen the strings is common for guitars.  But string tension on guitars is much greater than that on dulcimers, and dulcimers have the..."
Nate
@nate • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
""but, in my opinion, the minute aspects of wooden bodies' shapes are better preserved if string tension it maintained. " Im curious to know more about this..."
Nate
@nate • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
"Id say that detuning the strings by just a little bit is a good idea. While some instruments seem to hold up really well to warping over time...other fare..."
Wally Venable
@wally-venable • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
"String instruments which are played regularly are typically "kept in tune" for many decades on end. Strings may be damaged by age or environmental factors,..."
Homer Ross
@homer-ross • 3 weeks ago • comments: 6
Liked a photos item created by @phil-myers: img 2486
Robin Thompson
@robin-thompson • 3 weeks ago • comments: 6
Liked a photos item created by @phil-myers: img 2486
 
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