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@luigi
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
@randy-adams
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
@robin-thompson
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
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
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
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
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
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
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
@nate
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
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"
@benjamin-w-barr-jr
• 2 weeks ago
• comments: 4
Posted a new Comment on @wanative07:
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
@frank-dudgeon
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 2
Liked a youtube item created by @mark-gilston: Peasant Dance
Liked a youtube item created by @mark-gilston: Peasant Dance
@phil-myers
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: All the Abandoned Mines
@phil-myers
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 6
Posted a new Comment on Music Room:
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 6
Posted a new Comment on Music Room:
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 8
Posted a new Comment on All the Abandoned Mines:
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...."
@mark-gilston
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Peasant Dance:
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Peasant Dance:
Posted a new Comment on Peasant Dance:
"Very cool.I bet Morris dancers would like this( that thing they do with the sticks)."
@nate
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 5
Posted a new Comment on Livi:
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Just String info.":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Just String info.":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Just String info.":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Just String info.":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Jim Good dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Jim Good dulcimer":
"https://ebay.us/m/EcRFQT
here’s the link if anyone is interested."
@wally-venable
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "storing an instrument":
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,..."