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@randy-adams • 2 weeks ago • comments: 8
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:

"@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:

"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:

"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

@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"

@benjamin-w-barr-jr • 3 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 • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
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

@phil-myers • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
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:

"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:

"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:

"@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:

"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:

"Bravo! The good news is I can't keep time so it sounds perfect to me...."

@robin-thompson • 3 weeks ago • comments: 8
Created a new Audio File:
All the Abandoned Mines

@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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 3 weeks ago • comments: 6
Liked a photos item created by @phil-myers: img 2486

@robin-thompson • 3 weeks ago • comments: 6
Liked a photos item created by @phil-myers: img 2486

@strumelia • 3 weeks ago • comments: 6
Posted a new Comment on Music Room:

"Oh, and don't get me started on the (hummel?) lying on the long ottoman. Beautiful! What is it and who made it?"

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