Musician and Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer Maker
Posted in Dulcimer, Friends, Fun, Hammered Dulcimer on Jul 23rd, 2009
I’m starting to pack for a road trip. I’ll be setting up a booth and showing my dulcimers at The Cranberry Dulcimer and Autoharp Gathering near Syracuse, NY. I’ll also be offering a hammered dulcimer workshop. The last time I played at this festival was in the late 1980′s or the early 1990′s. Should be [...]
Posted in Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, Music on Feb 6th, 2009
My old dulci-buddy (is that a new word?) Lois Hornbostel edits DulcimerSessions.com, a bi-monthly blog about all things dulcimer. I am delighted to have my arrangement of “Texas” featured. The article includes mountain dulcimer tablature, standard notation for hammered dulcimer or other instruments and an mp3 of “Texas” from my latest mountain dulcimer CD, “Songs [...]
Posted in Hammered Dulcimer, Music on Feb 3rd, 2009
This book was out of print by the time I had heard of it. I remember seeing a copy at a friends house in the 1980′s and wishing I could find one. The friendly folks at The Smithsonian Institution have made it available for free as a pdf file! I suggest you download the high [...]
Posted in Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, Lutherie, Tools on Oct 15th, 2008
Paul Nooncree Hasluck wrote books and articles about a wide variety of handicrafts around the turn of the last century. If you look him up at Google Books or The Internet Archive you’ll find many of his books available as downloads. “Violins and Other Stringed Instruments – How To Make Them” is available from Google [...]
Posted in Hammered Dulcimer on Jun 28th, 2008
Years ago I read somewhere that the dulcimer mentioned in the bible might not have been an early form of the hammered dulcimer. The writer thought that the instrument referred to as a dulcimer in the bible may have in fact been a bagpipe. When searching Google Books for the word “dulcimer” I came across [...]
Posted in Music on Apr 23rd, 2008
The dulcimer album is almost done and the hammered dulcimer album is in the home stretch. Mastering should begin in a few weeks. I’ve been recording with Glenn Brown at Glenn Brown Productions in East Lansing. The sound is wonderful, true audiophile quality.
Posted in Hammered Dulcimer on Apr 1st, 2008
This woman has the right idea!
Posted in Hammered Dulcimer, Music on Mar 7th, 2008
Yesterday I recorded an instrumental version of the ballad “Reynardine” on hammered dulcimer. It is now on my “Listen” page but you can also listen to it here: Reynardine – Hammered Dulcimer [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Posted in Music on Nov 1st, 2007
Greetings, Today I went into the studio with the intention of recording a few tunes for a demo. It quickly became clear that this had morphed into an album project. I recorded two songs with the mountain dulcimer and I go back to the studio next week to record several more.I’ll also be recording some [...]
