Check out this excellent little film about mountain dulcimer player Ami Fabbri. I stumbled on this video on YouTube. It’s one of a series of films about Appalachian traditions. The Mountain Traditions Project is a collaboration between Appalachian Independent Newspaper, Mountain City Traditional Arts and… Read More
I’m learning this tune on banjo now, so I’ve been listening to various performances of it….let’s start with Heat Box And Dan Levenson… Here’s Mark Gilston playing it on mountain dulcimer… Finally, Mr. Nonouke with a uke version
The word dulcimer derives from the Latin dulcis, meaning sweet and the Greek melos meaning song. Yesterday I featured the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer, but that isn’t the only kind of dulcimer around. The hammered dulcimer has been around a number of different musical traditions… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features the mountain dulcimer, sometimes also called the Appalachian dulcimer. This is a fretted instrument that normally has either three or four strings. It belongs to the zither family of instruments. The Cuckoo – this is Jean Ritchie Here’s one of my… Read More
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