1983-03, Dulcimer Players News Vol. 9 No. 3 by Dulcimer Players News

SUMMER 1983

$2 .00

VOL. 9, NO. 3

Esther Kreek

Interview with Jean Ritchie Andrew Rowan Summers Raymond Epler Interview with Esther Kreek Events Calandar Polkas , Jigs , Waltzes Dulcimer Hints and More ...

DULC IMER PLAYERS NEWS

Vo l. 9 , No. 2 Su..e r 1983

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Ed ito r: MADELINE MacNE IL DULCIMER PLAYERS NEWS P.O. Box 2164 ~ inchel t er , VA 22601

Contents SMASH THE WINIXNS

arr. Jerry Dallal .......................... . .. S

IlAYHO'ID EPLf.R . .........•........... . •....•....•.... • ...•... . ..•.• 7 WHAT ' S NEW . ......•....•.•...•.•....... . . . •..•.•.••. • .......•.• . •. 8

QUICK DULCIKER BAG •• • •••••••••••• • •••••••.•••••••••••••• • ••••••• 11 HAMliER DULCIHER HINTS . •.•.•.•••....•.•.•..••...• . •... . .....•.•.. II EVENTS CALENDAR .•••. • .. '" .......•.•......•.....•.•.•.. ' .. ' ...•. 1) FINCER EXERCISES roR DULCIHER Hike casey •.......•.•.. • .•.•..•... 16 SPANISH LADY

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MOZART SO!-lATA IN Carr. Rulh Ann Sh... phl' rd ...•.• • .... • .... •.• •.. 20 INTERVIEW WITH ESTHER XREEK

Mi ute COlllnfl. . • .......•....... • .• 22

CLASSIFIED ADS •.. . ..........•....•........• . ...... • .... • ...•...• 25 0I 1t.DRE.'i AND SO!-lG ~"OREW ROW~"

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SUMMERS: A PROFILE

6OS'liE TYNf.sIDE

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I~RVIEW

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WITH IEk'i RITCHIE

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No typesetting this issue - maybe next. The problem is two-fold: first , the necessary comput e r modem, second the necessary money to buy the necessary modell!. "SOllIe day , yhen you least expect it ... " I yant to chat a while about the inner workings of DULCrMER PLAYERS - namely, your subscriptions. The changeover to the computer really vent: yell. Perc,;ent:as,.-w:1s,. we d1<.l n ' t .1ss _ny people. It .. 111 probably take us another issue or two to get most of the bugs out. I entered half of the names in upper and lover case letters before I reslized I should have used upper case only. I didn ' t realize a comma betyeen city and state was in the prograll!, so I dutifully entered another. Rather than bore you with my computer inexperience, let me explain the expiration dates on your lable . Since our year runs January. April , July and October. I entered your subscription ' s expiration date as i ssue number (not month) followed by year. Perhap s I should have done differently, as a few people are concerned about leaving us when they just got here! However, that's the way 1 did it so we ' ll live with it for now. If your label reads "Expiration date: 4/8)". that means the 4th issue of 198) - the Fall ilsue. "1/85" means the 1st iSlue of 1984 - t be Winter issue - and so forth. When it ' s time for you to rene .... the computer reminds you with a "Time to Renew!" printed on the labeL I hope this answers any questions you have. Also - DPN issuea alysya go out and. with one four-day exception. alyays on time. Because of an unavoidable problem at the print shop, the Spring issue ...ent out on April 11th rather than the 1th. Letters and notes r olled in and we tried t o comfort everyone. We alyays get notea - t ...o or three before the iasue is even expected (for example. a note sent in mid-Karch concerning the non-arrival of the April iasue) . After DPN ' s are Bent , we ' re at the mercy of the postal system. Jus t because DPN ' s usually take one week to reach you doesn't mean an isaue won ' t take three weeks a no ther ti.... When you "'rite. here's the procedure: Your name is c hecked out on the up-to-date computer list . If i t ' s there , a label wss made for you snd an issue vent out . If it ' a too soon, ...e yrite and tell you one went out. Please ...ait until the first of the month (Auguat 1st for the S~r- July issue) and let us know . The post office does lose a few each time . Soaetimes we ' ve erred , as much as we ' d like to be perfect. So - if the post off i ce lost yours, we ' ll say, " Naughty, naughty" to them and send you another via 1st Claas Kail. If we erred, we send your DPN via lIt Cla.1 Mail, slong yith roses, marching bands and partridges in pear trees , begging your forgiveness. If your DPN isn ' t in the mail box when you expect it , Itop and think a .oIIIent: Issuea are sent t o U. S. sublcribers du ring the first week of January , April, July and October. Have you yaited 3-4 ...eeks? Look at the label of the last issue. Did you forget to renew? Look at your surroundings. Did you move and fo r gec t o t ell us? Returned DPN ' s cost us 25e to get your new addrell. We must charge you $2.71 for replacement copies. (The He is f or postage.) Again , if ...e err , we absorb all extra costs. I hope this answers any questions you mIght have. By the way, lome of you psnicked when you tried to call and found 70)/661-2017 disconnected. I didn ' t abacond yith subscription money. I ' ~ st.ply working at home to save 70 miles in round trip driving . Josn Nauer in Winchester picks up the .ail , processes subscriptions and is your friendly P. O. Box 2164 voice . I go to Winchester from Hillsboro once or tyice a yeek to go over things with her , and then Seth snd I do the rest of the DPN/Roots and Branches work at ~ÂŤS

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RAYMOND EPLER Ray.ond Epler "'1111 born on V.lentlne ' .\I Day , 1908, in. rural COlDun lty near Parkeuburg, Weat Vlql;inia. He b4!Ran building ..ountaln dulcimera lit the tille of hili r~tlrelllCnt In the Fall of 1972. He hall built ..ore than 500 dulcL.era since that I I~. 5o.e of hili In8tru.ents can be found In nearly all of the United Statell as well all In Europe, Alila. South America , lind AuStulla. 11111 flrat exhibit ",al nt Pinelllte .. Stnte Park , Weal Vlr~lnia In the SprlnR of 1973 and hia flrlllt Arta and Crafts Fair at Harper ' s Ferry, Wellt VlrRlnla In JUI1\! of the salDC year. It "'311 at Harper ' lI Ferry that he mel Ralph t.ce Smith and ~\..1dellne MacNeil. two people who have had II rtOliltlve Influenre on hili r" reer all a dulcll'ler perllon. In addition t o building d"lclmer.\l, Raymond has apent many dlly" ~lvlnR de.onatrations In thtl con.\lt ro ttlon and rtlaylnR of the dulcimer to varluulI group. lIuch 811 IIrhool ,路 l allllell from flfst II r adro to college , Sronior Clll:r:en's .etlllnJl.ll , ~' Ivlc club.ll and chufrhes. Thill photnRraph Willi lIIken at the 1981 '\oUntDlll State Arts and Crllft. '"lIlr at Cedar I..ake. near Ripley. I,'L'II[ VlrRiols while Rllyaond wall 1I.IIIInR II deftOnlitratlon on the construction of a lI(Ion13lo dulcllller.

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dulcimer , guitar and vocal' on o r 1gloal and traditional tunes and aonga luch •• nark I, the Color , Little Kartha and Walk, Don ' t Run .

wr iter of the Ho-egrowu Hu.ic Col umn In Hother Earth New. feature, in format i on on everything froa .. king your own inltrumentl to dilcovering bargai n. i n used one. to longwriting to perfon.ing .

HOCFIDOLER'S PANCY , Alan Free.an and David Schnaufer, Sidetrack, P. O. Box 273 , Crantlville , WV 26147. Thia albUM feature. 1010. and duets for fretted dulct.er , along with other lnatrumenta on traditional (Santi Ana ' s Retreat) and original (Rosie ' s Ar.a) tunel and vocal •.

ni£ KITCHEN KUSIClAN ' S 0' CAROLAN TUNES FOI IlAtttEIl DULCIMER, FIDDLE , ETC. ,

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CIMER MUSIC , Ji. Couza , Creenwich VUlage , 1011 Charlton Lane, Cha rlton , London SE7 , ENGLANO. An slbUM of up-f ront ha..ered dulciKer music festuring such selectiona a. Bach ' . Prelude No. 1 frna The Well-Tempered Clavier and Sweet Georgia Brown.

J UST ANOTIIER HAMMER DULCIMER BAND, No Strings Attached, c/o Wes Chappell , 4719 Clen Heather Dr. S.W. , Roanoke, VA 24018 . This albUM fe.ture. the ~r dulcl.aoer and bowed p..ltery playing Irish , oldti.. Ind original tune •. Supporting instrument a are guitar , bass, accordion and pennyvhiatle .

VtVE LE DULCIMER:, Loi. Hornbostel (Kicking Hule Records) . Available: 3309 01 ' Hontao.ery Place Rd., Monroe , NC 28110 . An albUM of colorful .u,ic frna other landa (Bryllupsgarden, Pipe on the Hob, etc . ) played on fretted dulchler.

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FUTURE DAYS , Sam Hoffatt ( Fretless) , !l.R. 1 , Box 168, Ver.hire, VT 05079. Thi. albUM featurel old tunel and dance rhyt~s , love song. and sound texture. fro. Ireland , Europe and Weat Africa played on ha.-ered dulc1.er and other in. truaent. such as baliphone, kantele , psaltery and guitar.

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PADDY TUTTY, Prairie Druid Recor ds , 219 Eleventh St . E, Saskatoon , Sssk., CANADA. This tasse tte t.pe feature. traditional material luch aa Katy ewel and u. •• of Loch Royal , with vocal., fretted dulct.er, guitar, fiddle .nd spoons .

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SOUNDINGS , Anna Ba r ry, P.O. Box 1974 , Boone , NC 28607 . A repertoire book of ove r 50 arrangements fo r i ntermediate and advaneed player s of f r etted dule i mer.

DULCIMER PARTS &. ACCESSORIES IN STOCK HAlDSHEU CASE

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BEARS , Neal Hellman (Ki cki ng Mul e Records) , Box 585 , Felton, CA 95018. An al bum pr ogr essing f rom the quie t of IriSh harp t unes t o r ousing Ame r ican fiddle t unes on the f rett ed dulci.ar . Ins t rumentGls Gnd vocal a .

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Events Calendar This calendar covers dulcimer events from late July t o early October.

Festivals not profUed

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July 22-2/0

BINGHAMTON ,

7th Annual CRANBERRY HAMMERED DULCIMER GATHERING. Info: Louise Wey. 21 Redcoat Lane, Plainville , HA 02762.

July 23- 24 RIO GRANDE , OH

OHIO VALLEY REGIONALS DULCIMER FESTIVAL .

July 30 BAR HARBOR , lIE

SONG OF THE SEA GAELIC MUSIC FESTI VAL. Info: Eddie & Anne 47 Weat St., Bar Harbor , HE 04609 (207)288-565).

July 30-31 ROCKFORD, IL

FOLK FESTIVAL at the Rockford Museum Center. Rock River Friends of Folk Husic , P.O . Box 1583, Rockford, IL 61110 .

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West Coast

KINDRED GATHERING. We have no i nformation but assu~e it will happen . Info; Robert Force , P.O. Box 931, Port Townsend, WA 98368.

Auguat 4- 7 LOUlSVIUE . ICY

8th Annual KENTUCKY MUSIC WEEKEND. Info; Iroquois Amphitheatre Association , Box 1334, Louisville , KY 40213.

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Box 3]0 , Rl0 Grande , OH

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Bob and

Dulcimer Festival,

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Sam Rizzetta Larkin Bryant

Boonie Carol and others

• Instrum ental and Builder's Workshops . Concert • Jam Sessions · Exhibits

For Details, Write or Call: C leveland State University Division of Continuing Education C leveland , Ohio 4411 5 1216) 687-2144

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Augul t 13 CLEVELAND , OM

NORTH COAST FOLK MU SIC fESTIVAL held on

the Ca~pu. of Cleveland State University. Workshops on building and playing ham.er and fretted dulc!.etl and concert. Info:

lat ANNlJAl. RtSTON DULCIMER FESTIVAL at t he Lake Ann Center (eo..unity Center ,

August 20 RESTON, VA

in ca.e DC ra1n). Free .d.i •• ~on . Wo rkshops and coneart . Info : Reston eo..unity Center , 2310 Colta Seck Rd., Reston , VA 22091.

September 15. 16. 17 . 18 . 1983 WINFIELD. KANSAS FAIRGROUNDS National Mountain Dulcimer Championship September 16th

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Sept. 9& 10 BURLINGTON. VT

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Worksho ps $3800 in Cash Priz~ and Prize InStruments by Luthien Harvey L. Prinz Lynn McSpadden Donald A. Round Dale London

8th National OLD-TIHE COUNTRY HOSIC CONTEST . Info : Bob Everhard , 106 Navajo , Counc i l Bluffs , II. 51501 (7 12)366- 1136. 5th Annual DULCIMER FAIR at the College St. Congr egational Church . Conce rts Fr~day and Satu rday even~ngs , Diaplays and Wor kshops Sat urdsy sfter noons . Info: Hary Ann Sa.uela , 115 Intervale Ave. , Burlington, Vt. 05401. (802) 658-0832. 14th Annual FOLK FBSTIVAL OF THE St~Kl£S. I nfo: Folk Life Center of t he S.okies , P.O. Box 8 , Colby , TN 37722 (615)487-5543.

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National Hammered Dulcimer Champion!hip September 17th

(216)687-21119.

Sept. 15-1 8 WINFIELD , KS

12th Annual WALNUT VALLEY FESTIVAL. Info: Bob Redford, Walnut Valley Assoc . , Box 245, Winfield , KS 67156 (316)22 1-3250.

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lat Annual NORTH ALABAMA DULCIMER FESTIVAL will be held at the Lions Club Fark in Meridianville , AL . A lathering of dulet.er players and askers (Hountain and Ra..er dulct.ers) featurinl j . . .i nR , concert s and sales booths. ec:- and help aske our first featival a succeaa. Sponsored by Hountain Dulcimer l.esociation of Huntaville . Info: Wayne Taylor , F.O. Box 325, Meridianville , AL 35759 (205)828-0004.

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DULCIMER FESTIVAL featuring workshopa and concerts. Info : Rogers Magee , 129 Chester field St., Aiken, SC 29801.

Ne October 1 & 2

WINSTED , CT

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AUTUMN HILLS DULCIMER FESTIVAL concer ts , all-level worksho ps , and da ncing. SettLng ~ s a beaut iful 530 Acre ca~p on West Hill Pond in the Conn. Hills. Info: Folkcraft In_trume nrs , P.O. Box 807, Winsted, CT 06098 (203) 379-7685 .

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NORTHEAST DULCIMER SYKPOSlllM. Ttlt_ year the focus is on trick. of the trade: practical and t echnical knowledge fro. at.pIe repairs to r eco rding t echniques. Fretted a nd ha..er dulcimers. Info: NOS , 24 South St., lethel , CT 06801.

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In the Winter 1983 DPN Tom Baehr said ~the whole Symposium was devoted to shari ng. If for some r eason you have refrained from participating in A total immersion dulcimer weekend , please reconsider . There are several here in the northeast , and the Northeast Dulcime r Symposium is among the best~ .

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This year the f ocus is on ~ tricks of the trade": practical and technical knowledge from simple repairs to recording techniques for both mountain and hammered dulcimers . The fee with pre-registration is $17.00 for the entire day. For more information:

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FINGER EXERCISE FOR HAMMER·ONS AND PUll.-OFFS

Here i s a finger exercise that i s e xcellent f o r deve loping the techniques o f hammering-on and pulling-o ff as well as being fun to play! The exercise wa s developed by Christoph Harlan , a c lass i cal guitari s t and teache r affiliated with ~ent State University and t he Cl eve l and I nstitute o f Muai c , f o r use with his studen t s. I have iKIapted it for t he dulcimer and provided both the mus i c and the tabla tu re below . The exercise is fairly s ttaightfo rwa r d . I use the index, lIIiddle, and ring fingers all the wa y through with the exce ptio n o f the Ufth measure whi c h i s a bit tricky . Here the little finger can be used t o make the s tr e t c h f r om B t o E o r fir st to fou r th f r et . 1 have inc l uded the left- hand finge ring below the tab although ther e Me certainly many o ther ways to finger it . Remembe r t o keep the finger s o f th e left hand cu rv ed and to pby o n the tips of the Ungers! You may also find it eas ier to pull tow", d you and down when pullirog off (a s opposed to lifting the fing e r up) and to · snap· the halll'ller-ons . Good luckl Mike Casey Kent , Ohio

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An Interview With ESTHER KREEK By MITZIE COLLINS Rochester. NY

Esthe r Kreek, of Ore90n , Missouri, is a delightful dulcilllCt player. 1 fi rst met her at the 1980 Cranbe r ry Hammered Dulcimer Gather ing at Binghamton , New York , and I have been inspir ed by her dedicat i on and dete r mination in l ea r nin9 to play both the hammered and aountain dulcimers. When Esther and her husband , AI, parked their Argosy camper in our drlve wllY for II couple of days this summer , we had a min i -dulcimer festival in our backyard . I think her sto r y might be helpful to othe r s. Esther has turned herself, in the space of about four-and-a-hal f yea r s , from a neophyte dulcime r player to an experienced professional , ente r taining, perfo r ming and edUcating in a variety of situations . She also works as ~ Bluebird ~ the clown , has a collection of children and g r andch i ldren , and is a hospitable center o f dulcimer playing wherever she goos . She also makes the best peanut butter and chocol ate batS in the world . My first question to her was:

!.'HAT GOT YOU ST.l1 ,1::07 About five years ago Al and I saw a muunta i n dui<:lmer for sale at a c raft festival in forsvthe , Hlssouri . AI s(lid , " Cet une" . t had heard u mounta in dulcime r somewhere before and it I路JOked easy. because iL had fewl.'r SLrlngs and f rets thar a guitar. I wa.,ted to pla~路 snmething. I decided I was ~olng to learn to play It oyernll(ht. I didn't have a book , I d idn ' t know hn ... to tune Ie, and I sa t down and tried ever}'thlnj! under the sun. It sounded terrillle. So, 1 put It In the c:ase and ahoyed it under the bed. Periodic ally I ' d j!C't it out alld chec k It ove r, decide It looked simp le . but it wasn ' t. That Seotember of 1911 our son , Dave, and hi8 family visited from '~ryland, and we took them to Silver Dolla r City, a re stu red 19th centu ry v illage in Southwestern Missouri. He wns fasrinated with the perforlter there .... ho was playing the hamm('red dulcimer. I don ' t even rellleillher the lady's name , because the hammered dulcimer didn ' t mean anythln~ to me at the time. \-Ie decided we would try to give Dave a hammt'red dulc:lmer fo r Chrislllas. In October there was a two line anlrlc in thc St. Joseph paper onnountlng "Dr. Harl/cy Print ... ill sive a demonstration of a hammered dulcimer at the Offlcl'r's Club at Fort Leavenworth". I called the club, found out how to get In [ouc:h with Dr . Prinz and we went to Kans(!.s City to see him. It's about one hundred miles each way. When 10'(' o rdered a dulcimer D,y dear husband sa id , "You ought t o have one [00 ". [remind hi of that now thaL we [rec k allover the count ry to dulc~r festll/als and courses! .. I said .. 'What will I do with a hammered dul cimer? ' and Harvey Prinz said .. 'I know a lady who teaches'. Now , how can you pass 1.10 a deal I1ke that ~ I gc>t LIlah Cillett's add res,:; and started taking lessons in February, 1918. I was determined t o learn, and I practiced every day. i learned mainly songs, a few fiddle tunes. and most Importantly Lilah tauRhL me chording. HOI/ DID YOU START PERFOIU!I!-;C? I had been playing hammered dulcimer a little over a year when I saw an article in the St. Joaeph newspaper. "1,'.. would like to 8et up sidewalk conce rts and hal/e people come down and play music. " I called the Parks and Recrealion D.. partlllOnt and a"k ..d ' 0... I hau .. t o aud iti on? ' "Heavens no , come do,," and play on Thursday.' I snent IIQst of my tIme exDla1n1ng what the Inatrument was, so that I could ge t by with the few son~9 that I knew. People were very Interesd and po.ltive and aaked for all kinds of 80n1(8 , most of which 1 did not know .

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The St. Joseph MuseuIII Willi 1I1lIrt i n~ the i r r..,stlval that year . They had hl'ard lIIe on the street, and asked lilt' to perform. Thl' historical society then ra lled UI(', nnd a department sto r e heard about l1li' lou. One thing led to IInother. The following Spring , 1980, I got a call from the St . Jost'ph sr hools Continuing Education Prograll! wanting me to do a workahop on dulcillteHI to dellWlnslntte the hlll..ered and lIIOuntain dul cimer and find out if there was any interest. Meantillie . I had learned a few thin gs with the lIIOunlaln dulcl_r . Thirty people came and I was asked to come the ne~t Fall and teach lIIOunlain du l cimer. 'didn't feel I knew enough In leach anybody anything. IrIHAT OlD YOU 00 TH£)I'! Well. we were going E48t that SUllllller, back to Illy hometown of BaltllllOre . and we IItopped at Appillachian Stllte UniY('rsity In Boone . NC where I l ook a course in lIIOuntllln dulcll1ter. I learned llbout that cOll r se In the DPN ! I learned enough 80 I could teach a six week beginning lIIOuntain dulcimer rlass.

KEANTIKE, IrIHAT ' S GOING ON WITH THE HmlERED DULCIMER ... After we went to the dul chle r course in 8oone , we came up to the Cranber r y Ha_red Dulc i mer Gathering In 61nghlll'llon. I IIlso trllveled tu Ml. View . AR Ou1<:1mer Fellt t val in '79. ' SI and 'S2 , and I've been to the Nati ona l Fl atpicking Chllmpi o nahipli in 'linfleld . KS where there is lots of dulcimer playing, The f lrat year I went, In 1975 . I had just gotten Illy ha~red dulcime r. HOW 00 YOU LF.ARN TUNES , ESPF.t: lAI.L'I TO EMBF.LLISH THEM?

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I learn by ear . Fl rllt I Illnen t o the tune, t hen I sing It un111 1 think I have it. Along the way I took privDte lessonll In theo r y and that's been really helpful too. I think the Rcrel of dulcllncr playing Is cho rd s. My students say to _ , "I don't want to lea rn cho r ds , I want to I l r n 11 aong"., . but when they learn the song . they say. "how can I make it sound richer and fuller?", .• and I say, "Add c ho rds". I learned Illy fi r st fiddle tunes fro. Lilah Cillett, and then 1 heard .are at Blngha.[on and Uinflcld. WHAT ' S THE 8F£T ADVICE YOU CAN GIVE TO SOMEONE UHO ' S JUST BEGINNING THE DULCiMER, HAM!1.ERED OR MOUNTAIN? Never put the dulcimer away ... Ieave it out so that every tllll(! you go by, you touch It. 1£ you cover it and put It In the closet It ' s tno IllUch trouble to 8ct it out t o practice. You have to want to learn. :1y fallllly , and ellpecially lIy husband. have been IIIOst supportive. If I was tota lly absorbed In Illy pract ic ing. Al wou Id say . "t' II coo k supper" or "I ' II do the dishes". I couldn't have done it without that kind of support. Also , don't wait to perfon unttl eve r y single thing is pe r fecL If I waited unttl 1 was su r e I would never llllke a IIIlstake, I would never do anything. F.nj oy your ... sic ! DOES YOUR HUSBAND AL PLAY THE DULCIMER AT ALL? People often ask hla that and he says, "1 don 't have the d isease . I ' m just a ca rrier". BESIDES TRAVE LING OFF TO FESTIVALS AND COURSES, DO YOU GET TOGETHER WITH DU LCIMER PLAYERS CLOS E TO HOME? Yea. IIsrvey a nd Lllah stll Tted t he Prairie DuLci mer Clu b , whlch meets about four times a year t n Kansall City. i ' vll given a number o f wo r ks ho ps for the club on hRmmered dul cimer . WHAT KIND OF PERFORX INC SCH EDULE DO YOU HAVE NOW? I ave ra ge about 50 co ncerts a yea r. an d I ' ve done them In Arkansas, Kansns, Nebraska , Iowa and Missouri. 1 attended the hallllllered dulcime r cou r se unde r Sail! Riuetta at F.lkins , IN in 1981 and ' 82 snd met people rrOlll No rth Carolina who asked me t o come snd du both c l own and hs_ r ed dulci1M!r p r og rams. t did 20 programs in Winston-Salem, NC laat Spring, I ' ve jus t r eleased an album 1II8de jointly with dulci~r maker snd p la ye r Jane Adams of Derby , KS. It'a called HEARTS AND BUTTERFLIES. WHAT COMMENT 00 PEOPLE HAKE /1OST OFT EN ABOIIT YOUR PLAYING? 23

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People tell !lie I look like I'm having fun , and 1 am. I l ove every .inute of tt . get "dulct.ered out" , and it ' a a ",ay to reach people and co_un l cate ao.ethlng very apec i al. \/hen 1'. playing around the St . Joseph area I have a coup le of "regulara" co.. ... herever I a. . They ",111 come up to me and aay. "1 came into town becauae you here today". 1bey Uaten to lIE' playa tune and give lIE' a hug •.. and then get on the and go back oo.e .

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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO IN THE FUTURE?

1 Ii3nt to learn to pt.y the banjo , and to learn to paint ... 1th ...ater color. I like to ",rite ... poetry and childrena ' atoriea , and my family hopea 1 never get all the way down III)' Uat to "hang-gild Ing" J Eather ' a record ia available frOB he r: Esther Kreek , Oregon HO &4473. Recorda by Harvey Print and Lilah Cillette are available from: Lilah Gillette. 8709 Goddard , Overland Park , KS &&214. Infon.ation on the Prairie Dulcimer Players Club: Betty TO'"'8r , 309 E. Crace , Olathe, KS &&061. Esther's recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars •.. guaranteed to improve dulc imer playing: cup me lt ed butter or Margsrine 2 and 1/3 cups confectione r's suga r and 3/4 cupa gr aham c racker

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CHILDR EN A ND SONG BY PAM VANDER PLOEG Grand Haven, MI

Possibly some musicians working with children do not know about the picture book ve r sion. of folksongs.

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Children -.ke u? and ling neW' verlel by lupplying new aniaall Ind rhy.lng places

to put thea . Kidl throu<jh age 11 like the challenge of it . Al.o , here you have the chance to demonltrate tne changing nature of the folksong. People fHl frH to add their own new wordl . Margot te-.ch'l -Hulh Little Baby(Dut~ , 1976) il elpecially good for preschooler. . You can ac~~ny the ainging on your inatru.ent ~11e ao.eone elle turna the ~gea . The illu.trationl are of the victorian era and it ' . i~rtant to show the chi ldr en that they can find these IiOnqI in boob in libraries and book atorel . I've enclosed I li st of cy favorite â&#x20AC;˘ . Aliki CO TELL AUNT Mooy .

MacMillan, 1974 .

Abiach , Roil '!'WAS IN THE MOON OF WINTER TIMe. Prentice-Hall, 1969. FOX WENT OOT ON A CHILLY HIGHT, 11. Pete r Spier. Doubleday, 1961 .

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FROG WENT A'OOURTIH ' , retold by John Langatlff~ 11. by Feodor Rojankovaky . Harcourt, 1955. HUSH LITTLE BABY; adlpted and 11 . by Margot Ze-ach. Dutton, 1976 . Langstaff , John OH , A-HlIHTING WE WILL CO, il. by Nancy Win.low Plrker . Atheneva, 1974. OVER IN THE MEADOW, 11 . by Feodor Rojankovsky . Harcourt , 1957 .

FARMI 11 . by Robert Lippincott, 1972 .

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A Profile of ANDREW ROWAN SUMMERS by ERIK BLOMSTEOT Joliet. IL

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The dulci.er world baa long Ittracted per80na fro. varioua walks of life. Thia article highlights the life of one of the early MOdern dulcimer legends , Andrew Rowan Sum-ers--attorney, interLor furnis hings designer, sntique dealer, folk song collector Ind singer , and dulcimer player . Thia multi-tslented .an wal born 1n Abingdon , Virginia on Decl!lllber IS, 1912. Hil father , Lewil Preaton Summers was a prominent lawyer and author of 3 historiel of the Virginia Highlands. Summers showed Lnterel t and ability in art and ~sic at an early age and , by age la, he could play almost any aong on the piano by ear . Hia II1nging developed du r ing hi . tee ns with memberlhip in the church choir and voice lessona. Thi. began the training of Summerl ' beautiful tenor voice which, with limple dulcimer aceompaniment, ean still be hea rd on Folkways Records.

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Summers entered the Univerlity of Virginia in 1930, majo ring in music and taking further voice trlining under Roaa He.pltead. He psrticipsted in thestre productions and Later entered t he University ' s lsw scbuol graduating in 1935. During thil period he . .ng IIBny coneerts of "Itsndard" 80ngl in the Virginia area. After returning to law practice in Abingdon, he atcended che firat White Top Folk Fescival in 1938 where Eleanor Roosevelt waa the guest of honor . Thia viS it acarted his inceresc in folk mulie, "Suddenly I realized we were seeking svidly for things that happened every day of lIy life . " As his folk ..sic inceresc grew, 80 did his inceresc in the dulci-er , ..... che only inltru-nt ever eountenanced by che folka chemselves aa Iccotllpsni_nt." At t his festival Su_rs heard his fint dulci.er , played by John Tescer.an , a aan in hia eighcies fro. Smith County , Virg inia . He lacer builc a duleimer for S~E:I and wtIled hill hia own in8trulllent. SU_rI began to visit Teaterman , writing down hi s song8 and nocing his dulc imer playing _rhod. Hia law work took Su.mers to .any par ts of Virginia and he uaed these opportunities to lesrn more about the tradition. and the song8 , "Fat1ller a would c~e to Illy law office and h~ folk melodie. while chey waited, so I began collecting their aong8."

In 1938 , Summer. moved co New York City and worked aa sn editor [or a l aw publiaher. While ther e he viaited Columbia Recorda and sang hia songa for a viee-prelidenl, uling his building woods dulcilaer for ac:.eOlllPanilaent. This reaulted in I 4 record, 78 elrod Q~~o ,. i e5 RPH albw., "Old World Ballads in America" (1941). Thla La regarded as one of the first doc:...-en ced recordinga of ' .o.so.m American folk "Iic and it reeeived criCical acclat. . This 28 period also included so.. experi.Montal televis t on progra.. , ____.I often uaing the dulct.e r.

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Hia dulciMr ". iaalon" continued throughout thia period. It included concert. at the World ' a Fair , lecturea at Coluabia Univeraity, recitala at Tanglewood and even New York night club appearaneea at Le Ruban Bleu and the Sert Room. During thia buay ti.e SUlllllera .aid he "practiced law by day and .. ng all night . • . (the) cauae of Illy ulcer." lie did not regard the dulcimer as only a folk inatruaent but felt that .any educated peraans had uaed it for accolilpaniment to their recording of h1story in 8Ong. He perfonaed folk aang and dulcimer concert a in .any parta of the ijAited Statea and of ten entertained friend. at .aonlit coneerta in hia Abingdon garden. In New York, S~ra beca.e acquainted with Agnes DeMille, the ballet choreOlrapher . They often .at fo r lunch 1n a nearby drug atore and abe compoaed a ballet . The Cherry Tree Le&end, baaed on Su..er 'a rendition of the Cherry Tree Carol. In 1943 he Joined the law fina of Burroughs and Brown building a .ueceaaful lav practice , but hia flrat love vaa ~a i c and deaign. However, he felt that .aking folk MUaic recordinga would not provide a living. He designed .. ny of the Curnishings for his own Nev York hoae originally built by Hartin Van Buren , the 8th Preaident. He became well known for the beautiful, atately la.p. he de.tgned for Lord 6 Taylor, eventually purchaaed by client. auch aa Fulton Sheen , the Duchela of Windsor and Dorh Duke. In 1947 , be ror.ed Andrew R. Sumaers Associatea t o de.ign and ..nufacture other furniahinga.

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Sum.er. inherited the Ca.ily lav offtce 1n Abingdon, built in ISIO . lie converted thia i nto a bachelor apar t ment and alao operated Abingdon Houae Antiq~e, . Afte r hi, death in Harch, 1965 , the buildins waa given to the Waah1ngton County Historical SOCiety of Abingdon. Summera relt the wotk dulcimer was a ~isnomer for paaltery and that it wa. an In.tru.ent probably of Oriental origin . "The true dulcime r is the ance.tor of the piano •.• the ter. crept into folk speech in pre-Eli~abethan Scotland and England .•. and va. brought to Southwe.t Vi r ginia by Scott1.h settlers. Thera i . an aUinity between me and tbe dulct..er . " Hi. favorite aoo,a Included the CherTY Tree Carol, Hares on the Hountain and Saarchinl for ta.ba .

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'rrival at Crand CeQtral Station and had to be opened [or police inapaetion. Appaaring on an NaC radio progr. . he found he had no feather (pIck) and had to use a pencil . Hilton Cro •• , the aAnouncer, .entloned thi. on the progra. and Suaaera received feathera of all typea fro- aa Car avay aa Auatralia. A neva photo captIon (1940) read., " . •• thi. in.tTU8ent h • duleiMr. Imovn in 80IHl archaic eirelea aa a paaltery. It aounda like a eroa. between a Hava11an guitar aad a c ig.r-box fiddle. Tonight over WNYC , Andrew Rowan S~ra viII atn... hi. paaltery ... ..

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The body and top are of 1/ 8" thi ck hard maple in an elongated t ear drop ahape . Over all, it ' s 34" long and 1" across at the widest portion. fhe hol lowed 1/4" thi ck f r etboard is I" high and I 3/8" wide with 2 r ound sound holes in the board. There ar e also two larger clef shaped sound holes in t he sound board. The body i s 2" thick. The peg box ac r oll is carved in cherry aa is the fretboard base. Only one of the original carved pegs remains and the others are violin pegs. Derek uses four equi-dl stant steel wrapped banjo strings , Black Diamond C' s (3) and a G. Derek was long interested in his un~le's singing. ~on tinues the trsditi on by strumming the dulcimer using goose quills both for noter and pi~k. He has a ~ounter-te nor voi~e and s ings Old Wo rld ballads III\Ich as hia un~le did. Although he performs for friends and aome hiator i ~al groups. ~rek ' a appeAr_ ance at a folk festival some years ago was not encouraging. Ssndwiched between two country rock bands. hi s quiet ballads and dulcime r weren ' t well r ecei ved by the ~ rowd . 1 assured him ther e are 8t ill people and festivals who welcome the trad i tional sound .

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Being a traditionalist, he doean't favor the use of plastic picks or "electric" dulc imers. He sees the dulcimer primari ly as an accompaniment for singing (aa did S~rs) and not aa a aolo instrument . He would love to hear from dulcimer peopl e and his addreas is Derek Dutcher , 4900 Medical Drive, Apt. 1603 , San Antonio, TX 18229. Andrew Rowan Summer a i s an example of a non- traditional singer who s~qu ir ed an authentic slnging and playing style through a ~a reful study 'of the traditional singerl. "I reached folk music just as the gat e c l osed. In families who once sang folk mus i~, t he young people have moved away or they derive their entertainment from telev1aion" (t his in the early 50a!). ANDREW ROWAN SUMMERS ON FOLKWAYS RECORDS (all with ARS slnging snd dulcimer accompaniment) FA2002 Chriat~8 Carols FA202 1 Seeds of Love. FA2041 The Lady Gay FA2044 The Faulse Ladye

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J EAN RITCHIE

Jean Ritchie waa born and raiaed in Viper , Kentucky , hea r t of the Souther n Appalachi an Hountaina , the youngeat of fourteen children bo rn to Balh and Abigail Ritchie. According to l oca l hi ato r y, James Ritchie with five brothera came f ro. Scotland in 1768 and a fev yea r s later, James pioneered into the Appalachian wildemeaa and died near what ia now the Carrs Fork of TrOublesome Creek. Hil fami l y sett l ed t here , one of the firat in that region , In the s ucceeding gener ationa , they snd t he ir neighbors continued to farm the rugged hil lsidea, and to entertain theaaelves with play- partiel, ballsds and love plaint. handed down from their Scottish, Irish and Engli.h ancestora. Changing timos are catching up with the .auntains, but fo l ks st i ll love the old songs, When Jean waa growing up, it wasn ' t the new "hillbilly" !Qusic or the catchy tin-pan alley songs that were the favoritea. It was, "Barbry Ellen." "Over the River Charlie , " "Sourwood Hountaln , " or , "Lord Randal," People .. de up songs, too, new! account. of local events--hanglnga , elections, ground-hog hunts , elore~nts, feuds--811 meAningful, eArh â&#x20AC;˘ living r~rl of the growth of a r egion.

5<h,.' , from Cumber land Junior College , and from the of Kentucky with highest honor. and a Phi Beta Kappa Key , taking her Bachelor's degree in soc l .1 work. First job In thIs f i e l d wa. with the Henry Street Settlement in New York City , Where , with her mountain dulcimer which she had learned to play frolll her father , ahe taught her faaUy songs and gaaes to the children. Frieoos and Settlement visitor. aoon began inviting her to aing at partiea and achoola, then Alan Loaax recorded her sonia for the Library of Congrea. Folkaong Archives, and introduced her at Oxford Prus . Her Urat book, SINGING FA~nLY OF THE CUKBERLANDS , published in 1955, was widely reviewed as an ~rican classic, and ia still in print today. Mnny book. have followed , and concerti , restival appearances , television, recording contracta and radio broadca.ta have been natural outgrowths of her (a~ily ~usic, and have taken her to many countries around the world. She la fre, uently consulted as a folkloriat, and has often represented her country at international folklore conference., at Expo in Canada , at the Cultural Olympic' in Mexico , at the Folklif. Flstlval in Wash1nltOn , D.C. She wa. one of the Beven original direc t ors of the Newpo rt Folk Festival , and hal recently scrved a three-ycar tena on the first folklore panel of the Nati onal Endowment for the Arts, In the spring semester of 1919. ahe was a visiting professor of folklore at California State University at Fr esno , She ia prealdent of the Georgie Hustc Publishing Co., and. vice-president of Greenhay. Reco rdin~a, This Sprinl she received an honorary Doctor of Letters delree frOM the Univer.ity of Kentucky,

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An Inlerview With JEAN RITCHIE By HENRY RASOF Brooklyn, NY By her own admission , Jean Ritchie is not a virtuoso on the dul c imer . Technically ahe has been surpassed by ~ny younger players. But no One has done AS mueh AS JeAn Ritchie hAS to spread gospel of the du lc imer , the people ' s instru~ent. Whether or not she 1s singlehandedly responsible for the curren t dulcimer r evival is debatable; however , when people began exploring the roots of American folk music they found Jean Ritchie , who , it turned out , had been there all along.

flOW 00 YOU REGARD THE TREMENDOUS UPSURGE IN INTEREST IN THE DULCIMER? Well, my reaction to i t i8 one of pleasure and happine8s. Al l my life I ' ve been trying to tell people how easy the dulc i~ r is to play; it ' s been a crusade with me ever since I sta rt ed playing on stage for people-playing for peop l e , my father would say , as oppoaed to playing for you rself. And people always say, "That l ooks very hard to play," Actually, anyone can play it; anyone who haa an ear , who can hea r right notes and wrong notes , can play this thing, ' cause i t ' s very, ve r y simple . So the fact that it has caught on around the country askes me feel ve r y good. IS THE APPEAL OP THE DutCUlER DIFFERENT TODAY FROM WHAT IT WAS IN THE PAST? Yes , in the sense that it ' s consider ed more of an i nstrument now than it was. I plsy it very basically , the wayan untrained per son would play ft-untrained musically , that isbecause I know nothing about written mus i c. Bu t it appeals to trained musicians now mo r e than it did in the past because they ' ve taken it and pushed i t beyond its limitations and made i t more flexible. DOESN ' T THAT IMPLY THERE AREN ' T LIMI TATIONS? Oh, yea, the r e were-there are-limitations . The way the dulcime r i a pl ayed It has a diatonic scale, ao that in order to change modes you have to ret une But the way people play, using cho rd a and fingerpicking and ao on-especia lly with the left hand-has allowed them to go over the aecond , third , and fou rth get notes that the traditionsl musician would not get. If the pla yer uses a up and down onl y on the first string , he wouldn ' t get those notes.

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WERE THERE PROGRESSIVE STYLES AMONC DULCIHER PLAYERS IN THE PAST? No, not really, to my knowledge. People just played the dulcime r in the old way. The way I ' ve heard people play has just been with the noter and the pick, and they've gone up and down the first s triug. A person who did playa little bit differently was Jeth r o Ambe r gy of Heidman, Kentucky-he's a dis tant coulin of mine , and the one who inherited Eddie Thomas ' a dulcimer pa ttern and sort of took ove r after Eddie died. Jet hro was a banjo playe r, you know, 80 he used a l itt le bit of a different fingerpicking kind of styl e , but the left hand wal the aame; he d i dn't go over onto the nonmelodic notes and get different notes . or HOUN'1'AlN OOLC IMER by TOI4 BAEHR • U~ TUN&S/OID fRIDIDS • •$,4 . 9

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WHY IS THE OULCIMER APPEAL I NG INCREASINGLY TO TRAINED MUSlCIANS? Well , people are alwaya l ooking for a unique sound, and T th i nk the dulcime r has a sound that no other i nstrument has . You couldn ' t subst i tute a gui tar or a banj o or a f i ddle or anythin g else for the dulcLne r . People who want that s ound play the dul c i me r, at fi r st probably t o get the unique sound. and t hey they real i ze that it ' s capable of more than they thought it cou l d do and they go on to deve l op their atyle .

A NUMBER or DULCIMER PLAYERS ARE TURNING THE DULCU1ER INTO A SORT or GUITAR. PUTTING os SIX STRINGS , MAKI NG THE BODY VERY LARGE (JEAN LAUGRS AT TRIS POINT) . DOES THAT STRTKE YOU AS SILLY? " Silly" is maybe not the Yard I ' d pick. 1 t hink H you chan ge the dulc l ma r physically , t hen it ' s not a du l cimer any more , but i f you use it the wa y it Is . then you c an play it any way . You r p l aying style is your own-the r e r ea l l y are no rules o r anyth i ng . There ' s an old , untu t ored way of pl aying it , wh i ch peopl e call the t r adi t iona l style , and that ' s that; but no one ' s going to put you i n Ja il H you go beyond that. Bu t as far aa the body of t he ins t rument i s concerned, i f you make it c hromatic. if you put little notes in between . .. THE SIX AND A HALF FRET . ..

Oh, no t just the six and a ha l f fret-that was jus t an acc i dent that somebody made . ... l ' ve seen someone Who ' s done the whole fre t boa r d t hat way and made it chrOBatic as a gu itar or anything else •.• but t hen it ' s not a dulcime r ; it ' s not t he i na t r\~ent tt star t ed out t o be; i t ' s IDQre like , well , an example wou ld be the lIungarian zither: that ' s a dulcimerlike instrument where ch r omat i c notes ha ve been added . Tha t t akes i t out of the r ealm of t he openscaled instruments f r om the Middle Ages , which Is what a dulcimer is.

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IS PART OF THE DEFINITION OF DULCIMER" A STRINGED INSTRUMENT THAT CAN 8E SUILT HOWEVER YOU WA.'fT TO , OR AU10ST HOWEVER YOU WANT TO "1

No, if you change the frets, then you have a different instrument. 00 TOO MANY PLAYERS SPEND THEIR TIME ON TECHNIQUE AND FANCY FlNGERWORX AND FORGET THE

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You can't put li~ifationa on playera-if fhey're nOf good singors and th.y don ' f ( •• 1 lik. singing, you can't say they should aing too. But ~y personal feeling is .•• l love the songs. Anything that I do, in concert or teaching people , is to teach the. the songs. The dulciMer to me is another voice that goes along and helps teach the song . helpa aet forth the song . 1 never obscure the song with plsying . There'. a funny story I re.eaber abo~t Doc Watson. He and 1 were playing at, 1 guess it was Gerdes Folk City, a long. long time ago-Doc's first gig on his own. I waa playing a song on the guitar-"A Pretty Fair Hiss ' Aworkin ' in the Garden." After about three or four nights , t was a little embarrassed at even pickin ' up s guitar with Doc around, so I said, "Why don ' t you play the guitar for me when t sing this song. instead of Illy playing lt1" And he said okay. It came tUie for the song . and he picked up the guitar and played the long exactly the way 1 played it, note for note-he didn ' t vary it a bit. I think he even put In Illy ~istakes (laughter). So afterwards I said , "Hey , how come you didn ' t play SOllIe thing flashy?" He said, "That ' s all that song needs." At the same time it was a t r ibute to his greatness , 1 guess , and also a compliment to me , that 1 found the right accompaniment for the .ong. so 1 appreciate that. I remembered that , later on , when t felt like apologl~ing for my guitar playing. And I think I would give the same advice to du l cimer players. You can get all kinds of ho t licks-I think with any instrument that has to come in the development of playing . The whole guita r era , the dulcimer e ra, you know, it starts out as a simple little thing , oompah , oompah. I remember when the fi r st guita r came into Kentucky , and everybody around u, played oompah, oompall, and accompanied the songs. Well , now if you go into the same place, you ' ll see people play the guitar like Chet Atkins. It has to come, with any instrument . Husicians will take it and develop and push it and experiment with it- a full cycle . 1 thing that's what ' s happening now with the dulcimer; among singers at least, you ' ll have all thll Ilashy playing developed and it getl tlalhier and flalhier and oeople get in more noces per mealure than (laughter) ... The lri.h dance tunes now are gettin ' pushed so fast that dancers coult never keep up. Technical excellence just reachel a point after awhile where everybody rebels and sayl , "Hey, where ' l the song. what ' s this all about?" "'-Ong singera that ' a what happens. I think. SOllIe of the. get carried away with their accompani-ents and with trying to keep up with all the hot licks , but the ones with integrity eventually stop and aay, "Well , what i8 this-i. It just to play fast or to play fl8shily-is that what it ' s sll about?" You have to listen to the words. and you have to listen to what the 80ng ' s trying to say. 8nd I think that people should use the dulcimer or any instrument that they plsy to help their songs speak-ca-unicate- not just to say, "Hey , look, 1 can play better and faster than you do." WHAT AR£ YOU DOING DIFFERENTtY TODAY FROM THE PAST? I ASSUME YOU STILL TOUR A LOT • • •• ARt: YOU SAYING SOMETHING DIffERENT IN YOUR MUSIC TODAY. IS IT MORE REFlKED ••• 1

Let me think about that. I gues8 t he big thange is that I'm wr iting songs now , about cur rent happenings. Strip-mining , mine safety , abuse of the world . And, well, I ' m a lot more relaxed than 1 used to be. I know what t can do and what I can ' t do. I get on stage now ... snd I pick my stsges very car efully. t don ' t just take any job that comes up. One thing I've learned Is which audiences I can reach and which I can ' t •.. WHO IS YOUR BEST AUOIEMCEl

I guess a community audience of all ages Is good fo r me. 1 like college audiences toO , but usually they Are .IAO rhrnwn nppn to the community and you have a mixture of kIds and ~rand mothers and college and high school students and it ' s sort of family oriented .... 1 know what I can do and what 1 want to say , and I've resched the point where it doesn't bother me an awful Int if people don ' t like 1t •.. if they don ' t like it, that ' s their problem . So I ' m just very relaxed about the whole thing now. I don ' t like to strive and struggle to put a point acrossI don ' t WBnt to be In a position where I have to sell my product. That ' s not a cop out , I don't think. It's just a realization of whn you are and what you can say and do .

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00 PEOPLE STILL SEE THE DULCIMER AS AN EXOTlC INSTRUMENT? Well, it ' . a handle to hang it on, 1 gueaa-Jean Ritchie , famoua dulct.er player. And then that geta all tbe peopie to co.e out who play dulci.er and so on. It'a a thing that get . . . a lot of work and publicity and notice, but I try to gIve the • .are than just a fev lick. on the dulctaer. IS THE DULCIMER SYHSOLIC OF A SIMPLER WAY OP LIFE? It 1. to ua .t.ple dulct.er player.(laughter). No, aa • Datter of fact, when I do workahopa, and there a lot of other dulcu..r playera In the workahopi who play In .uch .are advancad atylel-Leo lret~ner , Roger Nicho l aon, Lorraine Lee-and I'm j ust aort of the H.C.the thing I try to tell people-there are always twenty-five or thirty o r one hundred people clutching their dulcu.ers and looking nervous hearing all these people playing in theae fancy aty les-I'll juat try to get the point across throughout the work8hop that anyone can play, and don't ever (eel that you can ' t play becauae you heard someone play better than you, becauae the dulcu.er's an instrument that sounds good even when played aiaply. SO then we'll tune up together-all one hundred of ua-and juat play "Siople Gifts" or 80IIething like that . I juat tell the people , "Nov, play! No .. tter if you .. ke .tstakea. We're all playing together. You can't go too WToog on the dulciaer becau.e it sounda pretty good no .. tter what you do .• . so if you play soaethinl that you think'. an awful discord, why , no one 's goln~ t o knOW' you did It." And tMt buainesa of all playing toaether alwaYI doea loaething for people. I( it wa. recorded , it would sound Cod-awful •... But it seems to fill a need for thea: they can aay later, "I played -r dulci.. , with' hundred people", or "Iplayed dulci.. r with Jean Ritchie." Then they'll 10 ho~e encouraged and their playing may get better or maybe it won ' t but anyway they'll feel better about it. That ' l one of the main thinls t like about the dulc imer. 00 YOU THINK AS KANT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO KEEP PLAYING DULClKER NOW OR 00 TOU TRINK PART OF IT IS SLIGHTLY FADDISH-PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY iNTERESTED WiLL STiCK WITH IT k~ A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL DROP OUT? 1 think yO\l .. id it. lance tallted to old Francia Hc:Pe,ke in leUa't when we were over there In '52. We aaid "Hello , we'd like to hear yO\l pl'y , " Ind he . . ld , "I thought you'd be coaing pretty 1000, because every twenty yeare 1 get out .y pipee (laughter)." so I think it goea in wavel. Right now the lsp dulcimer, IS thlY call the Appalachian dulciMer in Kentucky , baa had a great big uplurge and Ls stUl coaing up around the country . But jUlt take it In one place, .. y Louiaville , where a lot of .y frlends live. There are a lot of dulciMerl being played •.• but now there ', a big ha..ered dul cu.. r lurge , and last time I wal therl I heard people asking about Iriah harp (laughter) • . . . The Gaelic harp II lort of following the hammered dulcimer, and after tbat 1'. ,ure it ' , loing to be the harpaic hord. Thole kind. of people are going to go on t o tbat, and then, the ir children will go back to the dulc::iller.

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