2000-02, Dulcimer Players News Vol. 26 No. 2 by Dulcimer Players News

~UlCIMfR ~lHYfRS NfWS Volume 26, Number 2

Contents

Networking Dulcimer Clubs

News & Notes

Events

Musical Reviews· Neal Walters Bits and Pieces Profile: Allen Macfarlane ~ Johnny

Cope' Arrangement by Allen Macfarlane

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• Madeline MacNeil, Publisher/Edrtor Tabby Finch, Editorial Assistant Post Office Box 2164 Winchester, Virginia 22604 540/678-1305 540/678-1151, Fax dpn@dpnews.com, E-mail On line at: www.dpnews.com

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Profile: Margaret MacArthur' Heidi Cerrigione

Profile: Cliff Moses

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~ The Blackthom Stick' Arrangement by Cliff Moses

Michigan and the Dulcimer's Story· by Gail Schwandt

Mountain Dulcimer History - Ralph Lee Smith

The Art of Performing' Steve Schneider

Hammered Dulcimer History - Paul Gifford

Hammered Dulcimer • Linda Lowe Thompson

Technical Dulcimer' Sam Rizzetta

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What's NewlMusical Reviews Neal walters

Dulcimers in Cyberspace' Tull Glazener

Dulcimers in Cyberspace -11111 Glazener

What's New' Neal Walters

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The Art of Performing - Steve Schneider

Them Stars' Tune by Margaret MacArthur

Chorus Jig • Arrangement by Linda Lowe Thompson

Advertiser Index Unclassifieds

Columnists Technical Dulcimer' San Rfzzetta Hammer Dulcimer - Unda Lowe Thompson

Eurotunes - DavId Moore

Profiles Rosamond Campbell

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O ne of my favo rite activities when growing up in Richmond, Virginia was to go to the rolle r skating rink on Saturday afternoons. There seemed to be two groups of us-6th th rough 8th grade rs (like me) and high school students, and we generally ignored each other. There was one sweet boy in my 6th grade class (wish I could re member his name) and we'd spend some of those Satu rday afternoons perfecting our skating, holding hands, and e njoying the sights and sounds of the fa mily crowd. Earlier I'd sustained a significant knee injury when I fell off my bicycle. The knee healed, but still would collapse on me now and the n. But, on a pa rticular Saturday at the rink I thought I was practiced and ready to participate in the Grande Finale. This choreographed skate r's waltz was beautiful -going th rough the arched hands, and doing turns and promenades. It didn't matter that the younger ones of us we re n't really invited. I could handle this, and I wa nted to try. SBF (sweet boyfrie nd) was persuaded by my charms, so we headed out on the floor with the big people. For a while everything we nt beautifully. Then my knee collapsed, SBF and I went crashing to the fl oor, and doze ns of people went splat on top of us. The music stopped, stragglers stood up, and some burly high school guy put his hands on his hips and shouted, Who Did T his? Your question is, did I confess? T here are many festivals and workshops listed in this issue of Dulcimer Playe rs News. We've been gathering info rmation for weeks and, sometimes, months. There are ma ny opportunities fo r those of you new to the festivals and dulcimer scene to participate and sha re what you've learned to play on the instruments. Some of you are shy and hang back when a "pro-

-------fessional" jam session gets going- tunes are pe rhaps too fast and the chord changes a bit too intricate. Take it from a professional infi ltrator. Take your chair, your instrume nt, and your self right into the gatherings. When the opportunity arises, start off a tune and delight in your acco mplishme nts. However, if everything faUs apart and the tune comes to a crashing halt in the middle of the floor and a burly dulcimer playe r stands with hands o n hips and shouts, Who Did This?, just kee p your mouth shut. T he next week I was back at the ro ller rink with my SBF and we triumphantly rolled from start to finish in the Grande Finale. Dulcimerrily rolling along,

Madeline MacNeil

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New Dulcimer Clubs FlorIda Caloosahatchee Lap Dulcimer Society Frank Dennis 5118 Rutland Ct., Cape Coral FL 33904 941-542-2066 fdleharpden @compaq.net Tuesdays

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New York Allegany Mountain Dulcimer Players Clark Parry & Lucinda Durkee 55 First Ave., Franklin NY 14737 716-676-2260 3rd Sundays

GeorgIa Name to be determined Dianne Mize PO Box 262, Clarkesville GA 30523 706-754-9096 • artsong@hemc.net HD focus Mlsouri Sinkin' Creek Dulcimer Society Madeleine Kirkland HC 62, Box 570, Salem MO 66560 573-729-8639 • kirkland@fidnet.com Monthly mee tings

North carolina Southern Highlands Dulcimer Club Tricia Hall 5525 Meat Camp Rd., Todd NC 28684 828-297-6664 • snakemtn@boone.net 2nd Wednesdays Pennsylvania Strings & Things Gordon Allem 252 Pullen Station Rd. Quakertown PA 18951 2nd and 4th Tuesdays

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News & Notes IN

MEMORIAM

Hollis Long died November 21 , 1999 at the age of 79. Hollis was a native of Mississippi, a retired painte r, a nd a dulcimer maker for over twenty-five years. He was an avid musician with a special love for nature, and he found ways to intertwine his two loves. Many of his dulcimers include patte rns from nature, such as walnuts or animals. He also used his musical talents as the song director of First Baptist Church in Golden, Mississippi. Hollis was a member of seven dulcimer clubs, and each year he was part of the John C. Campbell Folk School's Fall Festival, the Tishomingo State Park's Dulcimer Days, and many other music and folkl ore festivals. At the funeral service, Hollis' niece and he r husband opened with their singing. Roger Guth performed on the hammered dulcimer and Pure Profit, the musical group to which Hollis had belonged, played some of his favorite songs with his grandson, Wes Deato n, filling in for him in his abse nce. Many said it seemed as if he we re playing along with them. The service ended with a recording of Doc Watson singi ng "What A Friend We H ave In Jesus." Hannah Deaton

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Dulcimer Heaven 10th Annual Spring Dulcimer Week • April 9-15

pring brings West Virginia's mountains to life with the heavenly sounds of dulcimer music! Spring Dulcimer Week is the ideal way to hear, learn , and enjoy the hammered dulcimer or the mountain dulcimer. On the hilly, picturesque Davis & Elkins College campus you'll find five full days of workshops for all age levels, taught by some of the finest musicians in the country.

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Swing Week • July 16-21 No Strings Attached

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Spring 2000 • 5

Events Center for Adult Education, PO Box 9 11 3, Cambridge, MA 02238-9 11 3. 617-547-6789. May 5-6 • Winston·Salem, NC Winston·Salem Dulcimer Festival. Classes and conce rts fea turing MD, HD. Info: Jeff Scbcns, PO Box 616, Meadows of Dan, VA 24120. 540-952-1865. v.t\vw.mcadows-music.com. May 5-6 • Waverly, TN Spring Fling Workshop. Jamming, workshops, open stage (MD). Info: 931·582·7931. blubrdhill @aol.com. May 5-6 • Dodgeville WI MD Workshops and concert, sponsored by the Southern Wisconsin Dulcimcr Club. Info: Katie Waldren, 608·795·2931. ktbmoms@chorus. net. May 5-7 • Cambridge, MA Spring Dulcimer Festival at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (56 Brattle St.). Workshops (MD, HD), concerts, open mike. Info: Cambridge

"Sui cide Stew" supper. Info: Bern ice

Campbell, 288 Adario W. Rd., Shiloh, OH 44878. 419-896- 2808. May 5-7· Silver Falls State Pk, OR Silver Falls Rendezvous, east of Salem, OR. Pacific Northwest hammcred dulcimer (and fri ends) gathering. Concert, workshops, jamming, ope n stage. Info: Pete Ballerstedt, 1260 SW West Hills Rd., Philomath, OR. 541·929-4267. www.Pioneer.net/ballers/site.htm. May 6 • McCalla, AL 27th Annual Southern Appalachian Dulcimer Festival at Tannehill lronworks Historical State Park. Music and craft s. Info: Helon Riggins, 12632 Con· federate Pkwy., McCalla, AL 35111. 205·477-5711, Fax 205·477-9400.

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4th Annual

Southern Ohio Dulcimer Festival May 27 & 28, 2000 Ripley, Ohio New Locafion .• • Elementery School

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May 6 • Columbus, 011 Central Ohio Dulcimer Festival. Workshops fo r MD, HD, guitar, mandolin, banjos. Evening concert. Info: Andy Beyer, 614-846-1779. MaV 6-7 • Claremont, CA Claremont Spring Folk Festival. Stage concerts, workshops (MD, HD), dancing, and craft s. Info: (send a stamp) to C. S. F F., 8755 La Vine St., Alta Lorna, CA 91701. 909-987-5701. Mav 12-14 • Glen Rose, TX Lone Star State Dulcimer Festival at Oakdale Park. Contests for MD and HD players, arts and crafts fa ir, workshops, and concerts. Info: Dana Hamilton, 904 Houston, Arlington, TX 76012. 817-275-3872. www.fl ash.net/-dcturner/ gfest.htm. Mav 13 • Mitchell, IN The Gathering at Spring Mill. Concerts, workshops (HD, MD), jam sessions. Info: Jeff Cummings, Spring Mill State Park, P.O. Box 376, Mitchell , IN 47446. 812-849-4129.

Mav 13 • Chattanooga, TN 1st Annual Mountain Dulcimer Champi· onship, in conjunction with the 7th Annual Spring Festival. Info: Lee Baldwin , PO Box 121, Signal Mountain, TN 37377. 423-886-2642. dulcimer@voL com. Mav 1S-20 • Florence, AL Tennessee River Dulcimer Festival at Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum , Veteran's Drive. Jamming, open stage, sales booths. Camping sites and motels available. Info: Paul and Kathy Harbin, 8075 Co. Road 6, Florence, AL, 35633. 256n67-147 1.

Mav 1S-21 • Coshocton, 011 DulCimer DaVs at Historic Roscoe Vi llage. Mid-Eastern Regional Dulcimer Championships (MD, HD), workshops, jamming, exhibits, sales, concert . Info: Roscoe Village Foundation , 38 1 Hill St. , Coshocton, OH 43812. 740/622-93 10 or 800/877-1830. www.roscoevillagc.com. Mav 21 • Nashville TN Dulcimer DaV sponsored by the Grand Old Dulcimer Club. All day jamming

and stage presenta tions in Two Rivers

Park. In fo: Glen Wilson, 82 18 White Chapel Ct., Brentwood TN 37027, 615-373-4270. Mav 21-26· Danville, KY Dulcimer Rendezvous at the Un. of Kentucky Leadership Center. Beginning th ro ugh advanced classes (MD, HD , harmonica, guitar, fiddle, banjo) . Info: Rodi Jackson, II Charleston Greene, Danville KY 40422, 606-238-7742. jacksons@mis.net. Mav 21-27 • Brasstown, NC Singing with the Mt. Dulcimer Workshop. lnfo: John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800/365-5724. www.folksc hooL com.

Mav 26-28 • Usbon, 011 Dulci·More Festival. Concerts, workshops, mini-concerts, and more (MD, HD). Info: Bill Schilling, 984 Homewood Ave., Salem, OH 44460-38 16. 330-332-4420. members.aoLcom/ ssssbill/mw/dmfest.htm. continues

Our 19th Year!

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Seven days of music alld ffll l 011 the shores of OtIC of tlte Adirondack Park's loveliest lakes. An IIIlforgettable week of iwensive lessons in small classes; private wtorillls; lots of persoflnl attclIliofl; concerts and jams; bird watching; hiking and canoeing; incredible SUf15ets Fo r i"fonf lllt iol1 or to register write David Moore, P.O. Box 358, Aflflapolis Jlln ction, Maryland 20701. Email: dtffloore@clark.uet Webs;Ie: II I IP://IVIVIV. cia rk.lleI/p II bid IlIIoore/llds2000

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New Millennium New Traditions

Excitement is building as more great staff members are joining us with new ideas and new events in both mountain dulcimer playing and construction. The Staff MADELINE M AcNEIL

WAYNE SEYMOUR

J AN ITA BAKER

STEVE SEIFERT

KAREN MUELLER

GARY GALLIER

ANNE LOUGH

LEE ROWE

BILL TAYLOR

HOWIE MITCHELL

LOIS H ORNBOSTEL

JERRY ROCKWELL

RALPH LEE SMITH

KENNETH BLOOM

BETTY SMITH

RON EWING

JOHN HURON

BOB MIZE

MIKE ANDERSON

ALAN DARVEAUX DEBBIE PORTER

CARILYN VICE

PAULANDRY

GWEN OGLESBY

MICHAEL SHULL

GEORGE HAGGERTY

JOE SHELTON

JOHN STOCKARD

FLORA M AcDONALD GAMMON

Events

12路HR. Morning Skill Building Courses: Choose from 7 different skill leve ls, fro m brand-new beginners to advanced.

Scholarships: Sa lly George Memoria l Scholarship for Mou nti an

Afternoon Classes: Over 50 elective classes o n du lcimer traditions, play ing styles and mo re. Afternoon Field Trips into the Mountains: a "Moum a intop

Jam," a "Waterfall Tour," and a music- making ride o n the Great Smoky Mounta ins Rail way.

Dulcimer Teachers donated by Josie Wiseman. Some Youth Scholarsh ips for mo untain dulcimer players aged 12-20. Contact Lo is Hornbostel (address below) (or deta ils.

Get-Acquainted Party-Outdoor barbecue and square dance called by Bob Da lsemer & str ing band. Dulcimer Marketplace

Evening: Faculty Concerts, Part ic ipancs' Open Scage

Dulcimer Orchestra

Building a Traditional Mountain Dulcimer Course. taught by John Huron. Lege ndary builder Bob Mize wi ll also be with us to lend his ex pertise and encouragement. Learn a new craft, have a great time with these two famed "raconteurs," and take home a top-quality trad itional dulci mer. Open to all, but great idea (or spouses and companions of dulcimer playing participants. Week- long class limited to 15 people.

Daytime and Evening Jam Sessions Beautiful. Peaceful and Informal Mountain Campus Economical Tuition, Meals and On-campus Housing

For Your Workshop Catalog and Application contact: Continui ng Education and Su mmer School, Western Carolina Un iversity, Un ivers ity Outreach Center, C ullowhee, NC 28723. Phone (828) 227路7397. E-mail: sdeitz@wcu.edu, or visit our new web page at http://www.wcu.edu

Fo r infor mation on curriculum and staffing, contact Lois Hornbostel at P.O. Box 907, Bryson C ity, NC 28713, or e- mail Ldulc@gte.net

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Spring 2000 • 9

May 26-29 • East Troy, WI Stringalong Weekend. Dulcimer concerts, workshops, singing, and dancing at YMCA Camp Edwards. Bring or rent an instrument. Info: UWM Folk Center, Ann Schmid, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. 800-636-FOLK (3655). www.uwm.edu/Dept/Folk/. May 27-28 • Ripley, 011 Southern Ohio DulcImer Festival. Concerts, jamming, workshops for MD & HD (all levels), guitar, pennywhistle, au toharp. Info: Mel Derickson, River Song Music Shoppe, 7 North 2nd St., Ripley, OH 45167. 937-392-9274. www.riversong musicshoppe.com. May 27-29 • Comer GA Chickenhouse Jam is simply that: camping and jamming. All instruments (including dulcimers) are welcome. Info: Terry Lewis, 770-338-7469, kd4kvy@worldnet.att.net or John Stockard, 912-452-5713, dulcimer4u@ yahoo.com.

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June 2-3 • Owensboro, KY Yellowbanks Dulcimer FestIval at English Park. Concerts, workshops, crafts, food, and vendors. Info: Yellowbanks Dulcimer Society, c/o Gilda Shortt, 3506 Montrose Ct., Owensboro, KY 42303. 270-926-9877. gshortt@bellsouth.net. June 2-4 • Elverson, PA French Creek Dulcimer Retreat. Rustic cabin lodging, jams, workshops, concerts and dancing. Info: Greater Pinelands Dulcimer Society Inc., Pola Ingelsby, PO Box 1144, Medford NJ 08055, 609-953-2622. dulcimergirl@ imagegfx.com. June 2-4 • Greensburg, PA Chestnut Ridge Dulcimer Festival. Workshops (include MD, HD) and concert at the Un. of Pittsburgh, Greensburg. Info: Don and Betty Brinker, 902 Hillview Ave., Latrobe, PA 15650. 724-539-7983. brinkdw@msn.com. June 4-10 • Brasstown, NC Mountain Dulcimer Workshop for novice players. Info: John C. Campbell Folk

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School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown , NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.com. June 9-11 • Clarion, PA Clarion Folk College, held on the campus of Clarion University. Workshops (MD, HD, other instruments) with focus on group playing. Jam sessions and concerts. Info: Kris Stiglitz, Clarion Un., Clarion PA 16214, 814-226-2227. www.personal.psu.edu/lrl/cfc. June 10-11 • Bonner Springs, KS Prairie Dulcimer Club Festival. Workshops, mini-concerts, jamming, cardboard dulcimer building, children's concert, vendors, concert, and more (MD, HD). Info: David Crawford, PO Box 272, Edgerton KS 66021, 913-893-9604. forrest742 @ao l.com. June 11-17 • Brasstown, NC Hammered DulcImer Workshop for novices. Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902.800/365-5724. www.folkschool.

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June 17-18 • Indianapolis, IN Eagle Creek Folk Music FestivaL MD,

June 23-25 • Marshall, HC Walnut Mountain Retreat features a

Folk Life Center of the Smokies. For makers, players and listeners of MD, HD, and harps. Workshops, children's activities and storytelling. Primitive tent camping available. Info: Jean & Lee Schilling, PO Box 8, Cosby, TN 37722. 423-487-5543. lees@planetc.com.

HD, autoharp, guitar and fiddle. Info: Frank Tardy & Connie Morley, Central Indiana Folk Music & Mt. Dulcimer Society, PO Box 1503, Indianapolis, IN

mountain dulcimer weekend with classes for all levels. Info: Don Pedi, 5456 Grapevine Rd., Marshall, NC 28753. 828-689-9126. www.circle.net/-pedi.

46206.317-846-2395.

June 23-25 • Calabasas, CA Summer Solstice Folk Music, Dance, & Storytelling Festival. Workshops (MD,

June 16-18 • Dewey AZ Southwest Dulcimer Festival features

olina University. Courses for all levels of MD playing. Repertoire classes, dulcimer building, concerts, open stage, marketplace, and more. Info: Continuing Ed & Summer School, Western Carolina University, University Outreach Center, Cullowhee NC 28723.

HD), singing, dancing, storytelling and concerts on campus of Soka Un. Info: California Traditional Music Society, 4401 Trancas Place, Tarzana, CA 913565399.818-817-7756. ctms@lafn.org.

828-277-7397.

All-day jam, pot luck supper, annual meeting (6/25), performances. Info: 105 Point Circle, Tullahoma, TN 37388.931455-6800. edge.edge.net/- brust/.

June 16-17 • Cosby, TN Cosby Dulcimer and Harp Festival #24.

workshops (HO, MD), Friday and Saturday concerts under the stars, contra dance, jamming. Info: Anna Duff, PO Box 641, St. David AZ 85630, 520-720-4965. www.brightangelmusic. com!Events-SWDF.html.

June 18-23 • Cullowhee, NC Mountain Dulcimer Week at Western Car-

June 17 • Brethren, MI SplrH of the Woods Folk Festival. Free.

June 19-22 • MI. View, AR Mountain Dulcimer Workshop at the Ozark

Performances, music, dance, children's activities, and crafts at Dickson Township Park. Camping nearby. Info: Spirit of the Woods Music Association, 11171 Kerry Rd., Brethren, MI 49619.

Folk Center. Beginning and intermediate levels. Classes, jams, concerts. Info: Ozark Folk Center, PO Box 500, Mountain View, AR 72560. 870-269-3851. www.ozarkfolkcenter.com.

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June 23-25 .1UlIahoma, TN 11th Paul Pyle Dulcimer Daze. Bar-B-Que,

June 23-25 • Meadows of Dan, VA Hammered Dulcimer Retreat for advanced beginners. Info: Jeff Sebens, 540-7553808. www.meadows-music.com.

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Workshops in: Oldtime, Songwriting, Blues, Folk, Bluegrass, Gospel, Celtic, Fine Arts & Crafts, Acting, Creative Writing, Dance, Drumming, Concerts, Open Mikes, Children 's World Village & morel Catalog/Register: Walt Michael-Director, Common Ground on the Hili, WMC,

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June 24-25 • Waynesville, 011 Old Tyme Music Festival at Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village. Concerts, open stage, workshops for MD, banjo, guitar, harmonica, spoons, and more. Info:

John Noftsger, PO Box 224, Spring Valley, OH 45370. 937/862-5551. June 24-30 • Blue Mt. Lake, NY Northeast Dulcimer Symposium XVI. Weeklong intensive lessons in small classes for MD, HD. Concerts, jams, and dancing. Info: David Moore, PO Box 358, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701. dtmoore@c1ark.net. June 3O-July 2 • Soldiers Grove, WI Irle Valley Dulcimer Camp. Workshops (MD, HD) for all ages, all levels. Families welcome, enrollment limited. In fo: Gloria Hays, Rt. 2, Box 2268, Soldiers Grove, WI 54655. 608-536-3616. irie@mwt.net. July 2·14 • Westminster, MD Common Ground on the Hili. Two weeks of study (includes MD, HD), Native Annerican flute construction, singing,

songwriting, dance, percussion, and more. Info: Common Ground on the Hill, WMC, Western MD College, Westminster, MD 21157. 410-857-2771. www.commongroundonthehill.com. July 6-9 • Carthage, MO Summerfest 2000_ Workshops, concerts, jam sessions, crafts. MD, HD, and other instruments. Info: Lloyd Woods, 316-389-2377 or 417-624-3580. dulcifer@juno.com. July 8 • Quaker City, 011 21 st Annual Dulclmer/Autoharp Competi· tlon. MD featured , HD encouraged. Ohio Hills Folk Festival; a small town competition with a big heart. Info: 740-679-2843 or 740-679-2232 .. July 8-9 • Morris, IL Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festival. Workshops, concerts, jamming, dancing, children's activities (MD, HD). Info: Diane Ippel, PO Box 801 , Morris IL 60450, 708-331-6875. www.enteract.com/rwilliam/gwdf.

July 8-9 • Westminster, MD Common Ground American MusiC & Arts Festival. Features HD and MD, blues, Native American music, Bluegrass, old time, gospel, Celtic, ethnic food, and more. Info : Common Ground on the Hill, WMC, Westminster, MD 21157. 410-857-2771. www.commonground onthehill.com. July 9-Aug 5 • Swannanoa, NC The SWannanoa Gathering. Week-long workshops in the folk arts. Dulcimer Week (HD, MD) 7/16-22. In fo: The Swannanoa Gathering, Warren Wilson College, PO Box 9000, Asheville, NC 28815.828-298-3434 or 298-3325, ext. 426. www.swangathering.org. July 9-August 13 • Elkins, WV Augusta Heritage Arts Workshops. Five weeks of classes, concerts, dances, etc.,

(includes MD, HD). Info: Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, WV 26241. 304-637-1209. www@augustaheritage.com.

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Performers to indUlfe: ']v(i/(g. .fltnae.rson, Cathy Ciofac. & .fltrt Lang, Steve Craig, Steve 'Entfsrey, Sfr.erri :Farrey, 'Diane Ippef ana 2?p6 'Wif{iams, Car{ Johnson, 'I1ie Jones :Fami{y, 'Bif{ 2?p6inson ana :Friem{s, rrFwmasina, 'Bi{{ '!Ian 'Dusen, 'Dan Zafr.n & chris ']v(c'1l(p.mara, ami many more! 'Visit our weosite for jurtfier upaates: www.enteract_coml-rwif[iamlgwtfj

Concerts - 'WorK§fr.ops - OU-Ttme 'Dance - ChiUren s .9I.ctivities - Instrument Crafters ']v(usica{ 'Rs-coraings & .9I.ccessories - :Fooa '!IenMrs Sponsored by HANDS of Illinois. a not-far-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting dulcimer music. in associati on with the lIlinois Department of Natural Resources and the City of Morris. Partially supponed by a gran t from the Illinois Ans Council. Please to not reprint or redistribute without permission. Contact dpn@dpnews.com.

rn ulcimer Week at the Swannanoa Gathering offers students the opportunity to learn the , U hammered or mountain dulcimer (or both!) in a relaxed and intimate setting of small classes and supportive staff, with some of the country's finest teachers and players. The workshop also runs concurrently w ith our new Sing Swing & String Week, which offers a children's program, and classes in singing, auto harp, ukulele, banjo, guitar, fiddle, bass, mandolin ane! more. Dulcimer Week students are free to take classes in either program. No other dulcimer worksho~ can offer all this: • • • • •

Highest-quality instruction • Sp,ecial C~\il:cSt..E:Qr~chnlerlt Small classes in a relaxed atmosphere Personal tutorials Take classes in both types of dulcimer Take classes in Sing Swing & String program •

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1)ance ,,/vI.CnnLlli1.TI.du1cimerwith 1)an 'Pedi July 9-15 "Celtic Week" • July 16-22 "Dulcimer Week" • July 16-22 "Sing Swing & String Week" July 23-29 "Performance Lab • July 23-29 "Old-Time Music & Dance Week" July 30-Aug.5 "Contemporary Folk Week" • July 30-Aug.5 "Guitar Week" Call or write for a FREE catalog: The Swannanoa Gathering, Warren Wtlson CoUe~, PO Box 9000 Asheville, NC 28815-9000 Tel: (828) 298-3434 • Email: gathering@warren-wilson.edu • WebSIte: WW\v.swangathertng.org

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SAM Fest 2000 Summer Acoustic Music Festival

July 27 - 29, 2000 Houston, Texas Les & Gary Gallier and their band Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts . . . Charles Whitmer Aubrey Atwater & Elwood Donnely ,.." Peggy Carter ..... Rick Thum Bonnie Carol ..... Paul Andry,.." Guy George - Katie Waldren"'" Les Ami ..... Radio Flyer

16 Classes each hour - 6 Hours each day Texas State Autoharp Championship! (Winfield sanctioned) Classes for All levels of Mt. Dulcimer, Hammer Dulcimer, Autoharp Also Folk Harp, Fiddle, Mandolin, Guitar For more information contact: Peggy Carter, '6'42 Hexham Dr. Spring TX 77379 Call 28'-370-9495. or Email: SAMFest97@aol.com

Kentucky Music Week July 16 - 21, 2000 ~q=~~~EEi::d Bardstown, Kentucky Come Join us for a WDnderful week of classes, JalM, ctHICe""'. and funl Classes includ. fretted dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, tin whistle, basketry, clogging, fiddle, banjo, autoharp, spinning and weaving, harp, ballad singing, guitar, dtJlI making, harmony singing, instN",.nt building, and morel Classes tJre held in one building, fully aCCtI$$ibl., air-conditioned with ctJnYfJniently do_ parking. LtJdglng is at BttrdsttJwn's Holiday Inn, alStJ hosting our 24-htJUr JtJm rooml IM'lnJctol's this yeaI' Include: David Schlltlufel', SUsan Trump, Rob hreftln, Sary GtllllfII', Dan EWlns, SftJYfJ S.ifert, MtJurelln s./Iers, RoWll, Fred Meyer, Cathy Barton tIIId DtI~ PtII'tI, DtJvid JamBs, Mark Wade, Jim Miller, Moille Freibert, NetJl WtJlters, Sreg JoWtli$(Js, and many, many morel

For moIW infortntJtitJII til' ttl downltHId and print tJUt tJ copy of this year's brtJChlJlW,

pI_ase ch«k tJUr web sl,.: www.texas.netl-sguarellkmw.YoucanaIStJcaIlNancyBtJl.kel. at (!J02) 348-6237 or write KM W, Inc., P. O. Bt»t 86, BardsttJwn, KY 40004. KYTreeFrol@aoLcom

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July ~10 • Warrenville, IL Warrenville Folk Festival. Concerts, work· shops (MD, HD), jamming, crafts, children 's ac tivi ties. Free event. Info: Dona

Benkert, PO Box 748, Warrenville, IL 60555. 630-717- 8495 or 630-393-1247. July ~14 • West Milton, III Shady Grove Appalachian Dulcimer Camp. MD instruction (alllcvels),jamming. Sleeping cabi ns, RV hook-ups, meals included. Info: Sweetwater, PO Box 164, Covington, OH 45318. 937-473-5176. www.myfreeoffice.com/ sweetwater.

July 13-16 • Evart, MI Dulcimer Funfest at the Osceola County Fairgrounds. Mainly HD, some MD. Concerts, workshops, open stage, jamming, and sales booths. Camping available. In fo : Donn a Beckwith, 817 Innes NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.616-459-6716. July 16-21 • Bardstown, KY Kentucky Music Week. Instruction in MD, HD, other instruments, basket

making, and si nging. Concerts. In fo : Nancy Barker, Box 86, Bardstown, KY 40004. 502-348-5237. www.texas.net/- quare1/kmw. July 21-23 • Binghamton, NY Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering. Workshops (MD, HD, autoharp), concerts, open stage, cont ra-da ncing, and jamming.

Primitive camping available. Info: Ed Ware, 1259 Fowler Place, Binghamton, NY 13903. 607/669-4653. www.people. ne. mediaone. net/jon I/cranberry. June 23-25 • Altamont, NY Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance. Altamont Fairgrounds. Concerts, dancing, workshops, family activities (MD, HD). Info: Old Songs, Inc., P.O. Box 399, Guilderland, NY 12084.518-765-2815. www.oldsongs. org. July 23-28 • Kansas City, MIl Heartland Dulcimer Camp, a week of study in MD and HD (all levels). Jam sessions, workshops, open stage, concerts. Info: Esther Kreek, PMB 206,

1156 W 103rd St., Ka nsas City MO 64114.816-942-6233. July 27-29 • Houston, TX Sam Fest features workshops for MD, HD, autoharp, fiddle , folk harp, guitar, pennywhistle, and more. Autoharp contest. Info: Peggy Carter, 16142 Hexham Dr., Spring, TX 77379. 281-370-8993. samfest97@aol.com. July 27-30 • louisville, KY Kentucky Music Weekend. Concerts, workshops, dances, and crafts at Iroquois Park. Also see July 19th listing. Info: Nancy Barker, Box 86, Bardstown, KY 40004. 502-348-5237. www.texas.net/-quarel/kmw. July 2B-August 5 • Mendocino, CA Lark In The Morning Music Celebration. A celebration of music and dance from many cultures. Info: Lark in the Morning Summer Camp, P.O. Box 1176, Mendocino, CA 95460. 707-964-5569. www.larkinam.com.

Folk Notes Dulcimers A Large Selection of Quality

Folk Instruments-Great Prices See Our Ad in The UnClassineds! Dennis DenHartog Ph#: 219/484-9078 www.folknotes.com

July 21. 22, Unitarian Universalist Church Binshamton, New York No Strings Allached Hammered UU,ICllJe,! Lucy Joan Sollogub fretted Dulcimer Bob Lewis Autoharp Wurkshops · Concerts · 1).lIKing Jamming ·flymn Sing- Ve:odcxs

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July 29-30 • Kirtland Hills, OH Uttle Mountain Folk Festival. Entertain-

PO Box 113, Lake Zurich, IL 60047. 847-540-5527. Kmoretti@aol.com.

ment, children's activities, living history, vendors. Info: Harry Hopes, Lake County Historical Center, 8610 King Memorial Rd., Mentor, OH 44060. 440-255-8979.

August 7-10· Mt. View, AR . Summer Hammered Dulcimer Workshop at

July 3O-Aug 5 • Brasstown, NC Dulcimer Reunion for Intermediate HD and MD players. John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.com.

August 4-7 • Ireland O'carolan Harp & ll'ad. Music Festival. Concerts, Irish music sessions, ceilidhe, workshops for harp, flute, tin whistle, fiddle, banjo, and other instruments. Info: Paraic Noone, Keadue, Co. Roscommon, Ireland. Phone (078) 47204. ocarolan@eircom.net.

August 6 • Lake Zurich, IL Lake County Folk Festival. Five stages, including a dulcimer stage. Workshops and jamming. Info: Kate Moretti,

the Ozark Folk Center. Beginning and intermediate levels. Classes, jams, concerts. Info: Ozark Folk Center, PO Box 500, Mountain View, AR 72560. 870269-3851. www.ozarkfolkcenter.com.

August 9-13· near Grand Junction CO Moons and Tunes Boat Dip, a raft, canoe, and music trip on the Colorado River. ($200 deposit due May 15th.) Info: Bonnie Carol, 15 Sherwood Rd., Nederland CO 80466, 303-258-7763. www.BonnieCarol.com.

August 11-13. Salem, WV Dulcimer Weekend at Fort New Salem. Workshops (MD, HD), concert, and jamming. Info: Carol Schweiker, Fort New Salem, Salem-Teikyo University, Salem, WV 26426. 304-782-5245. Fort@Salem.WVnet.edu.

Mid-August • WA or OR Kindred Gathering, a gathering for friends of modes and dulcimerie. Workshops, concert (MD). Info: Susan Howell, 6529 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle WA 98103. showell@mcn.org.

August 18-20 • Mt. Laguna CA Gathering at Mt. Laguna. Workshops for dulcimer, harp, guitar, bowed psaltery, and more. Concert Saturday night. Info: Susan Raimond, PO Box 213, Mt. Laguna, CA 91948. 619-473-1213.

August 18-20 • Marshall, NC Walnut Mountain Retreat features classes for all levels of MD, fiddle, and banjo. Info: Don Pedi, 5456 Grapevine Rd., Marshall, NC 28753.828-689-9126. www.circle.net/-pedi.

August 20-26 • Washington, ME Meadowlark features classes, concerts, and jamming for MD, HD, singing, and other old-time and Celtic instruments. Info: Jerry Bryant, 25 Columbia Dr., Amherst MA 01002.413-256-6606. stagerj@paulsmiths.edu. continues

MEADOWlARK Music camp for adults in mid-coast Maine. ""f.~ Aug. 20-26, 2000

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FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT: Jerry Bryant (413) 256-6606 25 Columbia Drive, Amherst, MA stagerj@paulsmiths.edu

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August 25-27 • West Dover, VT Dulcimer Daze, Open stage, workshops and concerts (MD focus) . Info: Folk Craft Music, PO Box 1572, Wilmington, VT 05363 . 802/368-7437. swewater@ saver.net.

August 25-27' Midland, MI Midland Dulcimer Festival & Central MI Old Car Club, Antique Engine & TraclOr Gathering. Jamming, workShOps, concerts. Info: Bill Kuhlman, 2769 S. Homer Rd., Midland, MI 48640. 517835-5085. beeps@concentric.net.

Moons & Tunes with

BONNIE CAROL Moons and tunes, notes and boats: join us for our second annual musical

503 240th St., SE, Bothell, WA 98021. 425-485-4193. Cimin026@aol.com. Aug 28-Sept 3 • Avoca, IA Old-Time Country Music Contest and Festival. Contests and workshops (HD, MD, other instruments) at the Pottawattamie County Fairgrounds. Info: Bob Everhart, PO Box 492, Anita, IA 50020. 712-762-4363. September 3-9 • Brasstown, NC llalmlered Dulcimer Workshop for beginners. Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800-365-5724_www.folkschool.com .

August 25-27 • Grafton, IL Great RIver Road Festival. Concerts, workshops (include MD, HD), State contests for MD, HD, open stage, vendors. Info: Johanna Nicholas, 314-6778017. Registration forms: Jeanette Murrary, 314-677-8017 or Netters27@ aol.com; www.angelfird.com/il/gateway.

September 8-10 • Cooksburg, PA Cook Forest Dulcimer and Folk Music Gathering. Workshops, concerts, jamming for all folk instruments. Info: Cook Forest Sawmill Center for the Arts, PO Box 180, Cooksburg, PA 16217. 814/9276655. \V\V\V. personal.psu.edu!lrl/festival.

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new release by Helicon is welcome news indeed and A Winter Solstice is yet another outstanding album from the talented trio of Ken Kolodner on hammered dulcimer and fiddle, Chris Norman on flutes, piccolo, pipes, wh istle, piano, and percussion, and Robin Bullock on guitar, cittern, fiddle and piano. Helicon presents a Winter Solstice concert every year at the Meyerhof Symphony Hall in Baltimore. The repertoire consists of seasonal music from around the world, traditional Christmas favorites, and international traditional dance music. The set list is usually very eclectic and this diversity is fully captured on this solstice collection. I imagine this recording will provide source material for most of us as we search for just the right seasonal tune to spruce up our own holiday programs. This task will be made easier by the detailed and fascinating notes. While the breadth of new and unusual material is remarkable, it is no less so than quality of the music itself. All three of these guys rank at or near the very top of their profession and the musicianship on this recording is uniformly outstanding. The dulcimer, flute, or guitar or cittern is generally featured, with the other instruments providing textures, nuances and rhythms. The music is powerful and playful at the same time.

The arrangements are imaginative, com-

plex and downright riveting. It's hard to imagine that anyone would be disappointed with this recording. Tunes include Erev Shel ShoshanimiGod Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Christmas Eve, Tincu/Pawell, Kenyan Christmas Carol, Murchy!Rasmus Storm/Fransk Morgenstjerne, and many more.

entucky Standard Band consists of Nancy Johnson on mountain dul-

cimer and voca ls, Alice Burton on

hammered du lcimer, Ken Baldwin on guitar, and David Wilson on violin, cello, mandolin and guitar. Their last

album fast became one of my favorites and Kentucky Skies is a wonderful follow-up to that. There are very few bands that can equal this group at what they do best-original material that is solidly rooted in traditional sensibilities and features both mountain and hammered dulcimers. Nancy Johnson wrote most of the band's material and her mountain dulcimer is, to my ear, the most prominent part of the band's sound. David Wilson's fidd le and mandolin are the perfect complement to Nancy's dulcimer and provide a lovely legato counterpoint that seems to stretch the sound in a kaleidoscopic variety of ways. Alice's hammered dulcimer and Ken's guitar weave in and out, helping to build momentum, volume and tension that usually releases back to Nancy's dulcimer for resolution. That's only a rough generalization though since each of the band members has a number of places to shine and they all take advantage of each opportunity. Guest Peter Madcat Ruth adds some delicious bluesy textures on ha rmonica as well. The title cut is one of only two vocals and it's a wonderful, evocative song. My one real regret in listening to this album is that Nancy doesn't sing more. Tunes include Rain on Damby Flats, Lost Hearts, Baptism of Love, and Parallel Lines.

ewcomer Jennifer Mylod plays baritone and standard mountain dulcime rs, Indian flute and cello on At This Moment, her debut recording of all original material. Phillip Mylod joins her on bodhran and assorted pe rcussion, while guitar wizardry is provided by John Wilson. Tom White (of Wizmak) did most of the engineering and contributed solid support on violin, whistle and bass, and Abigail Mylod adds cello on one tune. This is a superb album . Jennifer's songs are very personal and draw you into her way of looking at things. Above all, this lady can sing. The arrangements are well structured, well played and very sophisticated in the best possible sense of that word. The dulcimer, guitar and flute weave in and around the vocals like a comfortable pair of shoes that had me

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thinking " that's really neat" on virtually every song. The dulcimer playing is very solid and serves as the framework for most of the arrangements. The guitar and the flute add just the right amount of "flash ;" the bass adds an important texture and the bodhran serves as an underlying heartbeat that makes the music breathe. The engineering is excellent and you'll find yourself amazed that all this was accomplished for presumably much less money than your average pop superstar spends on demo tapes. I expect we'll be hearing a lot more from Jennifer. Titles include The Wild One, The Princess of Hay, Graveyard of the Sea, and At this Moment.

arry Conger is a Winfield mountain dulcimer champion and Kelly's Fancy will leave you in little doubt as to why he won. Larry plays solo dulcimer on fourteen selections ranging from the traditional to the contemporary with a classical piece or two thrown in. All of it is tastefully done and masterfully played. He plays the uptempo numbers, such as the title cut, with amazing dexterity and complete control. Not a note is out of place and the balance he achieves is remarkable. As dazzled as I was by these technical skills, I think it's Larry's superb 'touch' and his sensitivity on the slower tunes that are

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his special talents. These are the skills that truly set him apart from ordinary mortals like you and me-well, ok, I can't speak for you but I do know about me! One of life's little mysteries will continue to be the question of how he manages all this without squeaking strings or annoying pick noise. This outstanding album is both soothing and stimulating. Titles include Swingin' the Blues, Siciliana, Tennessee Waltz, and Old Rosin the Beau/Bumble Bee in a Hollow Log.

alph Lee Smith is widely known as one of the leading authorities on the history and origins of the mountain dulcimer. The several scholarly books he has written on this subject are generally regarded as the last word in any discussion of the dulcimer's early history. He believes that the recent popularity of the instrument has bappe ned so swiftly that much of the heritage of the instrument has been left

behind. Ralph's new book-Songs and Tunes of the Wilderness Roadattempts to fix that problem and is a combination of history and songbook that he hopes will "make a start at reuniting this beautiful instrument with the people, the music, and the world from which it came." The book includes a general overview of the development of the Wilderness Road and elaborates on the idea that our modern dulcimer was "born along the road somewhere between Roanoke and Cumberland Gap. " The re are some excellent photographs to accompany the text, and more than half the book is devoted to the music of the road and to the people who traveled it. Ralph includes valuable information on the ballads, scales and modes associated with the music of the region and he provides transcriptions and TAB arrangements of sixteen of the most enduring tunes. These include Cumberland Gap, The Devil's Nine Questions, Sourwood Mountain, Shady Grove, and Bold Robing. A short essay

accompanies each selection, serving to provide historical perspective and lore about the song. Some of the tunes are presented in more than one setting. This is a great and affordable resource, it will enrich our musical experience as dulcimer players, and it's a good source of some great tunes! It will be a significant addition to your musical library. 0

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_ _ _ _ 2000 Z)~ A generous collection of challenging pieces for the mountain dulcimer written in standard notation and tablature by these talented artists: Janita Baker, Laurel Benedict, Mark Biggs, Rob Brereton, Rosamond Campbell, Bonnie Carol, Mike Casey, Carrie Crompton, Wayne Erbsen, Bud Ford, Lance Frodsham, Neal Hellman, Lois Hornbostel, Madeline MacNeil, Karen Mueller, Mark Nelson, Jerry Rockwell, Sally Rogers, Edward Scheib, Cyntia Smith, Shelley Stevens, Bill Taylor, Thomasina, Susan Trump, and Mara Wasburn. Many of these selections require a dulcimer w ith the 6+ fret. Includes a few tunes for the dulcimer with 4 equidistant strings. A companion CD is included, making this 96-page book an exceptional value! Book/CD set (98374BCO) $24.95.

This intriguing compilation features selections by these gifted performers: Karen Ashbrook, Nicholas Blanton, Jane Chevalier, Mitzie Collins, Carrie Crompton, Brenda Hunter, Carole Koenig, Ken Kolodner, Madeline MacNeil, Dave Neiman, Jeanne Page, Robin Petrie, Lucille Reilly, Sam Rizzetta, Maggie Sansone, Linda G. Thomas, Linda L Thompson, Rick Thum, and Beverly Woods. Written in standard notation only for the 12/ 11 to 15/ 16 hammered du lcimer. A companion CD is included, making this 72-page book an exceptional value! Book/CD set (98375BCO) $24.95.

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You have as ked a vcry impo rt ant ques ti on. Your 3rd fret determines what key, o r scale, yo u are in . If you are tuned to DAD th e no te on yo ur 3rd fre t of your melody and bass string is G. This means th at yo u are in th e key of G and th e no tes in th at sca le a re : GAB C D E F# G. All your F's are sharped. The 6- 1/2 fret gives you th e half step between C and D and th at makes the 61/2 o n th ese two strings a C#. Your en tire me lody and bass strings now are,

(starting with D o n th e open string): (0) E F# GAB C C# D E F# GAB C e tc. (U nde rlined notcs are o n 3rd, 4th , 5th, 6th, 7th , 8th , 9th, and 10th frets.) If your middle strin g is tun ed to A that puts D on the 3rd fret of th a t string. That means that the middle string is tuned to th e key of D and yo ur notes in th at sca le are: D E F# G AB C# D. Again, th e 6-1 /2 fret gives yo u th e half step betwee n G and A makin g the 6-1 /2 a G# on th at string. From (A) on th e open middle string you now have: (A) B C# D E F# G G# A B C# D.E F# G etc. U nless yo u have a 13- 1/2 fret th at extra no te th at ison the 6-1/2 fre t does not repeat itse lf. Linda, yo u need to be familiar with the notes th at are in all th e sca les (there are fifteen scales but yo u won 'l use all of them o n your dulcimer) o r have a chart that shows them.

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he mountain dulcimer has a lways seemed to b. e a n o utgrow th of my famIly background. I was born in Edi nburgh, Scotland, a nd emigrated with my pa re nts to the United States when I was five. Although my mo the r sang Scots-Irish ballads and songs and my fat her recounted Scottish history to me as I was growi ng up, very little of my cu ltural heritage made an impression on me. I was more interested in becoming an American at the time. While I was living in Norfolk, Virginia, a friend took me up on the Blue Ridge Parkway o ne Sun day afternoon. There, in some of the overl ook areas, were local musicians engaged in jam sessio ns. Several of them were playing mo untain du lcimers and playing just as fast as the fidd lers could. After a move to Kansas, [ remembered the music o n the Parkway that Sunday aftern oon yea rs ago, and purchased an instrument on a la rk. Since I had no formal music tra ining, I learned strictly by trial and error. Tuning the instrume nt was a dishearte ning experi ence and frequently resulted in broken strings. I remembe r how thrilled I was when I fin ally mastered the "bum-diddy" strum pattern! The learning went slowly until I spent some time with othe r musicians who willingly shared their skills and knowledge. I attended several dulcimer and folk fest ivals and found my playing to be most influenced by Leo Kretzner and Neal Hellman. Since then, I look for opportunities to sha re the music wi th others. Teaching beginners is especially reward ing because I reme mber how overwhelming my own learning process was at first. [ usually remind these students that it was almost two years before [ could play o n stage or in a jam session. Fifteen years later, I found that my inte rests lay primarily in American and Scots-Irish fo lk music, a natural for the mounta in dulcimer. In 1994, [ completed my first record ing, Kindred Spirits-A Sampler of New and Old A m ericall alld Celtic Music. An interest in American history has added a nother dimension to the music. I starting doing performances in period costume at historical re-enactments fo r the pre-Civil War period. This was a n exciting time when Americans were moving westward across the Great Plains and the mounta ins to Oregon, California, and Santa Fe. Since then, [ have continued to follow my interests in American history and I have been doing programs for the Kansas Arts Commission on the 19th immigration of Europeans to America and o n life on the Kansas Great Plains before 1900. My interest in immigrants led to my second recording project, The Passage to the New World. [ now a lso conduct workshops for children a nd adu lts on building cardboard dulcimers and o n playing their finished prod ucts.

About the TUne: "Jo hnny Cope" is about an English gene ral who was defeated by the Jacobite Scottish Highlanders at the Battle of Presto n pans in 1745. I found this particular arrangement in a book of tunes for the Northumbrian pipes. My arrangement is in the key of B mino r and can be either flat- or fingerpicked. Except for the hamme r-o n at the beginning of the first measure, I have left the o rn amentation up to the player. Almost every musician I know has hislher own set of preferences. I hope you enjoy the piece. 0

Allen Macfarlane 1723 W 27th rerrace Lawrence KS 66046

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by Heidi Cerrigione • Ellington, Connecticut

Margaret is a wonderful performer

with a rare gift for te lling a story through song. She spent most of her ch ildhood in the Ozarks of Missouri where she became interested in traditional ballads and songs. She has traveled widely a nd collected songs in many regions of the country, most notably in Western Kentucky a nd in Vermont where she has li ved since 1948. She a lso sings songs of Arizona, where she lives and performs during the win ter. Not only does her music ring true with yea rs of painstaking research and fi e ldwork, but he r ability to paint pictures with words gives her songs unusual poignancy and humor. In the late 1950s Sandy Simondson,

wife of a colleague of Margaret's husband at Marlboro College, loaned Marga re t a James Edward (U ncle Ed) Thomas mountain dulcimer. Margaret learned to play on this old black walnut instrument, loving it so much that her husband John made her a reprod uction of it in Vermont cherry when the Simondsons moved away, Thomas dulcimer and all. Many years later, after a concert Margaret gave in Chicago, Sandy surprised her with the gift of the beloved Thomas dulcimer. In addition to the mo untain dulcimer, Margaret accompa nies herself on guitar and harp-zithe r. In 1962 John restored a small harp-zither made in Columbus, O hio in 1896. This has been

widely copied by instrument makers who refer to it as a "MacArthur Harp." For many years Margaret, as a n artist-in-residence in Vermont e lementary schools, helped students write songs based on old local manuscripts or on interviews with town elders. Many of these songs appear in her /lennont Heritage Songbook, published by the Vermont Folklife Center. In J985 , New England Arts Biennial officials of the U niversity of Massachusetts in Amherst named Margaret o ne of seven "New England Living Art Treasures." They lauded her for her voice a nd for having " uncovered the core of New England life through her research and performance of traditional

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Recordings by Margaret MacArthur

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music." In 1997 Vermont's Senator Jeffords invited Margaret to represent the state on Vermont Day at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Margaret is often joined by her sons Dan and Gary, a nd by her daughter Megan, and they are known collectively as The MacArthur Fam ily. T heir concerts are musical explorations of rural li fe, with Dan and Megan adding contemporary compositions to their mother's traditional songs. Their rich vocal harmonies are complemented by the acco mpaniments of Dan's homemade gu itar, Megan's acoustic bass, and

Gary's fiddle or homemade mandolin. The friendly banter between siblings along with Margaret's e nte rtaining way

of keeping everyone in li ne, make their concerts even more enjoyable. Not on ly has Marga re t collected old songs, she has written a nd adapted many of her own. In the case of "Them Stars," she found the poem titled "Star Planters" in the Ben Gray Lumpkin Archives at the University of Colorado. lt was contributed by Emma Rachel Moomaw Hutchins in 1964 as a song collected by Hazel Ecker of Green River, Utah. Unable to locate either wo man, Margaret wrote a tune for the poem, after it had lingered in her mind fo r years. This ballad of Native American lore is the title cut on the fa mily's most recent recording. For ease of singing, Margaret plays it in the key of Bb, as

transcribed here. She tunes her du lcimer in a 1-5-8 tuning, or Bb-F-Bb. If yo u're not playing along with her recording, O-A-D works just fine. And to Margaret, from all of us who have enjoyed your songs and ballads, we extend a warm thank you and look forward to many more performances and recordings! 0

Margaret MacArthur Box 15, MacArthur Road, Marlboro, VT 05344 Heidi Cerrigione has contributed reviews and music to publications such as Music Hound Folk, Autoharp Clearinghouse, and Autoharp Quarterly. She has also published several mountain dulcimer books as Doofus Music with Neal Walters.

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like to think of myself as an Irish traditional musician what happens to pl ay the hamme red dulcimer, rather tha n a dulcimer player who plays Irish music. I concentrate on playing Irish music in a traditiona l style. Since the dulcimer is not an Irish traditional instrument, you might ask how, o r why, did I take up this combination? The answer is that I didn't kn ow any better. In the early eighties, San Antonio was not a hotbed of eithe r Irish music or the hamme red dulcimer. I was a guitar and 5-string banjo player when e ight folk musicians decided to form St. James's Ga te in 1982. At the time, there were too many guitarlbanjo playe rs in the gro up so I decided to learn to playa me lody instrument. About that same time, I heard Malcolm Dalglish and Grey Larsen's album Ballish Misfortun e and was inspired to try the dulcimer. Since I was new to traditional music, it didn 't occur to me that there might be other instruments considered more traditiona lly Irish. The "Gate" was, and still is, an Irish traditiona l band, and went on to win the All-Irela nd music competition for musical grou ps in 1986, in Listowel, Coun ty Kerry. During the next several yea rs we played in a number of major Irish festivals around the count ry, and I got my first significant exposure to good Irish musicians. At that point I began to appreciate that as a group we were pretty good, but I, as an individual, was not playing with a n Irish style. In 1988 I went to the Augusta Heritage Workshops in Elkins, West Virginia to take Karen Ashbrook's Irish hammered dulcimer class. A full week of total imme rsion in Irish

music, dance, and sessio ns was quite an experience. Between

Kare n's guidance on what to listen for and a wealth of excelle nt musicians present for the week, I finally began to get the "feel" of Irish traditional music. My wife and I had such a great time we made Irish Week at Augusta our vaca tion for the next several yea rs. I took workshops on some of the more trad itional Irish instruments to learn more about the essential e le ments of Irish music - the ornamentation, the phrasing, and the lilting rhythms. At this point I began developing my own techniques for playing in this style on the dulcimer and teaching them in festival workshops. In 1992 1 began competing in the Irish music competitions to get a measure of where I was and guidance on what to improve or develop; it also inspired me to develop things I otherwise probably wo uld not have done. I placed third and then two seconds in the Fleadh Cheoil na H'Eireann, the All Ireland Music Competition, in the category of Miscellaneous Instruments. In these competitions you must play four Irish traditional tunes of different rhythms, or One can be an air. The essential ele ment is to play them in an Irish traditional style.

What is the Irish style of playing? It's a special feel that the music has. The dance tunes have a natural rhythm that comes from the way the melody is played rather than depending on rhyt hm instruments such as guita rs and drums; moreover, there is a sense of lift in this rhythm that comes in part from the internal phrasing. Ornamentation is liberally used to emphasize certai n notes and to color the melody. Some of the aspects of obtaining this "feel" a re not immediately obvious or natural to ham mered dulcimer players, such as certain e ighth notes being longe r than othe rs, or playing in cut time rathe r than 4/4 time. In applying ornaments it is important that they do not inte rfere with the melody or the rhythm, so I bounce in the extra notes rather than playing them individually. That way I do n't change my hamme ring patte rns and can include them o r omit them at will. In Irish sessions inexperienced musicians can be guilty of playing 100 mechanically and without phrasing or rhythm. The " feel " of Irish music can be learned only by listening to Irish musicians, not from writte n music; and internalized until it becomes the natural way to play. When teaching workshops, I try to use simple, easy-to-Iearn exercises that help players develop the various aspects of this style. Details of playing ornaments and other aspects of Irish music, along with music for the tunes from my CD, The Coming of Spring, can be found on my web site at www. cliffmoses.com. 0

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by Gail Schwandt Chesaning, Michigan ven if you avoid politics like the plague, you'll probably be interested the the story of a bill which was introduced ( in the Michigan Senate on October 5, 1999. On that date Senator Mike Goschka submitted Bill 788, which would designate the hammered dulcimer the official state instrume nt of Michigan. The project began when some players in Michigan jokingly referred to the hamme red dulcimer as their state instrume nt. One person, Gail Schwandt of Chesaning, began thinking, "Yes, it should be the official state instrument! " In Marc h 1999 she began contacting lawmakers and other people for support. Late r a small group addressed the Evart, Michigan City Council asking for their support. (Evart is the home of the Dulcimer Funfest held at the Osceola Fairgrounds the third weekend of July each yea r.) The Evart council gave its support and the Chesaning council soon followed. The Sagina w News ran a supportive front page article with a picture of Gail and her dulcimer on April 24, 1999. With that article word began to spread: a group wanted the dulcimer named the state instrument. Petitions in support of the idea began to be circulated. Clipboards were passed from hand to hand as thousands of dulcimer lovers endorsed the idea of making it a reality. Signatures came from all across Michigan and many other states; even three foreign countries were represented. A way was needed to expose all the lawmake rs, including the governor, to the cha rms of the instrument. They had to know what it was all about to vote in favor of the project. No t only did they need to see the dulcime r but they had to hear it a nd learn a bit of its history in Michigan. Why not just take the dulcimer to the capitol? The paperwork was completed a nd word put out, "Come for a Play-In in Lansing on October 5th." Although commitments came from musicians all over the lower peninsula of Michigan there was no way to know exactly how ma ny fo lks would actually come. It became a matter of trust that more than just a handful would be there. In the end many people we re willing to take a day off wo rk and drive to Lansing to be part of the effort. The morning of October 5th dawned cloudy but people were psyched a nd ready. Upon arriving in Lansing a small

The Michigan State Capitol The rotunda is directly under the 267-foot dome. group paid a visit to Senato r Goschka's office and heard him address the Senate (on the inte rcom) while he introduced the bill! What a thrim The idea was now a bill a nd was finally in motion . It was so exciting to see dulcimers and othe r instruments carried into the capitol building. The final count was sixty-five musicians who gathered to play music on the glass floor of the rotunda in the Michigan capitol building.

he rotunda occupies the very center of the stately 1872 building and has a n "open ceiling" rising 160 fee t to the star-clad dome. Balconies of all the other floors encircle the area and allowed the music to be carried throughout the e ntire building. The House a nd Senate chambers each occupy o ne wing of the third floor. Each lawmaker had received an invitation to the event and, as the Houses adjourned for lunch, they came to hear the music and receive gifts furni shed by the Original Dulcimer Playe rs Club (ODPC). Each lawmake r was greeted by Gail and give n a dulcimer lapel pin, a booklet entitled Michigan Hammered Dulcimer, edited by Paul Gifford, and a list of seventeen reasons to pass the bill. Each dulcimer player had a sign affixed to the front of his or her dulcimer which bore the name of their city, Representative a nd Se nator. It was a very special sight to read the

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names of so many different communities and lawmakers from across the state. As the legislators arrived they searched the group looking for the sign that touted their name or community. The first tune played was the national anthem for the hammered dulcimer, "Golden Slippers." The sound was spectacular and filled the building. Senator Goschka arrived to inform the group that he had introduced the Bill 788 that morning. He received the 102 petitions, which bore 3600 names of people supporting the idea. Following the presentation, Judi Morningstar of White Lake started her beautiful waltz entitled "Michigan Saturday Night." It was a wonderful day for the dulcimer in Michigan. The musicians received a warm welcome from the observers. Some legiSlators came and stayed and stayed. One said she had never heard a better group and thought they should come back and play every day. It was difficult to know how many legislators attended, as some came onto the rotunda floor while others stayed above on the balconies watching and listening. The event was very well attended, and more than thirty-five booklets were distributed.

he oldest player there was 93-year-old Claise Sinclair of Sheridan. Claise and his brother Harley, now deceased, have played the dulcimer for decades and are very much part of the reason for the dulcimer's resurgence in popularity today. The Sinclair brothers began playi ng as young men and spent their teens and adult life playing for dances and parties across Michigan. They both played in the very recognizable old Michigan style and gave so enthusiastically to the world of dulcimers and folk music. Judi Morningstar, well-known Michigan composer and player, gave away several of her group's CDs in support of the dulcimer. A group of six ladies made the three-hour trip from Traverse City; two women, one of whom had won her dulcimer at Evart the previous year, came to join the festivities. The group represented a real cross-section of the dulcimer players and the heritage in Michigan. The dulcimer has a tradition that runs deep in Michigan. [Ed. Note: Paul Gifford's column, " Hammered Dulcimer Tales And Traditions" in Dulcimer Players News often teUs of the instrument in Michigan.] Ezra Durand and William Vogel built dulcimers from 1863 to 1866 in Chelsea and operated a dulcimer factory in Stonington, Connecticut from 1867 to 1869. During the 1850s a fiddle and dulcimer player often entertained travelers in inns located along the road from Lapeer and Pontiac. Henry Ford hired dulcimer player Edwin Baxter in 1925 to play in his dance orchestra. Baxter, who lived in Cheboygan County, had learned to play the dulcimer from his father while living in Michigan's northe rn woods. Ford's orchestra was very active and played for dances, house parties, dance classes and the State Fair. They made numerous recordings and were part of a semi-weekly radio show called "Early American Dance." Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, houses an extensive collection of ham-

A portion of the group performs in the rotunda. On display are Michigan flags that have been in battle.

mered dulcimers which began when Ford's agents purchased over twenty an tique dulcime rs in the 1920s. A group of men known as the "Michigan Lumberjacks" performed throughout Michigan from the 1930s to the 1950s. The group leader was E.C. Beck of Mt. Pleasant. The group relied on music from the lumber camps and e ntertained at a National Folk Festival. It is probably because of this group that the dulcimer picked up the name "Lumberjack's Piano."

e do know the dulcimer was present in the old lumber camps of Michigan. The boom in the white pine and the dulcimer coincided and music was very much a part of the life in lumber camps. We know of a John Weeks who not only was a blacksmith for lumbe r camps but also a dulcimer player and builder. Mr. John Brown of Charlevoix county, a center of lumbering activity, also built and played dulcimers in the 1870s. It was in the Muskegon River basin, a lumbering cente r, that Elgia Hickok was the organizing force for the ODPC in 1963. He, along with nearly fifty other dulcimer love rs formed the organization at Barryton. Another reason for the dulcimer's survival in Michigan is the tradition of passing it down from father to son. lfyou would like to support Bill 788 you can write to Senator Mike Goschka at Room 1010, Farnum Building, Lansing, MI 48913 or email senmgoschka@senate.state.mi.us. Gail Schwandt may be reached at 427 N. Line St., Chesaning, MI 48616 or Schwandt@Dulcimers.com. 0

{Ed Note: We just learned (thanks to Sam and Carrie Rizzetta) that eleven-year-old Nicole McComas from Hamlin, West Virginia, performed for a panel of state senators in Charleston on February 2nd The performance was part of Nicole's plan to make the Appalachian dulcimer West Virginia's official state instrument. We'll keep you posted.]

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The Art of Performing by Steve Schneider

" Can't (Walt tol Pertorm on My Dulcimer!" owever we define it, a performance brings us to our music in a fresh way. We become aware of details that we haven't noticed before, careful about technique that we might otherwise have let slip, involved in our interpretation as it will be heard through someone else's ears."-from Making Music for the Joy Of It, by Stephanie Judy. OK. You've been practicing to develop into the musician you are today. As you practice and become familiar with your scales, arpeggios, and exercises, music that was once difficult or impossible to play became manageable, even easy. As you became more fluent on the dulcimer, you actually changed, evolved. Your physical responses, timing, flexibility, poise, intuitive understanding of music, and control of the elements of music (rhythm, tempo, dynamics, etc.) become heightened, and the ways in which you hear and react to musical stimuli are different because of your practice. But this takes care of the purely musical training we need in order to play, and this is only one aspect of learning and playing music. What else there is for you to do really depends upon what you want to do with your music. 1 find that there are two distinct and interrelated levels of relating to music as a practice. Level one is purely personal, a lifelong striving to develop the skills necessary to become musically fluent, to understand music on a deep level, to challenge yourself to grow musically, to play instruments you love, and to train yourself to have the flexibility to express yourself musically in ways that are fulfilling. Level two deals with bringing the music out from your inner experience

and into the world-in my case through performing, recording, working as a music therapist, composing, writing about music, and teaching.

Level one, a personal journey or quest to satisfy an inner urge to live in the world of music, is satisfying, exciting, and fulfilling. For others, like myself, there's also a need to enter level two, to be heard and to share one's music. And, unfortunately, if a need goes unrecognized or unsatisfied, there is a constant urgency, a thirst and hunger, a longing, frustration, and the persistent feeling that something is missing. Most of us, however, have not received the same amount of (if any) training for level two as we have for level one. How have we trained to deal with the complex emotions that arise from playing in front of others? How many of our music teache rs have helped us to develop an understanding of the world of performing, to achieve a stage presence, to prepare for the rigors of presenting yourself in a musical context? 1 suspect that generally they're focused on learning skills that are directly related to the dulcimer (or whatever instrument you play), and this leaves a lot of room for trial and error, or the school of hard knocks (or, in our case, hard hammers or hard plucks). Not a bad school for some, but an unfortunate one for others who won't play in front of anyone, mostly because they don't have the resources to overcome the onslaught of feelings that often accompany performing.

a me, the worst part of this situation is that it keeps many wonderful musicians from playing in public, a loss both to us and to them. For most of us, American society no longer has a community-oriented music life. There isn't a natural place for us as there was when people gathered together and sang or played music. Nowadays we gather at festivals or we have to seek audiences or venues to play (and some people won't play without pay). We have to make it happen, create

and support, but these are usually limited to a community of musicians only, and they don't often satisfy the needs of individuals who want to perform. By now some of you are thinking, "I can't perform. 1 can't play in front of other people. My hands shake too much. I'm too nervous. I'm not good enough." These voices are the re to protect you from hurting yourself, and they should be appreciated as such. However, if the urge is there, you owe it to yourself to do what you need to in order to begin to perform. Each time you play your dulcimer in front of others, you change, and your music gets better. 1 would never say that it gets easy, but it does get easier. With awareness and action, sharing your music becomes more fulfilling, obstacles melt away, and fear becomes less debilitating. During a recent performance at a festival , 1 experienced shaky hands for the very first time. It came out of the blue, unexpected and for no apparent reason because I was neither nervous nor frightened . My music partner, Paul Oorts, was aware of it because he could sense a difference in my poise and my playing, but the audience never had a clue since 1 was able to consciously let it happen, to breathe, relax, and watch as the shakiness subsided. It was a personal victory which put the whole notion of

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into play. Because 1 had already practiced playing with shaking hands, and because 1 know to expect the unexpect-

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bOBgOBUn-st:one;y enD ed based on my previous performing experiences, this was not really a new experience for me, and 1 could treat it more objectively, as an interesting phenomenon rather than a debilitating and paralyzing threat that was beyond my control.

was lucky this time. My hands eventually did stop shaking-but I was prepared to play the rest of the concert in that condition, never

bringing it to the awareness of the audience, and not letting it overshadow the music. Next time it might be worse, but I'll be ready for and accept the challenge of dealing with it when it or anything else shows up again. So, if you have the desire to perform, get out there and make it happen. It's good for you and it's certainly good for your audience. Lydia Martin, a wonderful young musician and friend, writes in a letter about ber music experiences, "Performing is the best practice there

is! That element of stress fixes tunes in my mind like nothing else." But don't expect it to be easy, because it's not. Performing won't get any easier if you don't do it. Turn " I can't perform" into "I can't wait to perform on my dulcimer." And, whether or not you perform, please go easy on performers, give them encourageme nt, tell them what you liked about their performance, let them know if they've reached you in anyway. And offer constructive criticism when you think it's appropriate - but do it gently and carefully. As you know, it's not easy being on stage and facing the music. I'd appreciate feedback, too. Any comments about this or other articles, please contact me at PO Box 34, Congers, NY 10920, or email: HDPlayer@ aol.com. Stay in touch and stay in tune. 0

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Jigs, continued

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ecently, I came across a pair of jigs that I've certainly been enjoying . Actually, they're not two jigs, but two settings of the same tune. One is from Scotland; the other, from the Prince Edward Islands. This is the PEl version. Decades ago, I learned a tune called "Chorus Jig," which wasn't-a jig, that is. It is a reel. The 4/4 version I learned from an old Trapezoid recording and this PEl version are both variations on a Scottish jig with the same title. I've found that the rhythms used in this PEl "Chorus Jig" can be utilized in otber jigs. To my, admittedly, unschooled ear, it sounds a bit strathspey-ish in a 6/8 sort of way. After you've learned this version of "Chorus Jig," try the dotted-eighth, six-

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n the past few columns we've been taking a close look at strings, how they work and why they sometimes break. The plain string equations, given in Vol. 25, No.2, May-June 1999 of the DPN, were used to calculate the pitches at which strings will break and how to apply this information to string· ing and tuning fretted dulcimers. In the November-January 1999/2000 DPN, we considered some of the reasons why strings break, and thus, why we need some safety factor in calculating string lengths. Now we are ready for the challenge of designing dulcimers using the string equations. This issue I will run through the designing of a hammer dulcimer. The hammer dulcimer is a unique design situation in many ways, not the least of which is the influence of string lengths on tone. The dulcimer has metal strings of fixed pitch with a fixed length for each pitch. The strings are un-damped, once struck they are free to sound until the vibration decays naturally. (Even dulcimers with sophisticated dampers do not damp each individual note only after it is struck, as the piano does when the finger is lifted off the key.) So, an important task in designing the dulcimer is for the sustain and decay of the notes to sound agreeable with the music. In previous columns we have seen that string lengths of 50% to 70% of breaking strength are considered a good maximum for most stringed instruments. String lengths that are at high percentages of breaking strength produce long sustain. And although the sustaining echo of notes is a particular characteristic and charm of the dulcimer, too much sustain makes for music that is muddy and lacking in clarity and definition. Also, ideally we want an instrument that is balanced from low notes to high so we can use the

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ince high-pitched strings must be relatively short, and must be relatively small in diameter for reasons previously discussed, they have relatively low mass and short sustain. Sustain can be maximized, in part, by using as long a string length as practical. Let us design a dulcimer with a maximum scale length of 60% breaking strength. If we design a dulcimer with the string courses equidistant apart, which is desirable for maintaining good aim and feel while playing, and make all courses 60%, then the side bridges must be curved. See Figure 1. This curve is called a harmonic curve and is familiar in the shapes of the harp and the grand piano. Making a dulcimer with curved sides is complex and, it turns out, is not very desirable. The long, low-pitched strings have more mass and greater distance through which they can stretch and move, and have more sustain. Shortening the scale length for lower notes helps control sustain and improve the musicality of the dulcimer. So, a dulcimer with straight sides is both simpler and may improve important aspects of tone. It is interesting to note that dulcimers with curved sides have been built from time to time, but have never become popular. Much can be learned by going through the process of designing a dulcimer using the string equations. Since

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Figure 2. 12-11 dulcimer, treble courses

the strings are so important, we will design an instrument by first calculating the string vibrating lengths, or, scale lengthS. To do this we must establish the musical and physical parameters desired. Let us build a typical fifth-interval, 12-11 style dulcimer with twelve treble courses; lowest treble course being G#4-C#4; highest treble course being D6-G5. This issue we will plan the scale lengths of the treble courses only, see Figure 2. 10 make it easy to play, the space between adjacent treble courses will be 1.125" from the center of one course to the center of the next. To make our dulcimer a conveniently portable size the frame angles of the pin blocks will be 60 degrees at both sides, with a target over-

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all size of 40" o r less. It is helpful to draw out the dulcimer plan on a large sheet of paper or plywood, o r use a computer-aided design program. And to simplify o ur calcul at ions, we'll make all the strings 0.018" diameter steel music wire.

06 = 7.23' . (60%) 06 + GS = 18.08' C6 = 7.78' BS = 8.28' AS = 8.83'. (SO%) GS = 9.33'

know fro m experi ence that the highest course, the 0 6- 0 5 course, will be the closest to breaking st re ngth. If you choose diffe rent string spacings o r frame angles, a somewhat lowe r course may be closest to breaking strength. Be awa re of t his in your planning. We'll start with th e highest no te, 0 6, freq ue ncy 1174.64 cps., whi ch we want to be t he maximum 60% of breaking strength. Using th e procedures ou tli ned in th e previous Tech Columns on strings, solving th e string equ atio ns for length, L, at 60% breaking stre ngth gives us a vibrating le ngth of 7.23" fo r th e 0 6. It must be 7.23" from th e side bridge cap to the treble bridge cap. Since th e interval ac ross the bridge is 2 to 3, th e to tal vib rating le ngth of the 06-05 co urse is 7.23 divided by 2, multiplied by 5, equ als 18.08': To exp ress this as a n equ atio n, where the length from left side bridge to ri ght side b ridge is X:

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Bo th sides o f the treble course will be at the same tensio n, so we need no t calculate th e pe rce ntage o f breaking strength fo r both sides. Figure 3 shows the dulcimer layout with the lengths fo r the pitches o n the le ft side of the treble bridge. You may go a head and calculate the percentage of breaking strength for each, if yo u wis h. On this dulcimer all courses below 06 are less than 60% . AS, o n the left side of the t reble bridge, is about 50% . A ll courses below this AS are less th an 50% . However, a ll courses are above th e 50% breaking stre ngth fo r phospho r bro nze wire. 50% is a recommended safe max imum fo r phosphor bronze, so we will limit ourselves to steel wire only fo r these treble courses.

The lo ngest, lowest course, 0 # 4C# 4, is 32.58': If the side b ridges are extended to my usual placement for the frame edge of the dulcimer, 1.5" past the lowest course, the le ngth between side bridge ends is 34.08': I will add 2.25" at both sides fo r the pin blocks, giving us a total le ngth fo r th e completed dulcime r o f 38.58': This meets o ur target o f 40" o r less. In the next installment we will conside r the bass courses. Stay tuned !

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Dulcimers in Cyberspace by Tull Glazener

reetings from Cyberspace! This issue's column features a number of web sites sent in by other DPN internet surfers. Thanks much for the pointers, and keep those "virtual" cards and letters coming.

Personal Web Sites There are several new personal web sites with dulcimerrelated content. DPN columnist Neal Walters is a member of "Doofus," a quartet whose home page can be found at http://www.doofusmusic.com . Their site includes ordering information for their books and recordings, their tour schedule, and a " tab of the month" section featur ing mountain dulcimer a nd autoharp tab. Singer, songwriter, and mountain dulcimist Thomasina has a new home page found at http://thomasina.net. One of the unique features of her site is the ability to play selected cuts from her various recordings directly off her web page. Steve Eulberg is an accomplished performer on both mountain and hammered dulcimer. As an ordained Luthe ran pastor, he has used the music of both these instrume nts as an integral part of worship services, and has published several books and recordings. If you are interested in the "spirituality of the dulcimer," check out his web site at http://www.owl mntnmusic.com.

Maureen Sellers is a talented mountain dulcimer teache r and pe rformer, and one of the busiest on the festival circuit. You can check out her schedule as well as find ordering information for her books and recordings, by clicking at http://www.webpup.com/-jhagee/maureen.htm . David Schnaufer has been one of the best ambassadors of the mountain dulcimer for over twenty years, and has been referred to as the " ... Richard Thompson or Eric C1apton of the dulcimer." He was one of the first to bring the mountain dulcimer to the attention of the mainstream musical establishment, and continues to push the envelope of innovative playing, while preserving the dulcimer's traditional elements. David is one of the first dulcimer artists to offer his recordings in the " DAM CD" (Digital Automatic Music Compact Disc) format, which can be played with either standard home stereo equipment, or the new "mp3" internet format (go to http://mymp3.com for more information). Check out David's web site at http://www.mlapulse.com/dsdavids.html. Music Notation Software As the dulcimer-playing population grows, more and more of us want to be able to share our tunes/arrangements with others in the form of printed music and/or tablature. There a re a number of softwa re products avai lable that can help you produce "professional looking" sheet music and tablature, and most of them have web sites where you can download demo versions to " try before you buy." Here are

a couple of the most popular in dulcimer circles: http://www.musicease.com Music Ease htt p ://www.tabledit.com Table Edit Stringwalker http://users.deltanet.com/-alainv

SWeet Music Index I mentioned this terrific resource a few columns ago, and described it as the " mother of all mountain dulcimer web sites." It has recently moved to a new home, and is now being housed at Dwain Wilder's "Bear Meadow" site. The new URL for this resource is http://www.bearmeadow.com/smi Dulcimaniacs The "Dulcimaniacs" is an aptly named on-line discussion group of all things dulcimer and is part of the Yahoo web site. You can read the ongoing discussions by going to http://c1ubs.yahoo.com/c1ubs/dulcimaniacs. If you want to actively participate in the discussions, you'll have to register to become a member through Yahoo. But that is free, and you also get the added benefits all the rest of Yahoo's free services (including a free e-mail account). As always, keep in touch, and keep sending in your favorite internet resources to share with other DPN readers. You can also send along any comments, suggestions, questions, or answers to Tull Glazener (tull@falcon.iupui.edu). See you around the 'net! 0

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Grace Is Amazing· Debbie Porte r, Lyric's Mama Music, Rt. 6, Box 89B, Pittsburg, TX 75686, 1-877-856-2714 (CD/Cassette) . • Texan Debbie Porter's latest release is an inspirational album of thirteen gospel songs. She sings lead and plays standard and bass mountain dulcimer. The guests, with the exception of the marvelous Stephen Bennett, who plays standard, harp, slide, and National steel guitars and is featured on six cuts, appear on just one or two tracks each. They include D avid Schnaufer, Sue Carpenter and Steve Siefert on mountain dulcimer; Adie Grey and Shake Russell on vocals; Beth Shelton on flute and clarinet; Rick Roberts on violin; Maddie MacNeil on hammered dulcimer and vocals; Richard Porter on harmonica; Tom Pittman on banjo; Neal Walters on autoharp, bass and vocals;

Coleen Walte rs on vocals; and Ron Clinton on piano. In addition to Debbie's original title song, the titles include Wings of a Dove, Softly and Tenderly, His Hand in Mine, My Mother's Faith, and Poor Wayfaring Stranger.

SWinging the Gospel. Michael Shull, 412 Ermine Road, West Columbia, SC 29170, 803-796-2559 (CD/Cassette) . • Michael Shull, last year's third-place winner at Winfield, has just released his second album. This one, like his debut recording, is an all-instrumental album of mountain dulcimer arrangements of traditional gospel material. In addition to mountain dulcimer, Michael also plays hamme red dulcimer and guitar and is joined by Joel Shull on keyboard, strings, and wooden flute; Dennis Steele on guitar and bass; Danny Harlow on fiddle; Andrew Gowan on flute and clarinet; and Randy Lucas on banjo. Tunes include Down by the Riverside, Shall We Gather at the River, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, and Morning H as Broken.

Random Acts of Fiddling· Carole and Teresa Lundgren, Owl Mountain Music, 1015 M S. Taft Hill Rd., RD #144, Fort Collins, CO 80521 (CD/Cassette) .• Violinists and sisters, Carole and Teresa, ages 16 and 12, have been performing as a duo for over four yea rs. They are classically trained but love to fiddle . On this, their debut recording, they are backed by Steve Eulberg, who adds hammered dulcimer, bodhran, guitar, bass, and mountain dulcimer, and Eddy Miller on bagpipes. The recording samples old-time, Celtic, Bluegrass, swing, and Ukrainian music and there a re two cuts that feature simply fiddle and mountain dulcimer. Tunes include Bonaparte's Retreat, Captain Campbell/ Rakes of Kildare, and Orange Blossom Special. Band Call· Golden Griffon Stringtet, 31001 Dolly Circle, Romulus, MI 48174-9714, 734-753-TUNE (CD Only). • The Golden Griffon Stringtet plays music generally classified as dance

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music-square and contra tunes. Their repertoire includes traditional jigs, reels, waltzes and airs from Irish, French-Canadian, New England and Southern/Old Time traditions. They also feature contemporary da nce tunes written in a traditional style and are pleased to corrupt a few contemporary pop melodies into contra dances tunes. The band's core members are Loretta McKinney on hammered dulcimer and Jim McKinney on fiddl e and guitar. Tunes include Knole Park/Parry Sound Reel/Angleworm Wiggle, and Mason's Apron/U nknown Reel/D ick Gossip's Reel.

Come Dance and Sing· CeltibilJies, 3708 Old Town Rd., Shawsville, VA 24162, 540-268-1165 (CD/Casse tte) .• The CeltibilJies, as their name suggests, mix Celtic music with old-time tunes to form a sort of hot Appalachian Celtic fusion dance band. Becky Barlow is featured on hammered dulcime r, keyboard, bodhran, bass, egg, and vocals;

Jack Hinshelwood is on guitar, fiddl e and vocals; Tim Sauls is on banjo, bouzouki, guitar and vocals; and Bob Thomas and Patrick Turne r play the bass. Bob also plays bodhran and contributes vocally. Titles include June Apple/Kitchen Gal, Kerry Dancing, and Follow the Drinking Gourd.

He Didn't Dance' Cueanandy, Milky Way Music, 235 Murdock Ave, Asheville, NC 28804, 828-253-6624 (CD/Cassette). • The North Carolina-based Celtic trio, Cucanandy, has released their first album, which blends tradition-based songs, tunes and percussive dance rhythms from Ireland, Cape Breton, Brittany and the American South . In addition to Mike Casey's Irish Hute, guitar, and 5-string lap dulcimer, the band features Malke Rosenfeld on step dance and Hatfooting, Irish Hute, whistles, and bodhran and Stephanie Johnson on vocals, guitar and bodhran. Fiddle r Jason Cade also guests. There's not a lot of dulcimer on this recording but it

is Celtic music at its best, which is what we might expect given Mike's previous recordings. Tunes include: The Milky Way Set, Caillin Rua, Breton An Dros, and The Road to Ballinakill Set.

Old Time Gospel Favorites' Kathy Leigh Johnson Arnold, Sampler Records, PO Box 19270, Rocheste r, NY, 800-5372755 (CD/Cassette) .• Kathy Leigh Johnson Arnold is well known as a great singer in her hometown of Louisville, KY. She's joined by Tom Arnold on guitar and vocals; Glenn McClure on bass and guitar; Molly Freibert and Janey Robertson on mountain dulcimers; Glennda Dove on flute; Kinloch Nelson on guitar; Roxanne Ziegler on harp; Mitzie Collins on hammered dulcimer, pump organ and piano; and several more voices on backup vocals in a program of old-time gospel favo rites. Songs include I'll Fly Away, Precious Lord, and Life Is like a Mountain Railway.

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Ballads Thrice twisted. Margaret MacArthur, Box 15, Marlboro, VT 05344,802-254-2549 margmac@ sover.ne t (CD/Cassette) . • This is a collectio n of seventeen wonde rful old stori es in song performed by Margaret MacArthur, o ne of Vermont's foremost dulcim er players and folk musicians. Many of th ese ballads came from th e British Islt:s and were preserved by traditional si nge rs in remo te parts of New E ngland . Ten are accompa nied by mountain dulcime r; two are accompanied by harp-zithe r; and several include a MacArthur family chorus. Includes Streets of Derl)', Rummy Crocodile, Braes of Yarrow, and Lady Isabel.

Pack Up Your Sorrows- The Best 01 Mimi and Richard Farina· Vanguard Reco rd s, 2700 Pennsylvania Avenue/ Santa Monica, CA 90404-4000 (CD/Cassette) . • This new Mimi and Richard Farina re trospective is one that yo u sho uld no t ignore. I know yo u will enj oy the mixture o f superb mountain dulcimer playing and wonderfu l si ngi ng that marked the Farina's short time together.

No Regrets- The Very Best 01 Tom Rush. Tom Rush, Sony/Columbia Records, 550 Madison Avenue/ New York, NY 10022-32l1 (CD/Cassette) .• Just a mention that o ne of my all-time favorite folk perfo rmers has put o ut a retrospective CD that includes a great many of my personal favorites. For those of you

Hanging Out with the North Harris County DulCimer Society· Terl)' McCafferty, 135 Wilkins Crossing, Sugarland, TX 77479, 281-565-2300 (Cassette) . • The North H arris Cou nty Dulcimer Society has produced a professional-sounding tape that showcases several club members. They include Larl)' Barringer on moun-

lame nting the dearth of dulcimer playing on major labe ls, one cut, Merrimack County, which was originally recorded in the 1970's, features ace sideman, Trevor Veitch, playing so me nice mou ntain dulcimer.

lain dulcimer, harmonica, and jawharp; Sylvia Barringer on mountain dulcimer and autoharp; Peggy Carter on mountain and hammered dulci mer and spoons; Sally Fidler on mountain du lcimer, hammered d ulcimer and spoo ns; Janice H atten o n mountain dulcimer, aut oharp, and pickin' stick; Gene Hatte n o n auto harp ; Steve H eise r o n mountain dulcimer, mandolin and guitar; Scott Odena on mountain dulcimer, guitar, banjo and mandolin ; and Carl Scott on mountain dulcimer, mandolin, au toharp, and harmo nica. Tunes includ e Bile the Cabbage, Whiskey Before Breakfast, and Jessica Waltz. Cheat River Waltz. Neal Walters, Doofus Music, 9507 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901 , 301 -587-6652, http://doofusmusic.com (Tab Booklet). • With help from Heidi Cerrigio ne and o ther members of Doofus, Neal has published a tab arrangeme nt in booklet form of his "Cheat River Waltz." Seve n separate arrange ments, o ne each fo r 4-

Walkin' 7lroundBuck'!! Robert & Janita Baker with

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Watkin' Around Lucky. Robert and Janita Baker, Blue Lion, 10650 Little Quail Lane, Santa Margarita, CA 93453, 805438-5569 (CD/Cassette). • Bob and J anita Baker, perhaps best known as the proprietors of the Blue Lion Dulcimer Company, have a nice new recording of fifteen tunes that primarily feature Bob's guitar and vocals. He receives a lot of help from Janita on mountain dulcimer (she does a sparkling job on Spanish Fandango), and from Maddie MacNeil on vocals, Howie Bursen on banjo, Jean Sutton on vocals, Kelly Powers on fiddle, and Karen Mueller on autoharp. limes include Walkin' Around Lucky, Hobo's Lullaby, and Waltz Across Texas.

Born In the Air • Various Artists, Acoustic Breath Vol II, Tango Records (CD). • This compilation is from Japan and features a number of instrumentalists, principally guitarists. Dulcimer is featured on one cut as Larry Conger plays his own "September on the Missisippi," with guitar accompaniment by Noriyuki Horiuchi. The CD does not have any address on it, but is available through Larry at PO Box 131, Paris, TN 38242,901-642-6100, TNDulciman @aol.com. 0

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Backyard Music. .. . ....... . ........... 44 Blue Lio n Musica l Instruments .... . . ..... 39 Burl Updyke .......................... 49 David's Dulcimers ...................... 41 Dusty Strings ....... . ........ , .. Back cover Elk River Dulcimer Music .. Inside back cover Folkcraft Instruments ..... . ..... , .... 25, 49 Glad Morning AUlo harps ................. 3 G reibhaus Instruments ....... , .......... 25 Hampton Music Shop .. . .......... , ..... 25 High Cou ntry Dulcimers . Inside & back cover H obgoblin-Stoney End .................. 39 Jeremy Seeger Dulcimers ................ 24 John Kovac ................. .• •. .. ..... 35 June Apple Instrum ents ...... , .•........ 44 Keith Young . ................ , ......... 28 Luthierwoods.com ...................... 21 McSpadden Musical Instruments ......... 47 Ron Ewing Dulcimers ................... 45 Simerman Dulcimers .. ..... Inside back cover Songbird Dulcimers ............. , ...... 34 Taylor Made Dulcimers . . . ............. 46 TK O'Bricn's " ............ • .. ,',., .... 50 Whamdiddle .............• . ........... 35 Wood' N Strings ..................... Insert

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Festivals Augusta Heritage Cente r ............. . ... 4 Chalter Creek Hamme red Dulcimer Festival 19 Claremon t Spring Fo Lk Festival ............ 5 Commo n Ground o n the Hill ............. 12 Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering ........... 16 Dulcimer Rendezvous .................... 6 Gathering at Spring Mill .................. 6 Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festival ...... . . 13 Great American Dulcimer Conventio n .... 16 Great River Road Festival ... , ........... 18 Heartland Dulcimer Camp ............ . .. 17 Ho usato nic Dulcimer Festival ..... . ... ... 19 Ke ntucky Music Week .................. 15 Meadowlark Music Camp ............... 17 Moons & Tunes ........................ 18 Northeast Dulcimer Symposium ........... 7 Ozark Folk Cente r ................ . ..... 9 Prairie Dulcimer Club ................... 10

SAM Fest ........... . ....... • ......... 15 Sawdust Dulcimer Festival ........... .Insert

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Unc/assifieds Unclassified ads are 45Â˘ per word, payable in advance. There is a 20% discount tor pre-paid (4 issues) unclassified ads running unchanged in 4 or more consecutive issues. Unique business opportunity. After creating and selling more than 40,000 mountain dulcimers over the past 38 years, we will be retiring within the next two years. Our well-established and respected business is available for sale to someone who would like to carry on the tradition of high quality and affordable prices we have developed. If you are seriously interested, contact us for details and options by postal mail (HC 72, Box 66, Mountain View, AR 72560); by phone (after 5:30 p.m. central time, 870-269-3958); or by email: Lmcmcspadden@ mvtel.net. Chinese Hog BrIstle Dusters. Over 4" static free bristles set in a hand turned hardwood handle. Ideal for hammered dulcimers and other stringed instruments, computer keyboards, and any delicate items. $15 plus $1 shipping. Special 6 for $75 with free shipping. Cliff's Custom Crafts, 43 York St., Bay City, MI 48708. 517-892-4672. Finely DesIgned Hand-Crafted Folk 1bys. Limber Jack, Dog, Pony,

Bear, Frog, Rooster, Lamb, Unicorn and Dinosaur. $12.95 each includes shipping. Jean's Dulcimer Shop, P.O. Box 8, Cosby, TN 37722. New Albwn: Pass'd Times; Popular Music Of The Revolutionary Era. 50 tunes, all the music in the new Kitchen Musician #16, CD only, with Sara and Maynard Johnson and The Rogues' Consort, with hammer dulcimer, cittems, guitar, fiddles, kit, harp, recorders, etc. $15.oo.1C1tcben MusIcian Books: # 16 Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuets and Duets, Later 18th Century, 20 pages, 50 tunes, from 18th century personal copybooks. Dance, Irish, Scottish, Carolan tunes, many still popular today, $8.00. #15 Music of the Ohio River Frontier 1788-1825, 16 pages, 39 tunes, $5.00. #14 Songs, Airs & Dances of the 18th Century from Playford, Baroque recorder pieces, etc. 20 pages, 36 tunes, many with parts for other instruments $8.00. For Singers: #17 New Voice of Psalmody, a hymnal of SATB hymns sung by English

colonists in 18th century America, 27 hymns, $12.00. Learning series: Square One #1 Hammer Dulcimer for Absolute Beginners, 16 page method book at very basic level. Simple exercises for hammer control, pattern playing, octave patterns, duplicate notes, $5.00. Square One #2 Exercises for Hammer Dulcimer (Playing Patterns). Exercises to develop visual skills, muscle memory, strengthen weak hand, $5.00. Shipping $1.00 one item, 40 cents each additional. Sara Johnson, 449 Hidden Valley Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45215.513761-7585. E-mail: kitchiegal@ aol.com. For sale: Ooud Nine 15/16 hammered dulcimer with stand & soft case. 920-261-8186.

Folk Notes Dulcimers, 2329 Curdes Ave., Fort Wayne, IN 46805. We carry Hudson, Songbird, and Dusty Strings hammered dulcimers. A great selection of quality mountain dulcimers: McSpadden, Simerman, Folkcraft, Jeff Gaynor, North Country, Chittum, Black Rose, Folkroots, Lyttle Folk, and Folk Notes. Also, folk harps, Native American flutes, bodhrans, tinwhistles, Irish flutes, folk & mountain banjos, auto harps, psalteries, and more. Mountain dulcimer and autoharp lessons, teachers available for hammered dulcimer and harp. Open Monday-Friday & Saturday AM. Please call to avoid conflicts with scheduled lessons. We ship worldwide. 219-484-9078. www.folknotes.com. Acclabned WorId's FInest! Glenn family handmade instruments. Known for their fine musical quality and craftsmanship. Traditional dulcimers and banjos. Selling since 1952. One hundred year family tradition. Send for free color brochure. To hear instrument being played, send $11 for cassette. For "It Still Lives" album including Leonard & Oifford Glenn duets and booklet, send $15. To receive a seventy song traditional mountain dulcimer instruction book, send $11. For accompanying tape, send $11. Everything postpaid and guaranteed! Send check, money order or Visa to: Lisa Glenn Thompson, PO Box 158, Sugar Grove, NC 28679. 828-297-3028. Fax: 828-2979566.

Har.I.IeI" DulcImer Book/VIdeoI Cassette. For beginning to intermediate hammered dulcimer players. 1Wenty-five tunes and arrangements. Also, book/video/ cassette for mountain dulcimer. Mel Bay Publications by Madeline MacNeil. Book: $10.00; Video: $30.00; Cassettes: $10.00. Shipping: $2.50 (1 item), .50 for each add. item. P.O. Box 2164, Winchester, VA 22604. 540-678-1305. E-mail: dpn@dpnews.com. Visa/MC. DuIcIna' Players News back issues special 4 for $12 ppd: Vol. 24, No.1, 2, 3, 4. Vol. 25, No.1, 2, 3,4. Recent back issues $6 each. Dulcimer Players News, P.O. Box 2164, Winchester, VA 22604. 540-678-1305. E-mail: dpn@dpnews.com. Visa/MC. Sharing songs since 1950, SIng Out! The Folk Song MagazIne continues to cover the broadly defined world of traditional and contemporary folk music. Each 2oo-page issue includes articles, news, tons of reviews, festival and camp listings, instrumental "teach-ins" and complete lead sheets for twenty songs. Subscribing Membership: $22 (1 yr.) $40 (2 yrs.) $54 (3 yrs.); Basic Membership: $30 (1 yr.) $56.50 (2 yrs.) $81 (3 yrs.); Sustaining Membership: $50 or $100 per year. Sing Out!, Box 5253-D, Bethlehem, PA 18015-0253. www.singout.org. Job opening at Wood NStrings/ Masterworks. Have your cake and eat it, too! Want a job you will love? Seeking a friendly, detail oriented hammer dulcimer player for a long term position in our central office in Arlington, TX (Dallas/Ft. Worth). Should be able to demonstrate the dulcimer and answer questions for dulcimer players and potential dulcimer players. Daily duties include taking phone and store wholesale/retail orders and invoicing/shipping those orders as well as basic receptionist duties. Benefits available. Wood N StringslMasterworks is a Christian based hammer dulcimer business with wholesale and retail accounts across the nation. To reply, send resume by email to dulcimer@ woodnstrings.com or call 817-472-6991. The Bowed Psaltery instruction And Song Book, by Jean Schilling. Beginners' playing instructions, care of the psaltery and bow, tuning, string replacement, and seventy-six songs, with chordsAmerican, English, Scottish, and Irish favorites, hymns, carols, and O'Carolan tunes. $12.95 postpaid from Crying Creek Publishers, P.O. Box 8, Cosby, TN 37722.

Student Model DuIcfmers.. All wood construction. Three strings with 61/2 fret. $55 plus $5 shipping. Quantity discounts available. I also build performance model instruments. Call or write for more information. Jim Fox, 723 W. Grissom Ave., Mitchell, In, 47446. 812849-6667. Autobarp Quarterly, the international magazine dedicated to the autoharp enthusiast. Subscriptions: US-$20, Canada-$22, Europe-$24, Asia/South Pacific-$26. US currency, please. Stonehill Productions, PO Box 336, New Manchester, WV 26056-0336. aharper@ weir.net, www.fmp.com/aq

Instrument BuIlders: Our respected quarterly journal American Lutherie is entirely devoted to building and repairing dulcimers, guitars, mandolins, lutes, violins, and other string instruments. We also have instrument plans including a hammer dulcimer. Write for complete info, or send $39 for membership. GAL,8222 S. Park, Thcoma, WA 98408. www.1uth.org. Intennedlate/Advanced Players. Exclusive & intensive week-long hammered dulcimer workshop with Steve Schneider in July, 2000. Covering musicality, arranging, backup, performance, new repertoire, and your particular needs. Individual and group lessons in exquisitely beautiful setting near Sault Ste. Marie in southern Ontario. For inquiries call 914-268-7102, or email HDPlayer@aol.com.

Wonderful PrIces at Wl1dwood MusIc. We have over 600 new acoustic instruments in stock. Mountain and hammered dulcimers by Chittum, Beachy, Hill Country, Jeff Gaynor, Blue Lion, Masterworks, Lost Valley, Chris Foss, Michael Allen, McSpadden, and Dusty Strings. Books, tapes, CDs, and accessories. Wildwood Music, Historic Roscoe Village, Coshocton, OH 43812.614-622-4224. www.wildwoodmusic.com. Chub.doms. Large chromatic hammered dulcimer with pedals. New and reconditioned. Various prices. Alex Udvary, 2115 W. Warner, Chicago, IL 60618. www.cimbalom-master.com. CUstom AppaIacIdan Dulcbners. Standard, baritone, and bass dulcimers made to order. Choice of 25" or 28-1/2" string length on standard dulcimers. Baritone and bass dulcimers have a 28-1/2" string length. Send for brochure. John Stockard, 3686 Sussex Drive, Milledgeville, GA 31061. 912-452-5713. E-mail: jstockard@ geocities.com.

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