2001-03, Dulcimer Players News Vol. 27 No. 3 by Dulcimer Players News

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Contents

Networking

Letters To Us

Bits & Pieces

News & Notes

Dulcimer Clubs

Events

Musical Reviews· Neal Walters

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Technical Dulcimer· Sam Rizzetta

Madeline MacNeil, Publisher/Editor Tabby Finch, Editorial Assistant Post Office Box 2164 Winchester, Virginia 22604

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2001 : A Dulcimer's Odyssey· John French'"

Sakura (Cherry Blossom) • Yoko Aoki

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Interview: Heidi Muller· John Blosser ~ Jackalope

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Jig· Heidi Muller

I Want My MDTV! • Jeanne Page Sakura • Arranged Yoko Aoki

Columnists Technical Dulcimer' Sam R1zzetta Hammer Dulcimer' Unda lowe Thompson Mountain Dulcimer History · Ralph Lee SmHh Hammered Dulcimer History · Paul Gifford What's New/Musical Reviews Neal waHers

Appalachian Dulcimer· Karl Sebree

The Art of Performing· Steve Schneider

Eurotunes • David Moore

Hammered Dulcimer· Linda Lowe Thompson

Dulcimers in Cyberspace ' Tull Glazener

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Lullaby for Baby Squirrels· Rebecca Aske

The Art of Performing' Steve Schneider Profiles Rosamond Campbell

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What's New· Neal Walters Advertiser Index Unclassifieds

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Dear DPN: I felt I had to write and tell you how very excited I am about an ad I found in Dulcimer Players News. My parents play piano, and hammered and mountain dulcimers. My sis· ters play the harp, piano, psaltery, and violin. I have been playing mountain dulcimer for about three years and love it, but was frustrated with having to change keys for different tunes. Also, I wanted to play classical, blues, showtunes, etc. that have accidentals or aren't available in dulcimer tab. My dulcimer has a 6-1/2 fret, but I was not aware that there could be more half-step frets. Then I saw Merv Rowley's ad about a chromatic mountain dulcimer. I ordered both of his books, Leaves of Yesterday and A Dulcimer For All SeaSOilS. They're wonderful! I took the plunge and had more half-step frets added to my dulcimer. Now, with Merv's chord encyclopedia, I am busy tabbing and learning to play so many favorite tunes. This has opened a whole world of music for me! Jane E 7ilnner, Huntingburg, Indiana 0

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I would appreciate your advice. I have a lith grade grandson who is left-handed and is interested in learning to play the mountain dulcimer. Should I have him learn right-handed or should we reverse the bass and melody strings and turn the instrument around for him to play? He tried it one day (normal way) and seemed to have a little trouble getting the right hand to strum properly. Perhaps it will just take getting used to the idea. I would like your opinion on what to do. Ruth Ann Hackbart Some fine guitar players I know are left-handed folks who play right-handed. The left hand is doing all of the hardest moves! I'm sure there are dulcimer players out there who do the same thing; I just can't think of anyone off the top of my head. Of course, there are fine guitarists and dulcimer players who have reversed the strings and playing position, so this is definitely a subjective issue. My suggestion is that your grandson give the typical dulcimer playing style a chance first. It could be that the mirror image effect is too difficult and discouraging; then reversing the strings would be in order. If he generally seems to be a bit ambidexterous he'll probably get used to the right-handed strum fairly quickly. The thing is, I suppose, not to force the issue to the point where he'd lose interest. Maddie MacNeil 0

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Dulcimer Clubs years and am looking for others to get togethe r with on a semi-regular basis. The Toronto Area Dulcime r Club is about to be born. If you' re interested, please call me at 905-836-1020.

Peter Nemeth, Newmarket, Ontario The Renaissance Strings are a gro up of mountain dulcimer players from the Kingsport Senior Center in Kingsport, Tennessee. Jan Fenelon teaches dulcimer there and each month the Renaissance Strings perform at nursing and assisted-living homes in the area. Set lists become stories, authored by Jan, in themselves. Here is an example from May's outings.

May's Song Ust Ah, many were the 1. "Wildwood Flowers" picked by 2. "Nelly Bly" as she ran to greet the 3. "Boatman" when he came to shore. It's such a sad story, for he left her standing alone and went off on the 4. "New River Train" bound for travels alone. She remained at the train station with thoughts of him in her heart. With tears in her eyes, she called out 5. "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes." But he didn't return, for he had found that 6. "Spanish is a Loving Tongue." When Nelly heard of this, she grew angry and youil better believe that 1 "The Storms are on the Ocean" when a lady gets jilted She told her friend 8. "Sweet Betsy From Pike" to get on her 9. "Spotted Pony" and go to find her man even if he was now a 10. "Cowboy Waltzing" or if he was in the Il "Country Gardens." She didn't care where he was, for her 12. "Heartbeat" only when he was near. Without him she wasn't sure sheil ever be 13. "Where the Soul Never Dies" or ever believe that 14. "Where The Roses Never Fade" is where the 15. "Wildwood Flowers" grow forever and she could once more pick them to bring them to a lost love.

The Birth of a Hammered Dulcimer Club The Dusty Desert Dulcime r Friends was born in the fall of 2000. When I first moved from Illinois to Phoenix, Arizona in 1998, I became an orphan dulcimer player. Although just an advanced beginne r, I depended upon festiva ls to listen, learn, and make fri ends. There were many opportunities in Illinois, but when I moved to Phoenix, there was nothing. I searched Dulcimer Players News for clubs, festivals, and workshops and came up empty-handed. Then I saw the announcement for the "First Annual Southwest Dulcimer Festival." Robert Force's review in the May-July issue of DPN described the fine job Anna Duff did in creating a n experience many of us will never forget. After the festival, Anna put together a mailing list of attendees and sent me a copy. Finally, I had a base for finding hammered dulcimer players in the Phoenix area. I phoned and e-mai led all those hammered dulcimer playe rs who participated in the festival, inquiring whether they were interested in forming a club. I had a very good response and we had our first meeting at my house in the fall of last year. Six advanced beginners like me attended our first meeting. They ranged in age from retirees to Ashley Cox, our twelve-year-old and one of our best players. Ashley is the one who selected our name -Dusty Desert Dulcimer Friends. Since this first meeting, we have been playing together once a month. Our numbers have grown to ten and we look forwa rd to continued growth. Several of our members are "snowbirds,"who

Calling all Toronto area hammered dulcimer players! Dulcimer players are few and far betw'cen around here, but

surely the largest city in Canada must have have some. I've been playing the hammered dulcime r for a couple of

spend the winter in Arizona and return home in the summer. These are very valuable members, hailing from Michigan and bringing the experience of many years at the Dulcimer Funfest in Evart. In February we were fortunate to

sponsor a workshop on two successive Saturdays with Ke ndra Ward and Bob Bence. Debbie Ke nny arranged the workshop, held at her pare nts' house atop a mountain in Phoenix wi th a magnificent view of the city. A beaut iful location for a dulcimer workshop! By the time this appears in DPN, we will have atte nded the Second Annual Southwest Dulcime r Festival. We're looki ng forward to playing better, still making more friends, and seeing our membership increase. Any input from other clubs that will e nable our club to grow is greatly appreciated.

Gary Marmer gjmarmer@mad.scientist.com 480-515-0933 New Dulcimer Clubs California Central California Hammer Hands Brenda Hunter 2000 Majesty Palm Street Bakersfield, CA 93312 661-587-9577' brendaj @datacourse.com 1st Sundays HD Mississippi Pearly Gates Dulcimer Club Roger Guth 359 Pearly Gates Road Tremont, MS 38876 622-652-3680 • 1st & 3rd Thursdays Ohio Knox County Folk Strings John Hollingsworth 32 Green Valley Court Howard, OH 43028 740-392-5916 • jholling@knox.net 2nd Thursdays MD, HD Wood County Dulcimers Pauline Mille r 19336 W. River Road Bowling Green, OH 43402 41 9-823-66 11 • plmiller@wcnet.org Thursdays MD

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Fort New Salem, Salem University, Salem WV 26426. 304-782-5245. www.salemiu.edu .

August 4 • Santa Cruz, CA Redwoods Dulcimer Festival. MD workshops. Info: Janet Herman, 205 Jackson St., Santa Cruz CA 95060, 831-429-169l. jlherman@ix.netcom.com.

August 5 • Lake ZUrich, IL Lake County Folk Festival. Five stages, including a dulcimer stage. Workshops and jamming. Info : Kate Moretti, PO Box 113, Lake Zurich IL 60047. 847-540-5527. KMoretti@aol.com.

August 12 • Denver, CD Hammered Dulcimer Competition, at Highlands Ranch. Info: Star Edwards, PO Box 18464, Denver CO 80218. 303-831-1744. star@starharp.com.

August 12-18. Brasstown, NC Building & Playing a Mountain DulCimer. Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, Brass town, NC 28902 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.org.

August 6-9 • Mt. View, AR Sunwner HD Workshop at the Ozark Folk

August 17-19 • near Salem, DR

Center. Beginning and intermediate leve ls. Classes, jams, concerts. Info: Ozark Folk Center, PO Box 500, Mountain View AR 72560. 870-269-385l. www.ozarkfolkcenter.com.

Park .. MD, but othe r instruments welcome. Workshops, concert. Info: Lance Frodsham, 3103 SE Briarwood Dr., Vancouver WA 98683. 360-254-3737; frodsham@e-z.net .

August 11-12 • Salem, WV Dulcimer Weekend at Fort New Salem.

August 17-19 • Mt. Laguna CA Gathering at Mt. Laguna. Workshops for

Workshops (MD, HD), concert, and jamming. Info: Carol Schweiker,

dulcimer, harp, guitar, bowed psaltery, and more. Concert Saturday night.

Kindred Gathering at Silver Falls State

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Info : Susan Raimond, PO Box 213, Mt. Laguna CA 91948. 619-473-1213.

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September 7-9. Shepherdstown, WV Upper Potomac Dulcimer Festival. Workshops, classes, concerts, jam .sessions for all levels of HD players. Info: Joanie Blanton, PO Box 1474, Shepherdstown WV 25443.304-263-2531. blanton@intrepid.net.

August 19-24· Abingdon VA MD Playing (Elderhostel~ Lap dulcimer playing skills for beginner and advanced beginner. Info: Jeff Sebens, 10 Concord Rd, Meadows of Dan, VA 24120. 877426-8056 or www.meadows-music.com.

August 24-26· Midland, MI Midland Dulcimer Festival at Midland Fairgrounds. (lID, MD) Jamming, workshops, concerts. Info: Bill Kuhlman, 2769 S. Homer Rd., Midland MI 48640.517835-5085. beeps@concentric.net.

August 19-25. Washington, ME Meadowlark Music Camp features classes (MD, HD and other folk instruments), concerts, and jamming. Info: Jerry Bryant, 25 Columbia Dr., Amherst MA 01002. 413-256-6606. paulsmiths.edu/-stagerj/ meadowlark.html.

August 24- 26 • Grafton, IL Great River Road Festival. Concerts, workshops (MD, HD), State contests for MD, HD, open stage, vendors. Info: Johanna Nicholas, 314-863-8807. www.angelfire.com/iVgateway.

August 24-26 • Grafton, IL Great River Road Festival. Concerts, workshops (MD, HD), State contests for MD, HD, open stage, vendors. Info: Johanna Nicholas, 314-863-8807. www.angelfire.com/iVgateway.

Aug 27-Sept 2· 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. www.ntcma.com.

September 7-9. Meadows of Dan, VA Mountain Dulcimer Retreat for advanced beginners. Info: Jeff Sebens, 10 Concord Road, Meadows of Dan, VA 24120. 540-755-3808. www.meadows-music.com.

September 1 • Metamora, IN Metamora Music Day. Workshops (HD, MD, fiddle, vocal, more), performances, jamming, evening concert. Info: 765647-3298.

September 8 • Winfield, KS Winfield Warm-Up Picnic, sponsored by the Great Plains Dulcimer Alliance. Acoustic music: Workshops, jamming, picnic, evening concerts and open mike.

August 24-26· 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@sover.net.

September 7-9 • Cooksburg, PA Cook Forest Dulcimer and Folk Music Gathering. Workshops, concerts, jamming for HD, MD and other folk instruments. Info: Kris Stiglitz, Clarion Univ. Division Continuing Ed., Clarion, PA 16214. 814-393-2227. www.personal.psu.edu/ lrl/festival.

30th Walnut Valley Festival Septennber13,14,15,16,2001 Winfield, Kansas TommyEmmanuel Tom Chapin with Michael Mark Byron Berline Band Laurie Lewis Marley's Ghost Misty River Don Edwards Sons of the San Joaquin Jim Hurst & Missy Raines Spontaneous Combustion RedWine

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Carlo Aonzo Stephen Bennett David Mallett Fragment Pat Kirtley Small Potatoes

Mark Schatz & Friends Aileen & Elkin Thomas Cathy Barton & Dave Para Pete Huttlinger Michael Chapdelaine The Hickory Project PnrlrieRoseWran~ea

Pagosa Hot Strings Gallier Brothers Kelly & Diana Werts Shenanigans

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Summer 2001 • 9 Info: Mike Huddleson, 6622 W. 35th St. So., Wichita KS 67215. 316-524-0997. September 8 • Dothan, AL Dulcimer Day at Landmark Park. Workshops, jam sessions, sales booths, artist showcases, open stage. Info: Rhonda Harrison, Landmark Park, PO Box 6362, Dothan AL 36302. 334-794-3452. www.landmarkpark.com. September 13-16 • Winfield, KS Walnut Valley Festival. National contests for hammered and mountain dulcimers and other instruments. Works hops, concerts, all-night jams, arts & crafts fa ir. Info : Bob Redford, PO Box 245, Winfield KS 67156. 316-221-3250. www.wvfest. com .

September 14-16 • Lancaster, DH Hannony Harvest Campout. Workshops (MD, HD, tin whistle, guitar, autoharp, others), jamming, potluck di nner, open stage. Info: Michael Oliver, 152 East Fair Ave., Lancaster OH 43130-1801. 740-653-0917, lowerlights74@hotmail .com.

September 14- 16 • Gulf Shores, AL Jubilee Fest. Workshops, jamming, open stage, crafts, vendors, camping! cabins and food concessions available. Info : Stan Hodgin, 334-990-8895, StanandAna@aol.com. Reservations: 800-252-7275 (Press 32).

September 22 • Dana Point, CA Harvest Festival of Dulcimers, Workshops, concerts, and jamming (HD, MD). Info: So. California Dulcimer Heritage, PO Box 927926, San Diego CA 92192. 949-646-1964. www.scdh.org.

September 16 • Huntsville, AL Mountain Dulcimer Festival. Performances, jam sessions, and sales booths at Burritt Museum and Park. Info : Bob Johnson, 10314 Essex Drive, SW, Huntsville AL 35803. 256-880-2732. wb4nlj@hiwaay.net. September 16 • Fairmont, WV West Virginia Mountaineer Dulcimer Club Fall Meeting. Jamming, pot luck lunch, open stage (HD, MD). Info: Patty Looman, l345 Bitonti St., Star City WV 26505 . 304-599-5343.

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October 5-7 • Macon, GA Great Georgia Peach Jam at L ake Tobesofkee. All weekend jam! MD and other instruments. Saturday night potluck. In f: John Stockard, 3686 Sussex Dr., M illedgeville GA 31061. 478-452-5713, continued dulcimer4u@yahoo.com. October 6-7 • Bennington, OK Master Works Sawdust Dulcimer Festival. Okl ahoma State HD & MD contests, wor kshops, concerts, jam sessions. Info: Wood 'n Strings, 1801 Peyco Drive South, A rlin gton TX 76001. 888-752-9243, sawdustdulcimerfest.com. October 7 -13 • Brasstown, NC Intermediate Hammered Dulcimer. Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.org. October 12-14· St. Petersburg, FL Sunshine State Acoustic Music Camp. Classes (MD, HD, other acoustic instruments), concert, camping ava ilable. In fo: Charl ey Groth, 703 15th Ave. N.W., Largo FL 33770.

Info: Forrest D. Smith, PO Box 493, Booneville MS 38829, 662-728-5448. forsmith @bellsouth.net.

727-585-5678 (before 10 p.m. EDT), rainbowpr@juno.com. October 12-14· Elba, AL Heart of Dixie Dulcimer Festival. (M D) Open stage, jam sessions, crafts, vendors welcome. Info: Loretta Piland or Byrdell Kersey, 200 East Cummings Ave., Opp, AL 36467. wetter@ oppca tv.com. Oct. 12 -14 • Palestine, OH Old Time Gospel Music Retreat. HD, MD, auto harps, other acoustic instruments. In fo: Joyce Harrison, 937-473-5 143, gospelretreat@yahoo.com, www.geocities.com/gospelretreat. October 13 • Leominster, MA Mt. Dulclmer/Guitar Daye. Workshops for beginner to advanced. Jams, concert. Rental instruments available. Info: send SASE to Ruth Harnden, 58 Hickory Rd., Leominster MA 01453. October 19-20 • Tishomingo, MS Fall Dulcimer Day. Performances, jam sessions, and sales booths. (MD & HD)

October 19-24· Lvov, Ukraine Cimbalom World Association Congress. Festival/conference covering the whole (h) du lcimer family. Info: Vik tori a Herencsar, CWA, H-1 660, Budapest PF 331, Hungary. TellFax 0036-1-2567371. cwa prim @ matavn e t.hu. October 20 • Northborough, MA 2nd Annual Bay Path Hammered Dulcimer Festival with workshops and jamm ing. Held at First Parish Church UU. Info: Ken Mattsson, 164 Cushing St., Cambridge MA 02138-4582, 617-576-933 1, www.walkways.orglbaypath. October 20-21 • Dodgeville, WI Dulcimer Weekend at Folklore Village. Beginning to advanced MD & HD, barn dance, singing. Info: 608-924-4000. www. folklorevillage.org. October 26 - 2B • Launde Abbey, UK Nonsuch Annual Weekend sponsored

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Summer 2001 • 11 by the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club. Workshops (MD, HD). Info: Sally Whyte head, 19 Ivor Rd., Redditch B97 4PF, UK. +441527401040. www.hillside.co.uklnonsuch.

November 2-4 • Mobile, At Deep South Dulcimer Association Festival at Chickasabogue Park. (MD, HD) Pot luck dinner, jamming, open stage. Info: Donna Blanchard, 334-344-5501 or Jim Qu int, 334-661-4481.

October 2&-28 • near Pittsburgh, PA Allegheny Dulcimer Retreat. Hammered dulcimer workshops, jamming, concert. Reserve early; space limited. Info: Gini Anslinger, RR 6, Box 212, Altoona PA 16601 , 814-943-8246, gini! 6601 @aol.com.

November 2-4 • Ashley, OH Buckeye Fall Folk 'Us! Tunes, jams, gospel sing, crafts, night hiking. Info: Lou ise Ziegler, 740-747-2326. Email : buckeyedulcimer@yahoo.com November 3 • Elizabethtown, KY Heartland Dulcimer Fall Festival. Workshops for MD, HD, harmonica, guitar, tin whistle, etc. Open stage, concerts. Info: Craft Merchantile, 270-877-5551, dulcimore@aoi.com.

October 27 • CinCinnati, 011 Cincinnati Dulcimer Society Fall Festival. Mountain dulcimer workshops, evening concert, jams, dinner and open stage. Info: Madge Moore, 4534 Forest Ave., Norwood OH 45212. 513-53 1-8772.

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November 9-10 • Ridgeland, MS Central Mississippi Dulcimer Association Fall Festival. Workshops for MD, HD,

November 2-4 • East Troy, WI Stringalong Weekend. Concerts, workshops, singi ng, and dancing. Dulcimer activities. Info: UMW Folk Center, Ann Schmid, PO Box 413, Milwaukee WI 53201. 800-636-FOLK (3655) . www.uwm.edu/DeptIFol ki.

November 9-11. Pigeon Forge, TN Smokey Mountain DulCimer Retreat. Workshops: three levels of MD classes, one HD. Concerts. Info: Jim Gammon, 10844 Carmichael Rd., Knoxville TN 37932.865-694-401 8. www.korrnet.orgf kadclactivities.html.

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ohn Blosser may be unfamiliar to yo u unless you happen to subscribe to the Sweet Music Ma iling List on the inte rnet, a fo rum in which he is a freque nt and vocal contribu to r. Even so, yo u probably know him be tter as "Coyote"-the persona he adopts whe n staunchly advoca ting the primacy of the 1-5-5 (normally D-A-A) tuning for the mountain dulcimer, a tuning he charac-

te ri zes as the " Mother of the Gods" or MOG tun ing. I'm taking no sides in that argume nt but Coyote Dulcimer makes a compelling argume nt in support of his opinion. All but one of the fo urteen tunes a re in the MOG tuning and all are superbly played in John's unique fi nger picking style. Using a thum b pick and three brass fi nge rpicks, he moves skillfully among soulful renditions of classical themes like Panis Angelicus, pop standards like I Can't Help Falling in Love with you, and hot fid dle tunes like Ba rlow Knife. There are a couple of origina l tunes and one superb original song called Coyote Speaks. Heidi Mulle r helps out o n dulcime r (tuned D A-D !) and Tracy Sands sings on D avid Schnaufe r's Twiligh t Eyes a nd the Irish ai r A Star Mo Chroi. The a lbum is we ll engineered and a de light in every respect. You'll have to ma ke up your own mind about the tuning debate!

e nise G uillory a nd Les Amis are back with a new album of Caju nfl avored music. The Louisiana Waltz is a wo nde rful follow-up to My Creole Girl (see the Win ter 2000 issue). Les Amis is Denise (hamme red and mounta in dulcimers a nd vocalS), Je rry Hess (guitar, drum a nd vocals), Na ncy Baker (bass), and Jake Alford (harmonica). Agai n the band mixes Cajun staples, like Diggy Diggy La, The Little Cajun G irl, a nd J'a i Passe Devant ta Porte, with their own special treatme nts of great old tunes like Was hingto n Square, Wayfa rin g Stra nge r and the Minstre l Boy. The ever-creative Je rry

Hess has a take on T he Cuckoo that will knock your socks off. T here are six G uillory originals, including the title tune, which are amo ng the strongest cuts on the album. The final cut is a wonderful treatment of Sam Stone's powerfu l Who Stole the Magic. T he re are seventeen cuts in all and every one is a gem. Some great gumbo!

ale Jacobsen, a hamme red a nd mountain dulcimer playe r from Austra lia, also plays treble-bowed psaltery (I thin k that means using three bows at once !). She has assembled a talented cast of supporting musicians, including John Wright on guitars, a nd has done a wonderful job on Hammer On! T he notes say that 196 strings we re used in the making of the recording and I couldn't hear a single one that was out of place. You'll hear Elizabethan English tunes (Tobacco Pipe), Celtic airs (Cle rgy's Lame ntation, Mist Covered Mo untai ns of Home, Whe n She Cam Ben She Bobbit), a U kra inian Christm as carol (Carol of the Bells), a 16th-ce ntury Fre nch tune (Passo Media), a German Christmas carol (Es 1st Ein' Ros'), a Scottish Pipe tune (Scarce 0' Tatties), and several contemporary tunes (Blackwood, Dovehouses, Museum Horn pipe) and is rounded out by superb re nditions of La Partida a nd Music fo r a Found Ha rmonium. Dale plays mountai n dulcimer on o ne tune, but so the album really showcases he r considerable hammered du lcimer a nd psaltery skills. The arra ngements flow wonderfully in an uncomplicated but majestic way. T he liner photo of the Australian outback reflects the album 's mood pe rfectly. This is music to savor a nd I strongly recommend you do so!

exan Peggy Carte r takes a diffe re nt app roach to the hammered dulcimer on Look Back with Love, combining old-time fiddl e tunes (Blac k Mounta in Rag, Ove r the Wate rfa ll), ragtime classics (Wabas h Blues Rag), old pa rlor pieces (The O ld Spinning Wheel, Beauti ful Dreamer), and spiritua l ruminations (Joy Medley, 0

Lord Most Holy, A La Na nita Nana) with a Swiss waltz (S teig Waltz), a Henry Purcell classical piece (Trumpet Voluntary), and a contem porary tune or two (Pat de Budgie) . Peggy has won both the Texas a nd Southe rn Regional Hammered Dulcime r champio nships, has traveled widely across the country as a perfo rme r, and is the guiding force behind Houston's SAMFEST each year. The album stands quite nice ly on its own as a listening expe rience but 1 wanted to particul arly report on its multimedia content. Whe n yo u insert the C D in yo ur computer, it launches a menu of some six program cho ices: introductory information on Peggy and her music; a video report on musical activities at Houston's Hickory Hollow; the de lightful story of William Hughes, who immigrated from Wales to America in the 18th century (complete with dulcimer acco mpaniment featuring period costumes); a clip in support of HAAMS (the Houston Area Acoustic Music Society); a video montage of du lcimers and accessories available through Pick 'n Hamme r Quality Musicallnstru-

ments; and an overview of festival activity that Peggy's involved in. This is the first time I've seen anythi ng like this (I don' t buy much Rock 'n Rolli guess) and I wish I had thought of it. This is high tech with a dulcimer fl avor and yo u get a n album of great tunes too!

Kentucky's Lo rinda Jones and her

friends, who call themselves Just By Chance, have released a lovely collection of Irish and Scottish traditional music played on ha mmered and mountain dulcime r, Celtic harp, whistl es, recorders, flute, violin, cello, English horn, piano, oboe, ma ndolin, a nd guitar. Cottages and Castles is fill ed with marve lous arrangements that seamlessly weave the various instrumental textures into a very cohesive whole. The music is conte mplative, peaceful a nd serene for the most part with frequent injections of sprightly da nce rhythms that make it a delightful experience. Lorinda's Celtic harp playing is te rrific and along with Bre nda Brooks' hamme red dulcime r, gene rally

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states each theme. Rob Smith's plays a languorous violin and cello; Dell Harris plays rhythmic guitar. I suspect you'll enjoy letting these folks create your own custom image as you lose yourself in the music.

ubrey Atwater says that her new book, Song by Song, is a compilation of workshop mate rials from a decade of teaching mountain du lcimer, old-time banjo, tin whistle, guitar, jamming, group singing and ballad singing. Lest you think that it is simply a few dozen TAB arrangements pieced together, stapled, and delivered over the transom, let me assure yo u that this is a remarkable resource that is beautifully packaged and chock full of Aubrey's insight and wisdom in add ition to the 85 songs and tunes arranged for mountain dulcimer, o ld-time banjo, Irish tin whistle, guitar and voice . The book is organized by instrument. The mountain dulcimer section contains 43 separate arrangements, in standard notation and TAB, as well as an introduction to the instrument; instructions on reading the tablature; a few hints on left-hand techniques, proper fingering, chording and singing; a section on first steps for fingerpickers; a discussion of tunings and modes; hints for using a noter; fla tpicking fiddle tunes, participating in group sing-alongs; and capoing in a jam session. Each song is arranged much like you see the songs in Sing Out! and is complete with tuning instructions and hints on various ways you might wish to accompa ny the song. All of the songs are traditional with some Atwate r origi nals thrown in for good measure. The dulcimer section alone is worth the price of the book but there is much more material in the banjo and tin whistle sections as we ll, particularly valuable if you can read music. 0

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Technical Dulcimer by Sam Rizzelta

Interval

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ast issue we discussed mean-tone temperame nt for fretted dulcime r. I hope some of yo u playe rs and builde rs have given it a try. It is even easier to experiment with

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need to retune a bit. So, in this installment we will explore mean-tone temperament tuning for hammer du lcimer.

You long-time DPN subscribe rs should check your back issues for Ri ck Fogel's excellent article, " Mean-Tone Temperament for Hammer Dulcimer," Vol. 14, No. 4, Fall 1988. Rick gives some valuable historical perspective to tunings and temperaments and advice on tuning. In the las t Technical Column I pointed out that the natu ral scale is the most harmonious to the ear, especially if we are playing in one key only. The modern equal temperament, as used on pianos, allows us to play in any key. But it requires adjusting the tuning of scale intervals so that they arc somewhat out-of-tune with the natural scale. Most modern musicians have heard on ly equal temperament and are not aware of the compromise it re presents. Mea n-tone temperame nt is a clcver adj ustment of intervals so that we may closely approxi mate the best attributes of the natural scale, its pure major thirds, while being able to play in several keys that are nearby on the circle of fifths. Keys that sound good are A, D, G, C, F, and Bb. This suits the fifth-interval hammer dulcimer perfectly with its easy scales in F, C, G, D, and A. T he fact that trad itional music is played in these keys and the dulcimer is tuned to play those keys probably reftects some evolutio nary debts to mean-tone temperament. The chart in Figure I, adapted from Rick Fogel's art icle, compares the natural scale, mean-tone temperament, and

equa l te mpera ment. With the note "C" as a the sta rting po int, the numbers ind icate intervals and compare deviations in cents. The cent is a logarithmic unit equal to 1/1200 of an octave o r 1/100 of an equal te mpered half-step interval. Thus, the interval C to C# equals 100 cents in equal temperament. Your electronic tuner indicates plus and minus deviations in

cents. The mean-tone tempered fifth interval has been defined as 696.6 cents. The mean-tone scale shown a t the top of the next column is derived by calcu lating upwards and downwards from F, showing all notes in the same octave, rounding off to whole cents, and starting with C at zero. You will notice from the chart in Figure 1 that na tural a nd mean-tone are in close agreeme nt at the major third, E, while equal temperame nt is 14 cents sharp, a serious and very audible deviation. This d ifference is heard in chords where nat ural and mea n-tone sound much sweeter than equal

temperament. In fact, if you add that pure major third interva l of 386 cents to the cents value for any of the notes in the diato nic scale for mean-tone, except the 7th (G#), you will

Figure 1. lBmperament Comparisons find a note very close to tha t cents total, providi ng sweet major thirds for chords, harmonies, a nd attractive scales. Eventually the deviation fro m equal temperament shows up in the more distant keys a nd unusual intervals. Some keys and chords will not be useable. Rest assured that much classical music was writte n for mea n-tone. Stick to the convenient keys on your fifth-interval dulcimer a nd a ll will be wo nderful. Since electronic tuners indicate equal temperament at zero, and show deviation in cents, we can use one to tune our

hammer dulcimer to mean-tone temperament. You can see from Figu re 1 that the fifth-interval (G) is rather close for all three scales. We could leave our fifth-interva l treble bridges whe re they are and st ill approximate mean-tone tuning. To tune more accurately we wi ll need to narrow the fifth across the bridge. Assuming the treble bridge is accurate ly placed to produce an equal-tempered fifth , we need 10 move the bridge very sligh tly to the right so that the left-side note reads about 4 cents ft at when the right side note reads zero. Do this slowly and carefu lly, or have a dulcimer builde r make this adjustment. A good strobe tuner is the most accurate electronic tuner for this task. But yo u can use whatever you have and approximate as well as your tuning meter permits. Then tune the notes of your dulcimer to the deviation chart on the next page, Figure 2. Plus means tune sharp of zero the indicated number of cents. Minus mea ns tune fl at of zero. For instance,

when tuning yo ur C# strings the tuner shou ld indicate C# a nd 14 cents ftat to be in tune for mean-tone. I added 10 cents to the values in Figure 1 to bring A to zero. But we could choose a d ifferent zero reference if we wis hed.

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Be prepared to hear sweeter sounds from your dulcimer than ever before. I especially like to use mean-tone temperament whe n playing or recording solo, with singe rs, with non-fixed-pitch instruments such as violins, and with other instruments tuned to mean-tone. I recorded most of the CD Flowing Waters with solo hamme r dulcimer tuned to mean-tone a nd accompanied by the SO UIlU S uf remote streams and waterfalls. Mean-tone temperament sounds especially nice fo r other multistring folk instruments like harps, psalteries, a nd auto harps, and especia lly the diatonic autoharps. Musicians in other cu ltures around the world are sensitive to the defects in the equa l-tempered music of Europe and America. Some have told me that they don't like western music because it sounds out of tune to them . It was n't a lways that way. We can ga in some clues about which keys might sound good a nd which might not by lookin g at Figure 1 and comparing the natural and mean-tone scales to

equa l temperament. Notice that natural

and mean-tone have flatted 3rds, 6ths, and 7ths compared to equal temperament, while the 4t hs and 5t hs are very close to equa l temperament. A ny major scale th at does not have those features wi ll not sound so good. For instance, you can see that the key of E will be a problem owi ng to the very sha rp Eb!D# relative to E. The morc harmonious scales show an interval of 11 2 to 117 cen ts between the 7th and the keynote, or 1st. This interval is o nly 75 cents for the key of E. We could avoid D# or not use it strongly. Or we could retune the D# to play in E, my usual solution. Of course, if we wish to play in only one key, we can tune to the natural scale. Just tune the keynote to ze ro and tune up the scale with the appropriate deviations for each degree of scale. Experime nting with tunings is fun, rewarding, and good ear trai ning. You may discover that yo ur electronic tuner doesn't always have to read "zero.!" 0

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by John French· louisville, Kentucky

rom the moment I heard John McCutch.eon play hamme red dulcimer in 1977 at Pine Mountain State Park in Kentucky, I knew I wanted to play the instrument. After an ill-fated detour wit h the banjo (insert jokes here), I finally bought one and learned to play it. I have si nce owned five or six diffe rent models. I have played at various private and public functions in the Louisville area over the yea rs, both solo and with my acoustic

group, "Out of the Woodwork," featur-

ing lap dulcimer and guitar. While at a "pickin' party" at the home of my good friend , bluegrass banjo ist (remove jokes here) Harry Bickel, I was shown an antique dulcime r built into a small table. Harry had bought it at an antique shop in Pennsylva nia. It had a treble bridge on ly and, at the time, just four strings, only one of which was a nywhere near the proper tu ning. The o ri ginal bass bridge was lying off to o ne side, but its "shadow" showed on the left side of the instrument, not on the right as on contemporary models. It had no tuning wrench or hammers, but it d id have nifty, felt-covered areas in two corners to protect the soundboard from candleholders. I t also had a gold-colored, hand-lettered label inside the hinged top: " Durand's Dulcimer" arched gracefully over " Patented Nov. 10, 1868'.' SUtllllel'

1994: Harry offered to sell me

the dulcimer for the same price he had paid. My wife and I considered the purchase for several long seconds and decided to go a head and make the inves tme nt. We carefully loaded the instrum ent into our van, drove it home, a nd put it in the entry, right near the front door, whe re it fa ithfully held our

The dulcimer pre-restoration, with only a few strings and with the treble bridge removed (it was originally strung opposite to todays configuration).

mail and othe r necessaries for the coming months, wh ich slowly turned to years.

August 1995: I showed the dulcime r to Ed Hale, who was in Louisville for Kentucky Music Weekend. He recommended that I contact Sam Rizzetta, Dulcimer Players News, a nd the US Patent Office for information. I sent a letter to DPN's Music Exchange column later that month. On the 17th, I received an e ma il contact from Paul Gifford, now a regular columnist for DPN. He shared information on Durand's career and dulcimers, along

with a few possible contacts for me to pursue in Indiana. Subsequent calls to the I ndiana museums he had recommended , however, proved

fruitless.

February 1996: I heard from Fred Pet-

rick, a dulcime r player from Illinois. He sent informat ion about Durand dulcimers from a Smithsonian publication, along with a request for information on buying a simila r a ntique instrument. Th is began a long and very helpfu l communication.

June 1996: I wrote for a nd received DPN reprints about a "dulcimer-in-abox," but the dulcimer was a lap-style instrument.

July 1996: I called the Indiana museum again (The Riley House in Indianapolis) and was told of the James Whitcomb Riley Birthplace Museum. When I called there, I found that they did indeed have a musical instrument fitting my Durand's description. I visited the museum on July 10 and found the Durand dulcimer on the second floor at the top of a stairway. It had the origi nal

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huge, xylopho ne-s tyl e hammers, th e same leg shapes and trim as mine, no fold-down to p as mine had, and mareelaborate carvings. (I recommend a visit to the museum, found at 250 West Main Street, G reenfield, Indiana.) Late r th at mo nth, Fred Petrick sent me a copy of th e Smithsonian's The Hammered Dulcimer in America, a goldmine of info rm at io n on hamme red dulcimer constructio n and use all around the USA, including data o n Ezra Durand. At this po int in my records I have a two-year gap, during which my Durand dulcimer continued to hold mail, Christmas displays, and whatever my family needed to deposit there. July 1998: I exchanged emails with Paul Gi ffo rd of DPN. H e had some restoration ti ps, concl udin g with "tune it and play it. " I wasn' t convinced that th is part icul ar d ulcime r could stand the pressure of restringing and tuning in a co ntempo rary style, wi th the bass bridge

moved to the right side, so I del ayed a ny furthe r resto ratio n. August 1998: I received a lette r from Fred Petrick, seeking an antique dulcime r o f his own and offerin g tips o n th e resto rati o n of mine. At Kentucky Music Weekend, I showed th e dulcimer to J im Miller, po pular perfo rm er, teacher, and dulcimer builde r fro m Te nnessee. He had previo usly shared photos of antique dulcime rs he had rebuilt and resto red. U nfo rtun ately, he was no t able to take o n an extra project at that time. February 1999: I gave my dulcimer to Doc Stuedl e of nearby Pewee Valley, Ke ntucky. Doc is a long-time member of th e Louisville Dulcimer Society and a well- known dulcimer builder and resto re r. (He was voted Ke ntucky's Bee Keeper of the Yea r in 2000!) I asked Doc to check o ut the dulcimer structurally, to see if it could withstand th e stra in o f a right-side bass bridge and

Hand lettering under the double-hinged cover

subsequ ent restringi ng. If so, he would need to make a new bass bridge to match th e original in style and co lor. He agreed to take on the project. June 1999: I retired fro m public school teaching a nd was able to devote mo re time to my music. 1 received several emails from Fred Petrick: he had purchased a Durand dulci mer via a n Internet auction site! It was comple te with documentation of its 1901 display at th e Metropolitan Museum of Art. He o utcontinued

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lined his plans for its restoration, including the need to have legs made, since the original, screw-in legs were gone. Future emails included details of the dulcimer's restoration, including flipping some internal braces to correct the soundboard's warping and treating the instrument with penetrating epoxy to fill cracks and stabilize the wood. This was a far more ambitious project than mine, and I admired Fred's thorough preparation and knowledge.

breeze in and out of each store without browsing and dreaming; such a search could have spanned days! Luckily, in the second or third shop we visited, we found the dulcimer and, incredibly, it was a Durand. It still had the original, xylophone-style hammers, but structurally it was in very bad shape and economically it was three times the price I had paid for mine; it probably still can be found in Georgetown "near the courthouse."

July 1999: Following a tip given me by Tom and Michelle Wolf, longtime friends and fellow attendees of the yearly Ohio Valley Gathering, my wife and I journeyed to Georgetown, Kentucky in search of another antique dulcimer. The Wolfs had seen it in an antique shop "near the courthouse." This tip seemed easy enough to follow until we discovered that there were six or eight shops in that location, including some of the mall variety. We began our search but, of course, we couldn't just quickly

April 2000: Mer several (OK, make that "many") phone calls inquiring about Doc's progress with the dulcimer early in 2000, I visited Doc and his wife, Betty, to pick up my restored Durand. Doc had made and affixed a new bass bridge, cleverly staining it with graphite lock lubricant to match the exact color of the treble bridge. He had restrung the entire dulcimer and had fashioned a tuning wrench from a slightly flattened wrench socket to fit the various-sized tuning pins. His fine craftsmanship and

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antique instrument. Somehow, it just doesn't seem proper, though I think it wouldn't bother Ezra Durand. I displayed the dulcimer at the Louisville Dulcimer Society's Old Christmas party, a huge gathering of the club's members and families, in January 2001. I attached some padding to a furniture dolly so I could safely strap the dulcimer to it and wheel it into the church for the party. And I had thought that carrying a modern dulcimer case and stand was cumbersome! The dulcimer was much app reciated and played upon, and I was invited to play it again at the club's open stage, held at a regular meeting later that month. In the Future: I plan to share the dulcimer and its unique tone and history in my performances at retirement homes and other ve nues. I think it is the perfect instrument for weddings at restored historic homes in this area so [' 11 pursue that idea, too. My deepest thanks go to a ll who have helped my Durand du lcimer play once again: Harry Bickel, from whom I bought the dulcimer; Paul Gifford and Fred Petrick, for their experience and sage advice; and, most of all, to Doc Stuedle for taking on this project and bringing music once again fro m the strings of the Durand dulcimer. We truly have a wide, friend ly, supportive group of friends within our dulcimer world! 0

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The restrung dulcimer and new treble bridge, all the work of Doc Stuedle.

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Solar-Powered Hammered Duldmen Dale Jacobsen â&#x20AC;˘ Australia IH

s I lift my head from my workbench and look out the

w indow, all I can see are mountains, va lleys, trees, oh

yes, and lots of birds. I live, with my lu thier-partner Doug Eaton, in the mountains of Maleny, in South-East Queensland in Australia, otherwise known as "heaven ." OUf home and workshop is on fifteen acres of almost unspoiled bush, with a river running through rainforest at the bottom of the block. The price we have to pay for living in such an area is to provide our own electricity. When we first moved from the city of Brisbane, we wo ndered if it would be possible to run a fully equiped workshop (not to mention computer, microwave, TV, etc.) on solar power. We asked the advice of a local solar power expert, who designed a system for us. Four years later, we are powering, so to speak. I have been making a nd playing hammered dulcimers for about nine years. My firs t instrume nt was lap dulcimer, which I still play occasionally. I got into instrument making when I wanted to play both types of du lcimers. I was a financially challenged un i student. My father had been a cabinet maker, so I crossed my fingers and hoped I had inherited the right ge nes fro m him. That is where I met Doug, he was my tutor at a regular workshop he had been running for about twenty years. My first hammered dulcimer was made usi ng a plan I had bought fro m Pat Sephton in Australia. It was all right, and [ made three more from this plan, but it had its drawbacks. Two years ago [ went to the Cimbalom World Association Congress in Belarus with my frie nd and fe llow dulcimer maker, Gillian Alcock. Boy, did that open my eyes. [ very quickly learned (1) there are almost as many types of du lcimers as there are playe rs and (2) hey, anything goes, just experiment!

For five weeks after the congress, I played aro und E ngland and Scotland, looking at every type of dulcimer I could get my hands on, and talking to various makers. [ came home wi th my mind fu ll of ideas. [ then spent the next eighteen months reading everything [ could on design, and quest ioni ng players on what worked for them . [n July 19991 fe lt [had finally gathered enough information , and had worked out what suited me. So [ turned on my solar-powered Macintosh compute r, and began to use a string ana lysis spreadsheet obtained from a harp maker. I kn ew the

layout [ wanted to use for a chromatic dulcimer, and also the breaking strain and tension-to-length ratio wh ich would produce a good-soundi ng dulcimer. Eventually I drew up the plans, and in August, proceded to make my 'Aurora' 9: I6:15 chromatic du lcimer. (l have always been an Antarctic nut). The range is D two octaves below middle C up to e ll I. [t is chromatic from the D below middle C upwards.

like to use Australian timbers where possible, and it turned out to be possible to use them throughout. Silver Ash internal fra ming, Crows Ash pinblocks (although [ wo uldn 't use this tim ber aga in, as it grips the pins too tigh tly), Queensland Red Cedar cladding, Jarra h bridges a nd nuts. The soundboard is 9mm ply, with a veneer of quarter sawn Queensland Maple. [chose ply for the soundboard for stability, having been shown in England that it still makes a good-so unding instrument. The results? It is a wonderfu l instrument. Everything I hoped for. The sound is clear and sweet, but still fu ll. After the strings settled down in about three weeks, the instrument stayed in tune. What luxury to be able to just sit down and play. I carry it aro und in the back of my 4WD from gig to gig, a nd mostly I only have to tweak a note or two. During the 18th century, dulcimers were made with integral lids, which were painted in harpsichord fas hion. [ have always wondered why this practice doesn't continue. I have a lid for my new dulcimer with lift-off hinges and catches. It has made life so much easier than having to put the instrument in a soft case. A musician friend of mine, Debra Carey, is also a Celtic artist. Before she left to live in Scotland, I commissioned her to paint two intertwining dogs on the outside of the lid. This has turned a beauliful instrument into a very special one. Apa rt from solo playi ng (mostly Celtic), I also play in a recently formed band called Athole Brose, (it's a Scottish drink), and Musica Prima , a medieveVrenaissance trio. Instrumentation in this band includes hammered dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, oboe, shawms, bowed psalteries, recorders,

other wi nd instruments, and hand percussion.

The music scene is very much alive and kicking in Maleny, and I spend all my spare time, when not in the works hop, playing with fellow musicians at tearooms and various venues around about.

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In December 2000, J received a Council grant which enabled me to record my first hammered dulcimer CD, entitled Hamm er Ol/!. So, what is a trained Environmental Scientist doing earning her livi ng as an instrument maker? I like to think I am doing my bit for the environme nt, using solar power and all the things that come with living away from civilization. And the trees? Well, I am planting more than J am using, and the trees I use give a lifetime of pleasure to those who purchase my instruments. I like to think I am not too far off the mark. 0

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nde r the spotlight, a puff of silve r hair haloes her head, bent to the dulcimer's task. T he voice is littlegirlish, a mellow, wispy alto that threatens to drench the house in cloying sweetness, a nd the sanda ls and homespun plainness, the abse nce of makeup, re inforce the image-uncomfortably shifting husbands in the [rant row thin king, "Oh good Lord, a nother 60s leftover Pollyanna flower-child she's dragged me to see." But then, the platinum head raises, the voice bites, the steel-blue eyes glint with impishness and mischief, and the lyrics snap home like bullets hitting yo ur aware ness. " Wait a minute! T hat song's 110t about a groundhog! That song's 110t abo ut baseba ll! " Welcome to the Heidi Muller club, pal. In twenty-five years of performing,

seventeen on dulcimer, Heidi has

played venues from concert halls to living rooms throughout America, taught dulcimer to hundreds of Heidiwannabes and produced four recordings which have given her a firm and respected place in the national fo lk community. Bubbling with plans and bustling with activity, she's just getting started. "There's so much I wa nt to do. ) want to make my own, pe rsona l contribution to music, especially with du lcimer. I wa nt to make my tunes and music available in books and play the German folk music that was around

when I was a kid and try to do some Gypsy jazz o n dulcimer and ... and .. .Yes! swing music! J'm looking for tu nes that wo rk on a diatonic fretboard, and I was listening to some Chopin the other day a nd thought, 'That would be good on dulcimer! And more research! I'm looking into the music of the Moravians. A nd I want to know more abou t scheitholts! " She taught at the Northeast Dulcimer Symposium this yea r and several other festivals and wants to produce a book of songs of o ne of her mentors, lhe legendary songmeister Bill Stai nes. She will be included in the second ed ition of Susan Trump's Masters Of The Mountain Du/cim el; (due out sometime

this summer) and .... and ... and ... O h yes! I love to teach! And I'm in process for a new CD, something with more dulcimer so I can record my new tunes. There's so much to be done!"

eidi's tale begins in WaShington, New Jersey, with her East German uncle Ge rhard Roscher, who would strum zither tunes fro m his native Erzgebirge region. "He a lways wanted me to play zi ther, and) felt badly because I picked up a gu itar a nd a dulcimer instead, but then I realized that the dulcimer is a zither! So I was playing one all a long! " On a trip to Ge rmany at age eleven, when she heard a young wo man playing guitar a nd singing at a wedding, she was tru ly hooked. " ) had to have a guitar whe n I got back! We retrieved my mother's o ld noname guitar fro m the closet and fixed up the badly warped neck." Full-tilt into the fo lk revival of the time, she played Dylan a nd Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, started all-girl rock bands in high school, entered talent contests, sang "The Circle Game" at her high school graduation, and played open mike nights in the Boston area. She heard Bill Staines in 1975, an epiphany that led to writing her own music. "We we re really young in the fo lkie days, and it sparked an idealism. T he music was listened to. The lyrics meant something a nd it showed us it was possible to get out and play this kind of music." In 1984, she bought a used Jay Leibowitz dulcimer in a Boston music store. ") was captivated by the sound of the dulcimer and the repertoire, Celtic songs and de licate things, that my friend Gail Rundlett played. Finally, I could n't live without one. I learned du lcimer by pushing myself to perform with it, and was pretty much self-taught. For yea rs, ) played in four-equid istantstri ng style, like Lorraine Hammond, revelling in the lush chords a nd finge rpicking. Then, I discovered traditional and fidd le tunes at contrada nces, and I wen t back to playing three-string style because it seemed cleaner and crisper for fas tlUnes."

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Having moved to Seattle in 1981 she hooked up with Victory Music, a musicians' co-op, playing open mikes and producing concerts. But writing and performing always beckoned. "There are always walls to overcome in per-

forming. For me, it was shyness. Performing is not easy for me, or anyone else- it takes courage, commitment, a belief in one's self and persistence. And there's no way to get over those walls without pushing through them ."

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" It takes courage. When you write about yo ur own feelings, you expose who you are. You're letti ng complete strangers into your deepest thoughts and emotions. But if you write with truth, and write songs with universal meaning, it connects yo u to yo ur audience. That's the most important reason for performing-self-expression and expressing the truth that is within you. Otherwise, why do it?" "The weird thing about this is that you end up feeling the audience knows yo u better than they should, and yo u don't know anything about them! People fall in love with you because of your songs. They make assumptions based on their own interpretations. They think you're a 12-stepper or a lesbian or you want to go o ut wi th them. 'That song sou nded like you're looking for somebody. Are you looking for somebody?' That song is ten years o ld !" How mallY limes have I given my heal1,

On the wings of a song. How mall)' tim es have I made a new start,

That didn 't last very long? - Rising Dawn

Her CDs-Giving Back, Cassiopeia and Mailers Of The Heart and her first cassette release BeMeen The Water And The Wind-are expressions of her spirit and resonate with those who hear them. Audiences keep coming to listen, and coming back for more. She's been from coast to coast, sometimes maki ng

money, sometimes losing money, not often caring about money but always about the song and the connection.

My final destination doesn 't mailer anymore, Somehow it's more imponant just to leave the safety of the shore -Sometime Next Summer She has shared stages wit h Nanci Griffith, Tom Paxton, Ramblin' Jack E ll iott, Jean Ritchie and other giants; sipped icy blue margaritas by her tent at Camp Coho at the Kerrville (Texas) Songwriters' Festiva l for years, and last year was a featured performer there; founded the Washington State Mountain Dulcimer Society; had her song, "Good Road" chosen as the theme song for Northwest Public Radio's Inland Folk Show. She's taught dulcimer for fifteen years and played it for audiences of from 6 to 6000, from folk clubs to Seattle's symphony hall. And the facts tell, and mean, little. What Heidi Muller o n her road is doing is crafting a life of music and amassing a heritage of meaning. They will last, long after her road comes to an end.

There's an edge oul here, I'm trying 10 walk il A SIOlY 10 lell, I've been trying 10 talk it Facing into Ihe lVind all day You get a lillie slronger, climbing this way. -The Edge Living in New Jersey after so many fruitful yea rs in Seattle, she is planning her future, and knows there will always be a future for her in her music. "Thank heavens for house concerts! We're real-

ly not in a folk era right now, but the music continues, whether mainstream

America pays attention or not. There is

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a very strong netwo rk of ho megrown folkies, and house concerts keep it goi ng. They're close and perso nal, and invol ve a lot less effo rt th an going into a club. Most of the time, you don 't need a so und system, a nd you have 30 to 70 people who really want to see yo u a nd liste n.

I'm somewhere between the old Gnd the flew 1))'ing on the fa ces and heading of! to places that I never knew I dan ce betweellthe darklless alld the light that blillds Following the answers I find between the lines. -Between The Lines " My favorite so ng so far is ' Gypsy Wind.' It's about to come out o n a Seattle Folklore Society CD. It came as a surprise, from having time o n my hands and sitting in a cafe with a glass of merlO! and writing it o n a napkin. It has a sense of mys tery abo ut it. " Songs sometimes can change people 's lives. Some songs can he lp somebody get thro ugh a hard time or give the m th e answe r to a tough question. Sometimes so ngs move somebody a long the patb of life, and that makes it wo rth it. It gratifies me to know that when I perform, ot he r people reso nate with the song and are to uched and moved by it. It's communication and sharing, and th a t makes it all worth it. " I've started writing instrumental tunes too. I wrote a waltz o ne day whe n a student didn 't show up. Next thing I

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by Jeanne Page. Albuquerque, New Mexico

" Places everyone! Quiet on the set! Begin recording in black ... Floor Manager, cue the Host that her mic will be hot in 10 seconds ... ro ll the Intra tape, and fade to VTR 1 ... Sound, turn up the Host ... Prep Camera 2 ... Floor Manager, tell the Host she can begin in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... and fade to Camera 2 ... " A cheerful face fills your TV screen and you can't believe it when you hear: "Good evening, and welcome to Apple Mountain Music. Have we got some great dulcimer music for you tonight! " "What? Did she say dulcimer music?" you think to yourself. " I thought my only music choice was a young head-banging e lectric guitar player on MTV ... but, a TV show all about dulcimers?" Does this seem impossible? To the contrary, it is very do-able. We produce a regular weekly television show here in Albuquerque, New Mexico that features not o nly mountain and hammered dulcimer, but psaltery, bagpipes, folk harp, nyckleharpa, glass armonica (that's right, the spinning glass bowls that Benjamin Franklin invented), and lots of other fun acoustic instruments. Most important, you can do it, too. Your local cable station is required, by law, to provide an opportunity for you, a community member, to use the air waves for personal, political, religiou s, etc. expression. We chose to use the opportunity as an educational tool, to teach our communi ty about folk music and traditional acoustic instruments. There are many approaches you can take to presenting information about the du lcimer through television. Following are a few of the ways that we have chosen to highlight both mountain and hammered dulcimers:

• The History of the Dulcimer. Bring on a guest who can explain what is known about the history of the instrument.

Beverly Shiver. Camera Operator. aims her camera at Kathy Wimmer on flute.

Where did it come from ? Who played it? What contexts was it used in? What are some inte resting historica l traditions associated with the instrument? For example, one guest described the quaint use of the "courting dulcimer," explaining to our audience th at no chaperone was necessary for the couple playing the du lcimer as lo ng as the parents could hear sweet music. If the music stopped, you could bet that 'Daddy' would be the re in a jiffy! Following his explanation, we were able to show a video clip of two people playing the courting dulcimer. Thanks to a unique camera shot directly over the heads of the two players, our viewers were able to see the intr icate "dance of hands" on the fret board, fingers waltzing gracefully together in synchrony.

• Demonstrate Styles. Invi te a va riety of guests to demonstrate a traditional noter style, ftatpicking styles, hammeron and pu ll-off techniques, etc. for the mountain du lcime r. For this type of show, one of our favorite camera shots

is a closeup looking straigh t down the fretboard of the instrume nt. Th is allows us to take our audie nce right up close to see exactly what the musician is doing.

• Feature Individual Local Players. Over the last year or so we've had four national champions, one group of world champions, and several finalists from major folk fest ivals on our television show, all pulled from our own local communi ty. Who are the really excellent musicians that live right in your

own backyard? Invite them into the studio to show off their stuff!

• Teach a ''How·to'' Session. Have someone give a "mini lesson" on the dulcimer, describing the different parts of the instrument and expla ining the basics of playing.

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• Feature Your Local Dulcimer Club. Recently we brought our e ntire Apple Mountain Dulcimer Club into the studio and had a great time filming some of our favorite tunes. • Feature National Performers Traveling Through Your Area. People are always amazed at the high-level national performers we have as guests on our show. For example, Hector Garcia, internationally acclaimed classical gui tarist, who has performed as a soloist with some of the finest orchestras in the world, performed on our little Cable Access show. How did we get a musician of such prominence? We asked. My philosophy is "Just ask-t he worst they can say is 'no'." Most of the time,

to our surprise, they say "yes," and we have had some very memorable shows because of it.

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• Report on an Upcoming Local Festival. For our Second Annual Albuquerque Folk Festival, we interviewed the director of the festival, and aired a variety of video clips explaining to our audience what they might expect to see and do on the day of the event, encouraging them to atte nd the dulcimer wo rkshops. • Go Out Into the Field to Report on a Local Event. Take your cameras out of the studio and to a concert, special event or festival, and then edit the footage into a full show. These a re just a few ways to present folk music to your local community, taking the mystery out of the dulcimer through the magic of television. How do you get started? Call your local Commu ni ty Cable Access Channel and they'll walk you through the steps. I was req uired to take a fo ur-week certification class to learn how to use all of the equi pment. I recruited several classmates to be on my crew and talked a

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few frie nds and family members into

joining me as well. I'm Sllre you're wondering: how

much is this going to cost me? The cost to enroll in the class was $35. The cost to use the studio, the control room, the lights, the came ras, sound board, switcher, and all of the equipment is FREE. Go back and read that again. Yes, in our community, the use of the entire television production studio is completely free. I buy our 12-packs of videotapes at a local cost·saving warehouse so each one costs $1 or so. We use one or two per shoot. There is usually old furniture and cheap styrofoam sets at the studio that anyone can use. We decided to make our own portable set at a cost of about $75 . We have some theater background and know a little about making some· thing that looks good to the aud ience, but it is basically held together with tape and paper clips! We use PVC pipe to construct a frame that we hang long rectangles of folksy material from . Everything breaks down and fits into one duffle bag, so it is easy to transport. We also constructed a window frame, and hang curtains, (using a few props

from home to create a "warm, down-

home" feeling) for our host to sit in front of. It's very small, since our TV audie nce only sees the host fro m the shoulders up. So, it can cost $35 or so to take a class, and a few dollars each time for videotapes-o r yo u can decide to increase the costs a bit to give the show the "look" you want. We couldn't bel ieve how inexpensive it can be to produce a weekly television show fea-

lighting, sound, cameras, props, and sets and take steps to make any adjustments needed for that particular guest. What's the payoff? The fun of actual filming and putting the show together, flipping on the TV and watching your show on the air, getting phone calls from people who say, " I love your show," "I'd never seen one of those things before," or best of all, " I've always wan ted to play a du lcimer. How do I get started?" And of course, we're happy to show them

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The hidden cost, though, is in time. In order to have everything How smoothly on the day of filming, it requires a huge amount of preparation time. Calling guests, the studio, the crew, the host (and the n call ing everybody again and again, leavi ng messages, etc.), considering the sound, the light· ing, the kinds of camera angles and shots you will take, who will be in which crew position, extra props or equ ipment yo u will need, etc. requires detailed planning. You must take the time to visual ize every step of the process from every possible perspective including

national dulcime r fam ily.

Jean Page performs and teaches both hammered dulcimer and folk harp through the University of New Mexico. She has several hammered dulcimer books available through Mel Bay Publications. Apple Mountain Music 10301 Comanche NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 applemtn@f1ash.net 505-237-2048

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n o ld Japanese song, but the ve rse was adapted in the Meiji era. Almost a ll Japanese believe that this song is traditional. The score of "Sakura" appeared in So-kyoku shu: Col/ection of Japanese Koto Music by Tokyo Academy of Music, Japan, published by the Depa rtment of Education in 1888. The koto is a long zither, with movable frets.

Sakura Sakura, Yayoi 110 sora wa miwatasu kagiri Kasumi ka kuma ka, nioi zo izunl Izaya izaya, miniyukall "Che rry blossoms. There are a lot of mists in the March sky, as if they came from smells of flowe rs. Let's go to see cherry blossoms." In 1923, Michio Miyagi ( 1894-1956), a fa mous composer a nd player, composed "Sakura Variations" for three kotos (o ne I7-stringed koto and two 13stringed kotos). The first two bars of my version(a-a-b-e-c-b-a-a-b-e-c-b) are borrowed from Miyagi's ·1st Variation.

Dulcimer Players in Japan According to New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Chinese dulcimer did reac h Japa n. But it couldn't survi ve through the years. Chinese music called Min-Shin-Gaku has decreased. We cannot find the yo-kin (Japanese ya ng-ch' in) now. The o nly museum piece is a ya-u-ki n in the Tokugawa art museum in Nagoya. The ya- ukin may be o ne of the musical instruments of Min-Shin-Gaku perfor med in the Ryukyu dynasty in the Okinawa islands. In th e 1970s, Ke iji Azami began to play the dulcimer as a studio musicia n,

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and Yasuko Kano began to play the cimbalom. [n the 1980s, Atsushi Iguchi orga nized the Japan Dulcime r Clu b. The news was published in the DPN's summer issue of 1986. About thirty dulcime r lovers gathered around J apan. They held Japa n Dulcimer Festivals four times until 1989. After 1990, the JDC disappeared. A lot of players may still be active, for example Tomo Yamaguchi (www.kcn .nejp/-yamaguch/ index.html) and Masaki Ishii.

he Japan Dulcimer Society was founded in 1994 arou nd Yasuko Kano. She was one of the first to go to Hungary and study cimbalom with Ida Tarjani Toth. Now there are about forty membe rs, including an [ranian santur player, Chinese ya ng-ch'in playe rs, hackbre tt players, and hammered dulcimer players. J DS have held du lcimer concerts in 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a dulcimer festival in 1998. The Heartstrings, located in Tokyo, may now be the only dulcimer club in Japa n. It started in 1997, taught by Dave Neiman. The head of the club is Masahiro Maejima. He attended the Augusta He ritage Center a few yea rs ago. He has a talent fo r making things and has already made fourteen dulcimers. Now he is teaching du lcime r building at Shukutoku U nive rsity. The students have made more th an ten dulcimers and are playing the m in their band. Two other Heartstrings members we nt to Augusta; we performed at the dulcimer festival in 1998. Now there are mo re than twenty members.

Musical groups using dulcimers: • Estrada (Michio Kawatake, dulcimer) • Ha rd to Find (Kenji Komatsuzaki, ha mmered dulcimer) • Carolan 's Cafe (Hiro, hamme red du lcimer) • Tablatura ([kuo Kondoh, hamme red dulcimer) www.li nkclub.or.jp/dowlandlEngiengl ish.html • Catherina Early Music Consort (Tessey Ueno, Santour) www.mmjp. or.jp/robahouse/index.html)

Biography I started to play the piano at the age of four, studied musicology at Kunitachi College of Music. Since graduating, I have been wo rking for Kunitachi College of Music Library. I joined the club from see ing the dulcime r concert in 1997, a nd performed in 1998. Since 1999 I've been secretary for Heartstrings. I wo uld like to search for tunes that could be played on diatonic hammered dulcimers, especially 12/11, and would like to arra nge tunes for 12/11. But recently I have been more eager to research dulcimer history than play the dulcimer.

YokoAoki Toyko, Japan

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Having moved to Seattle in 1981 she hooked up with Victory Music, a musicians' co-op, playing ope n mikes and producing concerts. But writing and performing always beckoned. "The re are always walls to overcome in per-

fo rming. For me, it was shyness. Performing is not easy for me, or anyone

else- it takes courage, commitment, a belief in one's self and pe rsiste nce. And there's no way to get over those wa lls without pushing through them."

Her CDs-Giving Back, Cassiopeia and Mailers Of The Hea rt and he r first cassette re lease BellVeen The Water And Th e Willd-are expressions of her spirit and resonate with those who hear them. Aud ie nces keep coming to listen, and coming back for more. She's been from coast to coast, sometimes making money, sometimes losing money, not often caring about money but always abo ut the song and the connection. My final destination doesn 't mailer

omewhere along the line, she realized that with concert production, performing, writing and recording (plus jobs on the side), she could forget he r BA in psychology and go pretty much fu ll time into music. She could use he r own lyrics like telepathy, her dulcimer like a ve ntriloquist's dummy, to speak her heart and resonate with the hearts of othe rs, in ways that conve rsation could never achieve. "It takes courage. Wh en you write about your own fee lings, you expose who yo u are. You're letting complete stra nge rs into your deepest thoughts and emotions. But if yo u write with truth, and write songs wi th universal meaning, it connects you to your audience. That'S the most important reason for perform ing- self-expression and expressing the truth that is with in yo u. Otherwise, why do it?" "T he weird thing abo ut this is that you end up feeling the audience knows you better than they should, a nd you don't know anything about them ! People fa ll in love with yo u because of you r songs. They make ass umptions based on their own interpre tations. T hey think yo u're a 12-stepper o r a lesbia n or yo u want to go out with them. 'That song sounded like you're look ing for somebody. Are you looking for somebody?' That song is ten years old! "

anymore, Somehow it's more imp0l1ant just 10 leave the safety of the shore -Sometime Next Summer She has shared stages with Na nci G riffith, Tom Paxton, Rambl in' Jack Elliott, Jean Ritchie and other gia nts; sipped icy blue margaritas by her tent at Camp Coho at the Kerrville (Texas) Songwriters' Festival for years, and last yea r was a featured pe rformer there; founded the Washington State Mountain Dulcimer Society; had her song, "Good Road" chosen as the theme song for Northwest Public Radio's Inland Folk Show. She's taught dulcime r for fifteen yea rs and played it for audie nces of from 6 to 6000, from folk clubs to Seattle's symphony ha ll. And the facts te ll, and mean, li ttle. What Heidi Muller on her road is doing is crafting a life of music and amassing a heritage of meaning. They will last, long after her road comes to an end.

There's an. edge out here, I'm flying 10 walk it A story 10 tell, I've been tryillg 10 talk it Facillg illlO the willd all day

You gel a little stronger, climbing this way. -The Edge Living in New Jersey after so many fr ui tful yea rs in Seattle, she is planning her future, and knows there will always

How many times have I given my heart, 0" the wings of a song. How mOllY limes have I made a /lew

star', That didn 't last very long? -Rising Dawn

be a future fo r her in he r music. "Thank heavens for house concert s! We 're real-

ly not in a folk era ri ght now, but the music continues, wheth er mainstream

America pays atte ntion or not. There is continued

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a very strong network of homegrown folkies, and house concerts keep it going. They're close and personal, and involve a lot less effort than going into a club. Most of the time, you don 't need a sound system, and you have 3D to 70 people who really want to see you and listen.

I'm somewhere betweell the old and the !lelV TI)'illg on Ihe faces and heading off to places that I never knelV I dallce between the darkness alld the light that blillds Followillg the allswers I find between the lines. -Between The Lines " My favorite song so far is 'Gypsy Wind.' It's about to come out on a Seattle Folklore Society CD. It came as a surprise, from having time on my hands and sitting in a cafe with a glass of me rlot and writing it on a napkin. It has a sense of mystery abo ut it. "Songs sometimes can change people's lives. Some songs ca n help somebody get through a hard time or give them the answer to a tough question. Sometimes songs move somebody along the path of life, and that makes it wort h it. It gratifies me to know that when I pe rform, ot her people reso nate with the song and a re touched and moved by it. It's communication a nd sharing, and that makes it all worth it. "I've started writing instrumental tunes too. I wrote a waltz one day when a student didn't show up. Next thing I

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knew, I had two jigs! Then anolhe r waltz. I'm beginning to realize I can write new music for dulcimer, not just songs. I hear Ihem in my head as fiddle tunes, and the n I fix them up to work under my fingers. It wou ld be really great to hear one at a dance! We need to reach out to yo unger players and increase our numbers, so we don't become an aging population of players a nd let the dulcimer faU into obscurity! We need to encourage new music to be played on the dulcimer, and take the dulcimer into new places, whether it's adding new frets or playing nontraditional music. Dulcimer music has to be relevant to the player. " What we love about the dulcimer is that it brought something out of us-it made ou r own music come out of us. It gives every player the chance to bring their own music out and have it heard, and everyone should have that opportunity to develop their own expression. We can't take the 60s and repeat them-they're gone. But if we push our local publ ic radio stations to play dulcimer CDs, keep dulcimer growing in ever-new directions and draw in new players with our perfor ming and teaching, the dulcimer will survive and thrive. "This instrument has given me so much beauty-I like to give it back."

The reward iSIl'r only in tlze findillg, It's the steps that you take each day The joy iSIl't always in the thillgs you hold But ill giving back ill some small lVay -Arrowhead Heidi can be contacted at (206) 528-2526, or by email at HeidiMul@AOL.com. For more information, visit her website at www.heidimulle[com.

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by Jeanne Page. Albuquerque, New Mexico

dulcimers?" Does this seem impossible? To the cont rary, it is very do-able. We produce a regular weekly television show here in Albuque rqu e, New Mexico that features not only mountain and hamme red dulcimer, but psaltery, bagpipes, fo lk harp, nyckle harpa, glass armonica (that's right, the spinning glass bowls that Benj amin Franklin inve nted), and lots of ot her fun acoustic instruments. Most important, yo u can do it, too. Your local cable station is requ ired, by law, to provide an opportunity for you, a commun ity member, to use th e air waves for personal, political, religiOUS, etc. expression. We chose to use the opportunity as an educational tool, to teach our community about fo lk music and traditional acousti c instrum ents.

There are many approaches you can take to presenting info rmation about the dulcimer through television. Following are a few o f the ways that we have chosen to highlight both mounta in a nd ha mmered dulcimers:

Beverly Shiver, Camera Operator, aims her camera at Kathy Wimmer on flute.

Whe re di d it come from ? Who played it? What contexts was it used in? What are some inte resting histo rical traditions associated with the instrument? For example, one guest described the quaint use of the "court ing dulcime r," explaining to o ur aud ie nce that no chaperone was necessary for the couple playing the du lcimer as long as the paren ts could hear sweet music. If the music stopped, you co uld bet that ' Daddy' wou ld be there in a jiffy! Following his explanation, we were able to show a video clip of two people playing the courting du lcimer. Thanks to a unique ca me ra shot directly over the heads of the two players, our viewers were able to see the intricate "dance of hands" on the fret board, fi ngers waltzing gracefull y together in synchro ny.

• Demonstrate Styles_ I nvite a va rie ty of guests to demonstrate a trad itional noter style, flatpicking styles, ham meron and pull-off techniques, e tc. for the mountain du lcimer. For th is type of show, onc of our favorite camera shots is a closeup looking straight down the fretboard of the instrument. T his allows us to take our audience right up close to see exactly what the musicia n is doing.

• Feature Individual Local Players_ Over the last year or so we've had four national champions, o ne group of world champions, and several fin alists fro m majo r folk festivals on our television show, a ll pulled from our own local communi ty. Who are the really excellent musicians th at live right in your

own backya rd ? Invite them into the studio to show off their SlUff!

• Teach a ''How-to'' Session_ Have someone give a "mi ni lesson" on the

• The History of the Dulcimer. Bring on a guest who can expla in what is known about the history of the instrume nt.

du lcimer, describing the cliffere nt parts of the instrume nt and explai ning the basics of playi ng.

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• Feature Your Local Dulcimer Club. Recently we brought our entire Apple Mountain Dulcimer Club into the studio and had a great lime filming some of our favorile tunes. • Feature National Performers Traveling Through Your Area. People are always amazed allhe high-level nalional performers we have as guests on our show. For example, Hector Garcia, internationally acclaimed classical guitarist, who has performed as a soloist with some of the finest orchestras in the world, performed on our little Cable Access show. How did we get a musician of such promine nce? We asked. My philosophy is "Just as k- the worst they can say is 'no'." Most of the time, to our surprise, they say "yes," a nd we have had some very memorable shows because of it.

Members of the Apple Mountain Dulcimer Club at the television studio during filming.

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Jeremy Seeger Dulcimers Box 117, Hancock, VT 05748 Tel : 802-767-3790

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• Go Out Into the Field to Report on a Local Event. Take yo ur cameras out of the studio and to a concert, special event or festival, and then edit the footage into a full show. These arc just a few ways to present folk music to your local community, taking the mystery out of the dulcimer through the magic of television. How do you get started? Call your local Com munity Cable Access Chan nel and they' ll walk you through the steps. I was required to take a four-week certification class to learn how to use all of the equipment. I recruited several classmates to be on my crew and talked a few friends and family membe rs into joining me as well. I 'm sure you're wondering: how

much is this going to cost me? The cost to enroll in the class was $35. The cost to use the studio, the control room, the lights, the cameras, sound board, switcher, and all of the equ ipment is FREE. Go back and read that again. Yes, in our community, the usc of the entire television production stud io is completely free. I buy our 12-packs of videotapes at a local cost-saving warehouse so each one costs $1 or so. We use one or two per shoot. There is usually old furniture and cheap styrofoam sets at the studio that anyone can use. We decided to make our own portable set at a cost of about $75. We have some theater background and know a little about making something that looks good to the audience, but it is basically held together with tape and paper clips! We use PVC pipe to construct a frame that we hang long rectangles of folksy material from . Everything breaks down and fits into one duffle bag, so it is easy to transport. We also constructed a window frame, and hang curtains, (using a few props

Adam Page, Audio Operator, adjusts sound levels.

from home to create a "warm , down-

home" feeling) for our host to sit in front of. It's very small, since our TV a udie nce only sees the host from the shou lde rs up. So, it can cost $35 or so to take a class, and a few dollars each time for videotapes-or you can decide to increase the costs a bit to give the show the "Iook u you want. We couldn 't

believe how inexpensive it can be to produce a weekly television show featuring our favorite instrum en ts.

The hidden cost, though, is in time.

lighting, sound, cameras, props, and sets and take steps to make any adj ustments needed for that particular guest. What's the payoff? The fun of actual filming and putting the show together, flippin g on the TV and wa tching yo ur show on the air, getting phone calls from people who say, "I love your show," "I'd never seen one of those things before," or best of all, "I've always wanted to play a dulcimer. How do I get started?" And of course, we're happy to show them how, and welcome them into our big, national dulcimer family. 0

In order to have everything flow smoothly on the day of filming, it requires a huge amount of preparation time. Calling guests, the studio, the crew, the host (and then calling everybody again and agai n, leaving messages, etc.), considering the sound, the lighting, the kinds of camera angles and shots you will take, who will be in which crew position, extra props or equ ipment you will need, etc. requ ires detailed

planning. You must take the time to visualize every step of the process from every possib le pe rspective including

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n o ld Japanese song, but the verse was adapted in the Meiji era. Almost all J apanese believe that this song is traditional. T he score of "Sakura" appeared in So-kyoku shu: Collection of Japanese Koto Music by Tokyo Academy of Music, Japan, published by the Department of Education in 1888. The koto is a long zither, with movable frets.

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Cherry Blossom

and Yasuko Kana began to play the cimbalom. In the 1980s, Atsushi Iguchi organized the Japan Dulcime r Club. The news was published in the DPN's summer issue of 1986. About thirty du lcimer lovers gathe red around Japan. They held Japan Dulcimer Festivals four times until 1989. After 1990, the JDC disappeared. A lot of players may still be active, for example Torno Yamaguchi (www.kcn .nejp/-yamaguch/ index.html) and Masaki Ishii.

Musical groups using dulcimers: • Estrada (Mich io Kawatake, dulcimer) • Hard to Find (Kenji Komatsuzaki, hamme red dulcimer) • Carolan's Cafe (Hiro, hammered dulcimer) • Tablatura (lkuo Kondoh, hammered dulcimer) www. linkclub.or.jp/dowland/Englenglish.html • Catherina Early Music Consort (Tessey Ueno, Santour) www.mmjp. or.jp/robahouse/index. html)

he Japan Dulcimer Society was founded in 1994 around Yasuko Kana. She was one of the fi rst to go to Hungary and study cimbalom wit h Ida Tarjani Toth. Now there are abo ut forty members, including an Iranian santur player, Chinese yang-ch'in players, hackbrett players, and hammered dulcimer players. IDS have held dulcimer concerts in 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a dulcimer festival in J 998. The Heartstrings, located in Tokyo, may now be the only dulcimer club in Japan . It started in 1997, taught by Dave Neiman. The head of the club is Masahiro Maej ima. He attended the Augusta Heritage Center a few yea rs ago. He has a talent for making things and has already made fourteen dulcime rs. Now he is teaching dulcimer building at Shukutoku University. The students have made more than ten du lcimers and are playing them in their band. Two other Heartstrings members went to Augusta; we performed at the dulcimer fest ival in 1998. Now there a re more than twenty members.

Biography I started to play the piano at the age of four, stud ied musicology at Kunitachi College of Music. Since grad uati ng, I have been working for Kunitachi College of Music Library. I joined the club from seeing the dulcimer concert in 1997, and performed in 1998. Since 1999 I've been secretary for Heartstrings. I would like to search for tunes that could be played on diatonic hammered dulcimers, especia lly 12/11, and would like to arra nge tunes for 12/11. But recently I have been more eager to research dulcimer history than play the dulcimer.

miwatasu kagiri Kasumi ka kuma ka, lIioi zo izuru

Izaya izayo, miniyukan "Cherry blossoms. T here are a lot of mists in the March sky, as if they came from smells of flowers. Let's go to see cherry blossoms." In 1923, Michio Miyagi ( 1894-1956), a famo us composer and player, composed "Sakura Variations" for three kotos (one 17-stringed koto and two 13stringed kotos). The first two bars of my version( a-a-b-e-c-b-a-a-b-e-c-b) are borrowed from Miyagi's 1st Variation.

Dulcimer Players in Japan Accord ing to New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians , the Chinese dulcimer did reach Japan. But it couldn't survive through the years. Chinese music called Min-Shin-Gaku has decreased. We cannot find the yo-kin (Japanese yang-ch'in) now. The only museum piece is a ya- u-kin in the Tokugawa art museum in Nagoya. The ya-ukin may be o ne of the musical inst rume nts of Min-Shin-Gaku performed in the Ryukyu dynasty in the

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In the 1970s, Keiji Azami began to play the dulcimer as a studio musician ,

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ary Smith of Vine Grove, Kentucky read a story in the May-July 2000 issue of the Dulcimer Players New about a bill being submitted to the Michigan Senate which would name the hamme red dulcimer the official instrument of Michigan. She found that very interesting. (On March 30, 2001, o n the opening day of the Ohio Valley Gathe ring sponsored by the Louisville Dulcimer Society, it was learned from Ga il Schwa ndt, author of the DPN article, that the bill

did not pass and it is not the o ffi cia l state instrument. In the hearts of Michigan hammered dulcime r playe rs, however, it is!) Soon after, Mary was with her friend, Senator Elizabe th Tori, a nd me ntioned the article and the thought that the Appalachian dulcimer should be the offici al musical instrument of Ke ntucky. Senator Tori did not know if Ke ntucky did indeed have a n officia l state musical instrume nt. T he subject changed and nothing more on the subject was d iscussed that day.

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On June 27th Mary wrote to Se nator Tori a nd e nclosed a copy of the Dulcimer Players News article. In the letter she aga in mentioned that it would be appropriate for the Appalachia n dulcimer to be the official Kentu cky musical instrument. She spoke of Jean Ritchie and he r tre mendous influe nce in keeping the dulcimer alive and well. Meanwhile the Legislative Research Committee was checking on the exis-

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tenee, if any, of a stat e instrumen t. Mary stated that she was sure that dulcimer players wo uld show up in Frankfort e n-masse on "the day." In July, Mary received a fax from Senator Tori stating that the Bill Draft had been comple ted and that it would be pre-filed so that it would be presented in the early portion of the 2001 Session. Mary sent Senator Tori a copy of Jean Ritchie's The Dulcimer Book, historical information obtained from the intern et and an article about H omer

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for abou t forty-five minu tes. A greeting address was given by Senator Tori to the playe rs and other guests during the performa nce. She extended an invitation for the hearing of Senate Bi ll 5 when the Senate convened a t 2:00 p.m. that day. Kind wo rds of enthusiasm were offered by Senator Tori on the Sena te floor on behalf of the Appalac hian dulcimer a nd its history. She gave special recognition to Homer Ledford (who was in the Gallery), Warren May, and Jean Ritchie. It was also noted that Jean Ritchie had donated one of he r primitive dulcimers to be placed in the capital city History Museum. Senate Bill 5 named the Appalachian dulcimer as the Musical Instrument of Kentucky and it passed the Senate 38-0. On March 8th the bill passed the House with a vote of 94-l. On March 23rd approximately fifty people again re turned to the rotunda with dulcimers in hand to witness the signing of Senate Bill 5 by Governor

Dulcimer players gather in the rotunda of the capitol building.

Paul Patton. After the sign ing, dulcimer players acco mpanied by Senator Tori gathe red on the marble steps near the rotunda and played "My Old Kentucky Home" and several other popular fo lk tunes. On March 30th Mary Smith and Sen-

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The Art of Performing by Steve Schneider

Listen to This First in a series of articles on listening

student recently surprised me by including "learn to listen " in a list of her musical goals. Listening is not something we all do equally well, and for some it certainly requires both learning and practici ng. And, no matte r how well we already listen, we can all learn to listen better in many ways. Hearing is defined as becoming awa re through the sensation of sound . Listening

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what you hear. Not everyone who hears listens. A significant part of a musician's training involves honing listening skills, for it's mostly through our ears that we gather the data of music, organize it, a nd the n strum or hammer it out. It's through o ur ears that we find the perspect ive in which we place ourselves in relati on to oth er musicians, to ourselves, and to our audience. Part of

what makes one pe rson a differe nt musician from the next is simply her/his ability to understand and lise what s/he hears. The information we receive through our miraculous ears gives us the feedback necessary to present music to others, to play with others, and to apprecia te the music of others. It also gives us the opportunity to hear ourselves and to know ourselves in various

and meaningful ways. It was listening that brough t you to the dulcimer initially, since you fell in love with the sound of the instrument. The siren ca ll of the du lcime r's unique timbre was equally importa nt as the part icular music you heard being played the fi rst time yo u encountered a nd were

all is well until someone asks you to play something. Suddenly, fas ter than the snitch in a Quidditch match (read any Harry Potter book to get this reference), all the wonder and joy of the du lcimer is gone a nd a ll yo u feel is the desire to disappear since you can't even recall the names of any of the tunes yo u play and, if yo u could, you certainly couldn 't remember how they even start! At home, in the safety of

hooked by it. For many of us it was love at first listen. I'm sure that most of you can recall that moment you first heard and we re captivated by your particular dulcimer flavor (mountain or hamme red). But then, as wi th many first loves, as the initial tbrill began to wea r off, the essential beauty of the instrument began to be less satisfying as you became morc aware of your own limitations and more critical of you r playing. No longer happy with just the essence of the instrument, you r awareness now

focused on your Shortcomings as manifested by, of a ll th ings, yo ur mistakes.

0 , here you are, so swept away, overcome and intoxicated by beauty that you plunk down hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars and begin spending precious leisure hours (when you could be watching TV a nd eating bonbons) getting acq uainted with and lea rning to master th is instrument. Life has new meaning a nd you begin to adopt a new persona-you're now a du lcimer player. Hooray! And

room, yo u play quite beautifully-some of you cla im to play perfectly at home. There, you can commune with higher powers through your music as you reach new he ights of expression and beauty. But playing for another person alters your perception so much that you lose every shred of yo ur own artistry and the most creative thing you can do is to come up with excuses why you play so badly or why you shouldn't play at all ri ght now. For those of you who can't relate to this, consider yourself remarkably lucky, since many, if not most, of us have struggled with this on a nd off to one degree or anothe r. So what happened, and where did that initia l joy and wonder go? It seems that we began to foc us more on ourselves than on the incredible beauty of the du lcimer and the music. We can easily forget the reasons why we play the dulcimer, how much we love to play the instrument. Instead of marveling at the miracle of the sounds we can creatc,

however simple or simplistic they may seem, we cringe at the me re possibility of making mistakes, having to make excuses for our playing, our poor memo-

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ry, or for ourselves. Suddenly the music is denied and our creativity is thwarted. Somehow we need to ge t out of our own way. People who suffer from musicrelated anxious feelings and experiences can get beyond them in many ways using different techniques, some of which I've described in past articles. O ne of the more important things to do is to play music for others more regularly. Over time, action overcomes feelings and dispels notions of inadequacy. Miracles can occur when we can ste p aside to allow the music to How, and that's when beauty is nourished. But what about listening? Listening is essentia l to the process. Listen to your own music, to yo ur hea rt, to th e feedback yo u receive ( and give), and try to liste n to the indescribable beauty of elegant sim plicity. A fiddle tune, nursery rhyme, or Christmas carol played slowly and well is full of great potency and magic. The same tune pl ayed too fast with lots of impressive doodads loses its meaning and its beauty.

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Good listening takes practice and patience, two luxuries in these hectic days of entangleme nt in the wwweb of life in 200 I. On one level, listening can be a relatively passive and unconscious business in the same ways that speaking and looki ng can be. Passive listening can be pure ly pleasant (listening to music in the background), informative (listening to the news), social (listening to a fri e nd talk), and m a ny uther lhings.

We' re aware of what we hea r, we respond to it, but we're not necessarily trying to un derstand its process.

n music, active liste ning involves an attempt to unravel the mysteries of what you hear for the purpose of graspi ng how it works and gaining greater unde rstanding. This can lead to a n ability to do many things, such as playing by ear, harmo ni zing, accompanying, playing variations, re-

arranging and in terpreting music, and composing.

Actively listening to a piece of music can yield vast amounts of useful information, such as its key, the particular intervals that make up its melodies, its meter, the qualities of its harmonies (major, minor, etc.), its fo rm and phrasing, its articulation (nuances in how it's played), and more. A good and experienced active listener will be able to describe the music and how it's played, and possibly to be able to play it back. A good sightreader will be able to do this from merely looking at the printed music. These are all skills that can be learned, and any conservatory-hatched musician has spent ample time in classes such as ear-training, sight-reading, and sight-singing, all activities that e nhance listening skills. In the next article, we'll explore particular ways to enhance listening. In the meantime, keep your ears open, and forward any feedback abo ut this or any musical issues to me at PO Box 34, Congers, NY 10920, or performi ng@steveschneider. com. And stay in tune. 0

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More Uvety Tune Embellishments believe that tunes can easily be over-embellished. Arrangers of traditional music nee.d to avoid the "67 Embellishments in Search of a Tune" syndrome. A nu mbe r of the most common hamme red dulcimer embellishments work only ra rely in the context of a lively tune. Usually, the tune's moving way too fast for elaborate additions. One solution is to remove some o f the melody notes. Don't do this until yo u've played the tune th rough at least once. And, don't do it so much that the tune is irretrievably lost. "The White Cockade" has a long and glorious history. It can be traced back to the 17th century. No one knows how much older tha n that it really is. Flood says it's e ntitled "The White Cockade" because of the words, written by Gerailt in refe rence to a the n-p revale nt fas hio n of white-ribboned plumes worn by the ladies of Mu nster on festive occasions. Baya rd states it was originally e ntitled "The Lad with the White Cockade," from words of an 18th-ce ntu ry Jacobite song, rewritten by Burns. Bayard calls it "markedly Scottish" in character, first published as "a Scots tune" in Playfo rd. Flood says it's Irish, appropriated later by the Scottish people. Flood goes on to say that it was one of the two tunes played by the wa r pipers of the Irish Brigade at Fontenoy on May 11, 1745. This was probably the last appearance in battle of Irish wa r pipes. It's also a great tune with which to expe riment re moving "standard" tune notes and replacing them with notes from the chord being played at that time. [ suggest you try taking out the first three beats of the second, fo urth, and sixth full measures in the ''P(' section. What about the second 2 two beats in the seventh full measure in A? T he fi rst three beats in P(s ending 2? The first three beats in the second and fo urth fu ll measures in the "B" section? Removing ALL the melody notes in the seventh full measure in B? T he first three beats of e nding 1 in B? The fu ll ending 2 in B? I've included some suggestions for substitute notes in these White Cockade measures. Just eliminate notes in one measure, go to the "fi ll-ins," and pick one that fi ts the num ber of beats and chord you need (the letter names above the notes indicate chord suggestions.) . Have fun - make up othe r fill-in s of your own. Then, Itsten to make certain you can still hear the melody. Do you need to take out a few of the substi tutions? Suit yourself. "After all is said and done, usually more is said than done." Q uestions? Suggestions? 309 Pennsylvania, Denton, TX 76205; Ilt6@earthlink. net. 0

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Baker's Dozen #9, My First Dulcimer Book. Shelley Stevens , Tweetw ater Prod uctio ns, 643 E. Euclid Ave., Springfield, OH 45505, shellystevens@ musician.org (Book) • Shelley'S ninth book in her Baker's Dozen series is subt itled Tunes for Childre n. T he thirteen tunes range from Mary Had a Little Lamb to A Place in the Choir (a. k.a. All God's Childre n) and will serve kids and beginni ng ad ults. The arrange ments are both simple and fun , featurin g both standa rd notatio n and mountain dulcim er TAB in D-A-D tuning. Laughing Willow· Bonnie Carol, 15 Sherwo od Road, Nederland, CO 80466, (303) 258-7763, www.BonnieCarol.com (Book/ CD/Ca ssette) • An a utobiog rap hical, all-inst rume ntal celeb ratio n wi th the hamme red dulcim er in the lead, Laughing Willow covers an array of Celtic and American music. Bonnie is accomp an ied by piano, guitar, wind chimes , glockenspiel, Buddhi st mo nks, and nature' s sounds, includin g birds, bull frogs, and the ocean. It is newly reissue d in CD and now has a songbo ok of the tunes fro m the recording arra nged for hamme red and fretted dulcimer. Other cassette s and LPs by Bo nnie have also been recentl y reissue d in CD format.

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