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Saw a man play this instrument in Missouri one time, his name was John. Wrote and played his own tunes. A very rare, unique and enormous talent. Was wondering about other dulcimer players.
1 posted on 04/27/2024 9:16:42 PM PDT by kawhill
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As a drummer I always wanted one. Found several plans back when to build your own. Never got to play one though.


2 posted on 04/27/2024 9:18:45 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Amazing instrument. Here's a talented young man playing it...

Scarborough Fair | Pure Hammered Dulcimer | Joshua Messick

3 posted on 04/27/2024 9:20:39 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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You need to listen to Rich Mullins music.


4 posted on 04/27/2024 9:23:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Rich Mullins songs:

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=rich+mullins+hammered+dulcimer+songs+


5 posted on 04/27/2024 9:29:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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BTW, great article. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 04/27/2024 9:32:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Here's one from a guy named Tony Elman. Saw him live back in the late 80s.

Arkansas Traveller/Sailor's Hornpipe

7 posted on 04/27/2024 9:35:27 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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You’ll want to check out Trapezoid - a quarted of hammered dulcimer players!

https://youtu.be/vvURRnpDHjs


9 posted on 04/27/2024 9:57:20 PM PDT by bigbob
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A friend of mine in college made a plucked mountain dulcimer as a project for a music course. Being brilliant, he also learned to play it quite well and aced the course.


10 posted on 04/27/2024 10:23:57 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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John Jacob Niles sang in a high falsetto and played Appalachian dulcimers which he made himself. His recordings were often very haunting.


11 posted on 04/27/2024 10:35:35 PM PDT by punchamullah
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Give a listen to ‘Little Black Star’ by Niles.


12 posted on 04/27/2024 10:41:03 PM PDT by punchamullah
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Give a listen to ‘Little Black Star’ by Niles.


13 posted on 04/27/2024 10:42:24 PM PDT by punchamullah
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Check out Joemy Wilson.


15 posted on 04/27/2024 10:49:50 PM PDT by Jim Hill
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Franz Liszt in some passages of the Hungarian Rhapsodies emulates the sound of the hammer dulcimer which was known as the cimbalom at that time.


17 posted on 04/28/2024 1:00:09 AM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw;
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
22 posted on 04/28/2024 9:51:06 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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I’ve seen a handful of excellent players. Actually, Bruce Hornsby played on one of his tunes, including during live performance years ago, I think it’s “The Red Plains”. I saw him do it the first time I saw him years ago, but, uh, disclaimer because of failing memory. :^o


23 posted on 04/28/2024 3:33:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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