2001-02, Dulcimer Players News Vol. 27 No. 2 by Dulcimer Players News

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* Origin of the Hammered Dulcimer. Part Two * Southwest Dulcimer Festival * Steve Schneider * Mean Tone Temperament for Fretted Dulcimer * The Linear Chromatic Dulcimer * Jacob Ray Melton

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DUWMm PlHymS N[WS Volume 27, Number 2

Contents

Networking

Letters To Us

Dulcimer Clubs

News & Notes

Events

Technical Dulcimer· Sam Rizzetta

• Madeline MacNeil, Publisher/Editor Tabby Finch, Ed~orial Assistant Post Office Box 2164 Winchester, Virginia 22604

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The Secret Garden of Steve Schneider· Sam Edelston

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The Linear Chromatic' Steve Schneider

The Origin of the Hammered Dulcimer (Part 1/) • Nicholas Blanton

Mountain Dulcimer Tilles & Traditions' Ralph Lee Smith

First Annual Southwest Dulcimer Festival ' Robert Force

Musical Reviews' Neal Walters

Hammered Dulcimer' Linda Lowe Thompson

Mountain Dulcimer History· Ralph Lee SrNth

Rock the Cradle, Joe

Hammered Dulcimer History· Paul Gifford

Pal Sine Honer' Arranged Esther McAfee

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Eurotunes • DavId Moore

Whats New' Neal Walters

Dulcimers in Cyberspace ·1IJ1I Glazener

Advertiser Index

The Art of Performing· Steve Schneider

Unclassifieds

Eurotunes • David T Moore The Fox' Arranged David T Moore

• Columnists Technical Dulcimer· Sam RIzzetta Hammer Dulcimer· Uncia Lowe Thompson

What's NewlMusical Reviews Neal Walters

Profiles Rosamond Canpbell

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week ago it snowed. Four days ago it was in the sixt ies. It's a typical Winchester, Virginia February. I, being my typical self, am looking for signs of spri ng under my feet, in the air, in the sunrise-and in the burgeoning Events Calendar found in this issue of Dulcimer Players News. I've been know to squawk when the wind makes me pu ll the winter coat back out of the closet (I'm the last one to put on a coat in the winter and the first one to put it away). I get befuddled at the office when events details, such as a contact address or even the dates, are changed mid-stream. But, encouraged by the notices about brave January and February festivals, I delight in the gatherin g of information of spring and summe r events: the promise of music in the outside air as well as inside, and the promise of spring beneath my feet once more. By now you're probably accustomed to my feelings about winter. Many of you have told me about life cycles, the necessity of the earth resting in the cold, the absolute fun of rolling downhill on a trash can lid with the snow finding its way into your nose and ears, and of my need to "get used to it." I listen politely, then work once more on the Events Calendar for the spring DPN, and I dream . Following is part of an essay I wrole in March, 2000.

â&#x20AC;˘ Promises It is March 9th and the weat her is warm a nd balmy. Teeshirts are the preferred dress of the day and many people in shorts display winter-hidden legs. The excitement rises as daffodils and crocuses, invisible a week ago, show their faces. It is spring! Well, no, it isn't. Weathercasters warn with furrowed eyebrows, "There is snow in the plains and the cold will move

east into this area. The warm, sunny days are numbered." Anticipation tells me to put up the hammock in the backyard; logic tells me to forget it right now. There is snow in the plains, you know. Soon we, wearing long-sleeved shirts and sweaters, will reminisce: " What did you do on March 9t h?" I can tell you what I'm doing on March 10th. I'm going to purchase a table and some chairs for the deck, for I've been promised. Yes, the snow in the plains will push colder weather our way. In yea rs past we've had snow ourselves later than this, including a blizzard just about this time. But soon the glorious May days in the Shenandoah Valley wi ll arrive a nd they will stay. Leaves and flowers will delight us until the senses fill and wearing a tee-shirt will not seem so daring and unusual. Today's weather is a dramatic promise; most years it is more like a hint. But the promise is always there, be it the first robin to perch on a branch in the backyard or the last patch of snow melting in the shadow of the front porch.

â&#x20AC;˘ I don't really do a comparison from year to year, but the number of dulcimer festivals seems to have grown once more. O ne day, three days, week-long, East Coast, West Coast, Midwest: your choice. I hope you'll pull out your cale ndar, heat some water for tea, sit at the kitchen window or on the front porch, and make your plans. Here in the DPN office it's nice to know we're sending you a promise! Duicimerrily,

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Dear DPN: I am seeking information on my deceased grandmother, Kitty Cora Cline, from Sumner County, Tennessee. She was the first woman soloist to play on the Grand Old Opry and played a hammered dulcimer. Richard Hulan, a Smithsonian Institution field representative and Vanderbilt professor, wrote an article about hammered dulcimers and talked about my grandmother, who played the dulcimer for him and whom he interviewed personally while she was in her nineties. The dulcimer was made

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on. Usually I make the dulcimers from hardwoods, however. I also created a n adjustable table to be fitt ed to wheelchairs, to rest a dulcimer on. I created an instrument out of the back of an electric organ-I call it a Duo Dulcimorgan and am teaching a frie nd, Mary Krueger, to play on one side of it so we can play together. I have also built a thumb piano using the tines from an old lawn rake; and a psalmalodica, after seeing one in a music store. This has only one string. Not knowing how to play it I think I'll conve rt it to a 4-string dulcimer. Well, this is what keeps a 75-year-old lady out of muschief!

Lorraine Dunn 435 3rd Ave. NW Winnebago, MN 56098 5507-893-4470 Dear DPN: I have built many types of dulcimers. The fretted box dulcime r has a historical precenl. Some early ones found in Appalachia were box rather than hou rglass- or teardrop-shaped. The first dulcimers I made were hourglass-shaped. The surfaces of the box dulcimer serve as perfect areas to

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smaller th路a n full-size and have a more limited range. I build a rectangular box around the dulcimer, allowing [or spaces to store hamme rs, pitch pipe, and tuning wre nch. One of the delightful things about building a folk musical instrument is that you can fee l free-within limitsexperimenting with different shapes, woods, finishes, etc. I like acanthus leaf designs for much of my carved decoration on instruments. However, I also use chip carving and combinations of the two. I modify existing designs as well as create my own.

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Spring 2001 • 5

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From the November 2000 issue of Keepin' Tabs, the newsletter of Michigan's Paint Creek Folklore Society.

I need your help! During the time it took me to learn how to modify text (festivals and events) on our website, I became confused keeping work completed/work in progress/Maddie errors, all organized. Please check yo ur club listing a nd, even if YOll've a lready told me one or six times, let me know if I need to change something on the website. Thanks,

My wife, Jackie, re-taught me a valuable lesson last summer. She is an artist and an art teacher and a joy to be around because we share (and don't share) a lot of ideas about what art is and isn't. Her ideas are graphic and visually based, and are sharpened by her formal training. Mine are auditory and much less structured, as my musical training has been mostly selftaught experimentation. She sat me down at a potter's wheel and taught me to throw a pot. I had tried this rwenty-five years ago and found it daunt-

ing. However, with her patient guidance, some personal

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patience I didn't have twenty-five years ago, and a focused period of uninterrupted time, I managed to throw a decent pot. I loved looking at it. I loved the touch of it. I loved watching the shape cbange as I learned how subtle changes in my hand position would change the clay. I actually had to force myself to stop molding and shaping and decide it was "time to call it a pOL" Eve n after it dried, this love affair continued as I smoothed and sanded and prepared it for firing. It was the firing that brought my head back down out of the clouds. My little pot did not survive the heat. I was semi-surprised when I was not saddened by this loss of my little pot. I was actually buoyed by the act of having done it. The shards are my mementos of a journey which gave me a lot of satisfaction. When I play an instrument, reminded by this pottery episode, the value is often more in the playing than in the tune that comes out. I love the sounds that come from an instrument as I play. I love the touch of it on my hands and fingers. I love hearing the shape of the tune and how the sounds change as the instrument reacts to changes in my hand positions or how I stroke the vibrating strings. If I am playing with someone else, I love listening to what they are doing to merge their efforts with my own as I decide how to merge with them. I always have to remind myself when it is time to stop molding and shaping. Music is art. More specifically, it is performance art. You can record the music or write it down. But those are the products of several processes. First, there is the process of composing the music, molding the music, which has its own personal rewards for the composer. Then there is the performance process, a unique recreation (a re-molding) of the original with its own characteristics brought by the performer(s) and the environment. And finally, there is the listening processwhich brings the hopes and anticipations and expectations of the audience into the mix. Just as with the clay, I encourage each of you to love listening to your own playing and to love the tactile feel of your instrument. Learn to love hearing the musical shape change as you make subtle changes in your interaction with your instrument. When you are done and put your instrument down, the sound of the music may stop, but you will continue to grow musically and spiritually.

Dan /'louse

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News & Notes In December, Wood and Soul hammermaker Jeannie Tomanica retired. For many years one would see Jeannie in her booth at festivals showing her unique hammers to intrigued dulcimer players. Her interests are varied and conversations were never dull. She and her husband will be traveling more now, and Jeannie will not have time to run a catalogue business. For years to come, however, her hammers will be part of the obligatory tools for many a dulcimer player. Mountain dulcimer players, familiar or not with III Search Of The Wild Dulcimer (written by AI D'Ossche a nd Robert Force in the 1970's), are encouraged to visit www.robertforce. com/wilddu lcimer/. The classic book, now out of print, is available online. (Thanks to The Noter, newsletter of the Mountain Dulcimer Society of Dayton, for sharing this information with DPN.)

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MEMORIAM

Carl Davis of Braxton County, West Virginia, died on November 24th, 2000. Carl was the first traditional dulcimer player I ever met. However that wasn' t his only skill, as he also played the fiddle and banjo mandolin, called dance figures, raised and chased fox hounds, fixed clocks, did blacksmith work, made dulcimers, farmed, told stories and kept those around him in good humor. Through Carl, I met his brother, John, a dulcimer player and fiddle maker. Their father brought an old dulcimer home when they were small children. Carl remembered that his mother would sit him up on the middle of a bed so he could "pound away on it." Carl remained connected to the "delcimer," (as he pronounced it) and its music for the rest of his life. When he died, he had two instruments under construction and he had recently made a courting dulcimer, with a double fingerboard, his first in that style. Carl regularly participated in the Augusta Heritage Center's music workshop programs. He used the traditional "pick and noter" method. The player holds a pick in one hand and a hickory "noter" in the other, which runs along the first string and plays the melody notes. Carl mostly played fiddle tunes that he learned from his father and other community sources, but be played some hymns as well. While he usually called the instrument a "delcimer," he and brother John occasionally referred to it as a "hog harp." Because the dulcimer was never in a popular movement until the last forty or fifty years, and with no media coverage to solidify one name, various terms abound among those who grew up with the tradition. As a true folk instrument that for the most part was homemade, size, shape, and construction also varies widely in different Appalachian regions where the instrument was known. Carl's old family instrument was somewhat akin to what is known as the "Huntington pattern," but had its differences. Whether it was at an all-night fox chase, a square dance, a music session, or just a neighborly visit when taking myoid mantel clock to him for a checkup, I don't know many others who could fit into, and significantly add to, all of those situations as Carl did. He had an old-time fun-loving spirit about him. He also had a "gift for gab." During various visits with Carl he told me to "throw my hat in the fire, spit on the bed, sit down on my fist, lean back against my thumb, and make myself at home." He said that if I was hungry he could make something in ten minutes that would take over an hour to eat! If I didn't have money to pay for the clock, "we could just charge it to the dust and let the rain settle it." He said that I should stay the night, but they didn't have enough beds so he'd just bang me by my collar on a peg. Then he'd laugh and wink, and we would play another tune.

Gerry Milnes [Ed. Note: In 1992, Gerry Milnes produced an Augusta Heritage Recording, The West Virginia Hills, that featured Carl and four other Central West Virgi.nia traditional players (AHR 011). People who have a direct connection to a living dulcimer tradition are rare in the Appalachian region and unknown elsewhere . Four of the five artists on that 1992 recording have passed on. This recording is available through the Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins WV 26241, 304-637-1209, augusta@augustaheritage.com.] A good friend of the dulcimer community, Walter Clark, affectionately known by his friends as Fluffy, passed away on January 11th. Walt and his wife, Marion, traveled to dulcimer and autoharp gatherings from Maine to Tennessee over the last twenty years.

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hOBgOBLln-sLone;y eon Makers and sellers of fine musical instruments Lee Hellman, aged 92, died in December. For many yea rs Lee owned only a cardboard mountain dulcimer, and whe n someone would show an interest in learning, he wou ld give them his dulcimer and purchase a new one. Lee was a member of the Clarion (PA) Dulcimer Club. He taught after-school classes in mountain dulcimer playing at the Clarion Ele mentary School. He gave similar lessons to the Project Helping H ands Class at Clarion High School, a class of mentally and physically handicapped stude nts, and for this he received the Outstanding Service-Learning Volunteer of the Year Award in 1996.

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Events April ~ay 4 • Danville, KY Dulcimer Rendezvous at the Un. of Kentucky Leadership Center. Beginning through advanced classes (MD and other instruments). Info: Rodi Jackson, 11 Charleston Greene, Danville KY 40422,606-238-7742, jacksons@mis.net.

May 4-5 • Winston-Salem, HC Winston-Salem Dulcimer Festival. Classes and concerts featuring MD, HD. Info: Jeff Sebens, PO Box 616, Meadows of Dan, VA 24120.540-952-1865. www.meadows-music.com.

May 4-6 • Cambridge, MA Spring Dulcimer Festival at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (56 Brattle St.). Workshops (MD, HD), concerts, open mike. Info: Cambridge Center for Adult Education, PO Box 9113, Cambridge, MA 02238-9113. 617-547-6789.

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May 4-i • West Salem, OK Spring Fling Campout at Town & Country Camp Resort. Workshops, jamming,

EVENTS CALENDAR DEADLINES

"Suicide Stew" supper. Info: Bernice Campbell, 288 Adario W. Rd., Shiloh, OH 44878. 419-896-2808.

Events from the 1st weekend of Nov. through the 2nd weekend of Feb. Deadline: August 1st

May 5 • Columbus, OH Central Ohio Dulcimer Festival. Workshops for MD, HO, guitar, mandolin, banjos. Evening concert. Info: Andy Beyer,614-846-1779.

May 5-6 • Claremont, CA C S laremont pring Folk Festival. Stage concerts, workshops (MD, HD), State HD Contest, dancing, and crafts. Info: SASE to CSFF, 8755 La Vine St., Alta Lorna, CA 91701. 909-987-5701. doug.thomson2@gte.net.

May 11-13· Glen Rose, TX Lone Star State Dulcimer Festival at

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Events from the 1st weekend of Aug. through the 2nd weekend of Nov.

Oakdale Park. Contests for MD and HO players, arts and crafts fair, workshops, and concerts. Info: Dana Hamilton, 904 Houston, Arlington, TX 76012. 817-275-3872.

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The Gathering at Spring Mill A Dulcimer Event Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell, IN 47446

May 25, 26, 27, 2001

May 12, 2001

Ripley, Ohio Ripley Elementery School

1 :00 pm to 9:00 pm

Featuring:

Maggie Sansone, Ken Kolodnet; Karen Ashbrook, Tina Bergman, Mollie Freibert, Joyce Harrison, Les Gustafson-look, Fran Booth, Madge Moore, Paul Dotts, Ann & Phil Case, Lee Rowe, Tull Glazener, Maureen Sellers, linda Brockinton, Lois Hornbostel, David Schnaufer.

Jean Ritchie, Dick "Richard" Albin, The Kentucky Standard Band, Maureen Sellers, Fred Meyers, & others

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Concerts, Workshops, & Jam Sessions Afternoon & Evening Activities

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HD, MD, Autoharp, Guitar, Singing 3 Jam Rooms!!! Concerts on Saturday & Sunday Early BirdJam on Friday night

Normal Park entrance fees apply:

$2.00 in state • $5.00 out of state This is an outdoor event, so please dress for the weather, bring a lawn chair, and a picniC lunch!

melbarb@bright.net Download a flyer at: www.RIVERSONGMUSICSHOPPE.C;QM

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Presented by

For more information, call

River Song Music Shoppe

812 849-4129

7 North 2nd Street, Ripley, Ohio 45167

Sponsored by The Friends of the Mill, DNR, BAAC and many local businesses.

937-392-9274-

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FeaturingNo Strings Attached Susan Trump Cindy Ribet Anne Lough Jeff Sebens Tammy Sawyer & others II

September 7-9, 2001 Workshops, Classes and Conarts ftaturing the hammered dulcimer In historic Shepherdstown. WV Over 40 diff mnt workshops at all kvds, rental instruments available.

www.meadows-music.com Or contact Jeff Sebens at

Su our web site at www.intrepid.net/-blanton/ Or call (04) 263-2531

540-952-1865

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MID-EASTERN REGION AL DULCIMER CHAMPIONSHIPS (Hammered (:, Mountain) G uitar. mountain 6 hammered dulcimer. harp 6 bowed psalte ry workshops Dulcimer Club Play·off

27th Annual

Voca l 6 duet contests

S aturday N ight Conccrt featuring Karen Ashbrook 6 Jam Sessio ns Sunday Gospel Sing Dulcimer and Music E xhibitors

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May 12 • Chattanooga, TN Dulcimer Day at Patten Arts Center. Mt. Dulcimer championship. Workshops (MD & HD), jamming and performance. Vendors welcome. Info: Joe Ridolfo, 1885 Chattanooga Valley Road, Flintstone, GA 30725. 706-820-0275. amercier@bellsouth.net

May 1&-19 • San Juan River, UT Moons and lImes. Rive r running, desert strolling, camping-and music. Professional guides, boats, gourmet food provided. Info: Bonnie Carol, 15 Sherwood Rd., Nederland CO 80466, 303-258-7763. www.BonnieCarol.com.

May 12 • Kinston, NC Water bound Dulcimers Mountain Dulcimer Workshop and concert. Info: Ron Cyr, 902 Cameron Dr., Kinston NC 28501, 252-523-8709. roncyr@juno.com.

May 18-20 • Coshocton, 011 27th Annual Dulcimer Days at Historic Roscoe Village. Mid-Eastern Regional Dulcimer Championships (MO, HD), workshops, jamming, exhibits, sales, concert. Info: Roscoe Village Foundation, 381 Hill St., Coshocton, OH 43812.740-622-9310 or 800-877-1830. www.roscoevillage.com.

May 12 • Mitchell, IN The Gathering at Spring Mill Concerts, workshops (HD, MO), jam sessions. Info: Rita Jackson, Spring Mill State Park, P.O. Box 376, Mitchell, IN 47446. 812-849-4129.

May 12 • Hillsboro, Al Mallard Creek Jam sponsored by Morgan County Dulcime r Association. MD jamming. Camping reservations: 256-637-6080. Further info: Jan He nderson, jhcndersonal@msn.com.

HAMMERED

May 18-19 • Florence, Al Tennessee River Dulcimer Festival at Flore nce-Lauderdale Coliseum, Veteran's Drive. Jamming, ope n stage, sales

booths. Camping sites and motels avai lable. Info: Dwayne Posey, 597 Co. Road 224, Florence AL 35634, 256-764-2427.

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RETREAT

on the peaceful shores of

Moons & Tunes with

BONNIE CAROL Moons and tunes, notes and boats: join us for our third annual musical wilderness adventure. All the wonder of river running , desert strolling and warm riverside camping in combination with music in starlit, sand ampitheaters; the camaraderie of a music camp and a river trip all rolled into one. Come with dulcimers and guitars, flutes and whistles, accordions and voices - or come to boat and listen· all are welcome. Bring your camping get up, your smiles and your friends, and we'll bring professional guides, boats, gourmet food and whatever specialized river equipment you need. No river running experience is necessary. We'll run the archaeologically rich San Juan River in the SE corner of Utah May 16 ·19 (trip cost $425 . 4 days), and Labyrinth Cayon of the Colorado River I n Utah just north of Canyonlands National Park June 19·23 ($450 - 5 days). Get in touch for an itinerary.

May &June 2001 Bonnie@BonnieCarol.com www.BonnieCarol.com

15 Sherwood Road

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See You in Cullowhee! It won't be long until the Catamount Gap rings with the sweet sounds of the mountain dulcimer and friends gather for good musical times and the best in mountain dulcimer classes.

The Staff R ALPH LEE S MITH

JEAN RITCHIE

J ANITA B AK ER KENNETH BLOOM

R OB BRERETON

K AREN M UELLER

BILL T AYLOR

BETTY S MITH

W AYN E S EYMOUR

MADELINE M AC NEIL

L OIS H ORN BOSTEL

CLIFFORD GLENN

A NNE L OUGH

J OHN HURON

JERRY R OCKWELL

M IKE A NDERSON

J IM MILLER

R ON E WING

GEORG E H AGGE RTY

S TEPH EN K. S MITH

C ARILYN V ICE

G WEN OGLESBY

J OE SHELTON

J OHN STOCKARD

TERRY LEWIS

T HE TRANTHAM F AMI LY

S TEPHEN S EI FERT

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Events and Classes • Nine Morning Playing Skills Courses (12 contact hours)

• Dulcimer-Building Course

• Special Course: "Appalachian Dulcimer History and Traditional Music"

• Dulcimer Orchestra

• Two Evening Faculty Concerts • Dulcimer Marketplace • Economical Tuition, Meals and On-Campus Housing

• Sixty Afternoon Sessions

• Barbecue Buffet and Get-Acquainted Party • Scholarships • Daytime and Evening Jam Sessions

New This Year Lots of Comfortable Evening Jam Space, New Housing Options, Cafeteria Close to Residence Halls, More Participant "Open Stage" Opportunities

For your WCU Mountain Dulcimer Week Catalog and Registration Form contact: Continuing Education and Summ er School, Western Carolina Un iversity, 138 O utreach Center, C ullowhee, NC 28723. Phone (828) 227·7397 . E-mail: hensley@wcu.edu, or visit our webpage at h t tp://cess.wcll.edu/conted/dulcimer. For inform at ion on curricul um and sraffi ng. contact Lo is Hornbostel, Mountain Dulci mer Wee k director, at P.O. Box 907, Bryson C ity, NC 28713 , or e- mail Ldulc@gte.net. Please do not reprint or redistribute without permission. Contact dpn@dpnews.com.

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May 18-19' Summersville, MO Flop Eared Mule Spring Thin9. Jammin' for MD & HD, camping, potluck and fun . Info: Chris Foss, P.O. Box 219, Summersville MO 65571. 417-932-5140. foss@fidnet.com. May 18-20 • Clarion, PA Clarion Folk College, held on the campus of Clarion University. Workshops (MD, HO, other instruments) with focus on group playing. Jam sessions and concerts. Info: Kris Stiglitz, Clarion Un. , Clarion PA 16214, 814-393-2227. www.personal.psu.edu/lrl/cfc. May 20 • Nashville TN Dulcimer Day sponsored by the Grand Old Dulcimer Club. All day jamming and stage presentations in Two Rivers Park. Info: Glen Wilson, 8218 White Chapel Ct., Brentwood TN 37027, 615-373-4270. May 26-26 • Abingdon VA HD Building Elderhostel. Build and learn to play hammered dulcimer. Info: Jeff Sebens, 10 Concord Road, Meadows of

Dan, VA 24120. 877-426-8056 or www.meadows-music.com . May 24-29 • Pell City, AL Dulcimer Jamboree at Lakeside Landing. Gospel, folk, and bluegrass music. Dulcimer (MD, HO) jam, open stage. Other non-amplified instruments welcome. Info: James Wyatt, 205-672-9306. Camping reservations, 205-525-570l. May 25-27 • Usbon, 011 Dulci-More Festival. Concerts, workshops, mini-concerts, and more. (MD, HD) Info: Bill Schilling, 984 Homewood Ave., Salem, OH 44460-3816. 330-332-4420. www.dulcimore.org. May 25-27 • Ripley, 011 Southern Ohio Dulcimer Festival. MD & HD (all levels), guitar, autoharp. Workshops and concerts. Info: Mel Derickson, River Song Music Shoppe, 7 North 2nd St., Ripley, OH 45167. 937-392-9274. www.riversongmusic shoppe.com. May 25-28 • East Troy, WI Strlngalong Weekend. Dulcimer concerts,

workshops, singing, and dancing at YMCA Camp Edwards. Bring or rent an instrument. Info: UWM Folk Center, An n Schmid, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. 800-636-FOLK (3655). www. uwm.edu/Dept/Folk/. May 25-28 • near Comer GA Chickenhouse Jam is simply that: camping and jamming. All instruments (including du lcimers) are welcome. Info: John Stockard, 912-452-5713, dulcimer4u @ya hoo.com or Terry Lewis, 770-338-7469, mtmusic@bellsouth.net. May 27-June 2 • Brasstown, NC Beginning Mt. Dulcimer Workshop. Info : John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.org. June 1-2 • Owensboro, KY Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival at English Park. Concerts, workshops (includes HD, MD), crafts, food , and vendors. Info: Yellowbanks Dulcimer Society, c/o Gilda Shortt, 3506 Montrose Ct., Owensboro, KY 42303. 270-926-9877. gshortt@bellsouth.net. continued

SUDl1ner *English Park * 'V,tvensbo.,.o. Kentucky June 1 & 2,

Dulcimer Classes

Oon't ""j~;G' Susan Trump Kendra Ward & Bob Bence Steve Seifert Mitch Barell & Carla Gover and more . ..

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Conarts, WorkshojJS, Vendors, Crafts, Food, Ltmitd R.Y. Parking ~~ Workshoys ~~ Lap DU{cimer, Hammacd Dufcimer, Banjo, Guitar, FiJd{e, Autohary, Basket making, Du{cimcr making, and . .. For mort Injormo.tlofu (270) 926-9877 * 926-1100

John Dr GI£dn shortt 3506 Montrosc Court Owmsboro, KY 42303

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Mountain June 18-2 1 Hammered August 6-9 New Player/ Beginner & Intermediate Levels

June 15-!7 BeanTree Barn-lJeweYI

A WIDE VARIETY OF WORKSHOPS fOR liAMMEREo &' M OUNTAIN D ULCIMERS

Near Prescott In the Mountains of Northern Arizona

• Min i-Concerts • Evening Performances • Late Night Contra Dance • Jamming/ An Acoustic Instruments Welcome! • Farm-Fresh Catered Food ·Tent Camping .... RV Parking ... .Near-by Hotels ·Two Hours From the Grand Canyon Sponsored in pare by Songbird Dulcimers For Program & Advanced Reqistration Contact: Anna Duff PO Box 641 St. David/ AZ 85630 (520 ) 720 -49 6 5

Email: aaduff@theriver.com www.dulcianna.com

FEATURED PERroRMERS Robert force Nicholas Blanton Karen Mueller David Schnaufer Ken Kolodner Bonnie Carol Randy Marchany Rick Thum Susan Sherlock Dan &' Jean McDermott Chris &' Ann foss Hector Ladios &' Alejandra Barrientos Anna Duff &' Stefan Georae

III keeping tvit" tbe spirit ofthlt canal era, Historic Roscoe Village is bringing the sights, soumis and traditional crafts of the 1800s to you during the

22 Annual ll!!-ritage Craft fir -~ Olde Time:Music Festiva/~ Featuring the Coshocton Art Guild Show & Sale June 23 & 24,2001 Weekend entertainment will include: Kendra Ward and IJob Bence, Umited Edition, Northern EXposure, I More Time String Band, Vibberts & Nicholas Family, WildwOod Musical Ensemble, Back Porch Swing Band, wi.ih open s age and jam sessions. Flat·Picking Guitar COOlest on Sunday,June 24, cash prizes and a Royce Craft Basket awarded to first, second and third place winners.

"Everything but the Melody" HlImmered Dulcimer Workshop Kendra Ward, instructor "Old-Tune Clawhammer" Banjo Workshop Cad YafTey, instructor "Developing Rhythms for rr.lditional Styles" Moumain Dulcimer Workshop Jerry instructor

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Spring 2001 • 15

June 1-3 • Elverson, PA French Creek Dulcimer Retreat. Rustic cabin lodging, jams, workshops, concerts and dancing. Info: Greater Pinelands Dulcimer Society Inc., Pola Ingelsby, PO Box 1144, Medford NJ 08055, 609-953-2622. dulcimergirl@ imagegfx.com. June 1-3 • Greensburg, PA Chestnut RIdge Dulcimer Festival. Workshops (include MD, HD) and concert at the Un. of Pittsburgh, Greensburg. Info: Don and Betty Brinker, 902 Hillview Ave., Latrobe, PA 15650. 724-539-7983. brinkdw@msn.com. June 3-9 • Mars Hili, NC Blue RIdge Old-Time Music Week with classes (includes MD), concerts, and jamming. Info: Mars Hill College, PO Box 6785, Mars Hill NC 28754. 828-689-1167. conferences@mhc.edu.

Meadow Run Campground. Info: Brett Ridgeway, 904-564-9939, fbridgeway@juno.com. June 11)-16 • Brasstown, NC Beginning Hammered Dulcimer. Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.org. June 15-16· Cosby, TN Cosby DulCimer and Harp Festival #25. Folk Life Center of the Smokies. For makers, players and listeners of MD, HD, and harps. Workshops, children's activities and storytelling. Primitive tent camping available. Info: Jean & Lee Schilling, PO Box 8, Cosby, TN 37722. 423-487-5543. lees@planetc.com. June 15-17 • Dewey AZ Southwest Dulcimer Festival features workshops (HD, MD), Friday and

June 9-10 • Fannlngton, PA Laurel Highlands Dulcimer Workshop. HD workshops, Sunday morning service,

jamming. Info: Anna Duff, PO Box 641, St. David AZ 85630, 520-720-4965.

and open mike concert at Benners

www.dulcianna.com.

Saturday concerts, contra dance,

June 16 • Brethren, MI Spirit of the Woods Folk Festival. Free. Performances, music, dance, children'S activities, and crafts at Dickson Township Park. Camping nearby. Info: Spirit of the Woods Music Association, 11171 Kerry Rd., Brethren, MI 49619. 231-477-5381. June 16-18 • Indianapolis, IN Eagle Creek Folk Music Festival. MD, HD, autoharp, guitar and fiddle. Info : Frank Tardy & Connie Morley, Central Indiana Folk Music & Mt. Dulcimer Society, PO Box 1503, Indianapolis, IN 46206.317-846-2395 . June 18-21 • Mt. View, AR Mountain Dulcimer Workshop at the Ozark Folk Center. Beginning and intermediate levels. Classes, jams, concerts. Info: Ozark Folk Center, PO Box 500, Mountain View, AR 72560. 870-269-3851. www.ozarkfolkcenter.com.

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Our 20th Year!

2001:

THE NORTHEAST DULCIMER SYMPOSIUM BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, NEW YORK 23-29 UNE, 2001

Randy Marchany

Mary Mclaughlin

Hammered Dulcimer

Irish Sil1ging/voiee

Heidi Muller

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MOImtainDulcimer

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Ken Lovelett

David Moore Mountai/1 Dulcinler

Duane Wilder Special MOlll1tain Dllicimer Bllildillg Class The Northeast D"lcilner Symposium is sellen days of mlls;c and fllrl 011 the shores of olle of the Adirondack Park s loveljest lakes. All ul1forgeNable week of itltetJsiYe lesso1lS i" small classes, private tutorials; lots of personal attelltioll; COllcerts and jams; bird watching; hiking, Ct1lloing, a1ld kayaki1lg; jloatplane rides; illcredible Slmsets. For informatio1l or to register write Dayid Moore, P.O. Box 358, AIIllapoJis ]ullctiml, Maryland 20701. Email: dtmoore@clark.net Webs i I e: It ttp:1I IVIVIV. cla rk.lle IIpI/ bl dtlll 00 reiII ds200 I Please do not reprint or redistribute without permission. Contact dpn@dpnews.com.

Come join us in historic Bardstown, Kentucky for a wonderful, fun-filled week of classes, jams, concerts and so much more!

KENTUCKY MUSIC WEEK July 15 - 20, 2001 Classes include fretted dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, tin whistle, harp, guitar, fiddle, autoharp, banjo, pocket instrument building, clogging, basketry, harmony singing and shape note singing, weaving, making sock monkeys (all the ragelj, country dancing, performance techniques, and more! Over 70 different classes are offered as well as exciting evening activities. Separate "Kids' Camp" classes. Rental instruments available.

This year's instructors include:

David Schnaufer- Susan Trump- Mark Nelson- Steve Seifert- Gary Ga//ier- Maureen Se//ers- Lee Rowe- Lloyd Wright- Rick Thum- Cathy Barton & Dave Para- Jim Miller- David James- Mollie Freibert- Greg Jowaisas- Ruth Ann Wilkens- Mary Carty- Martha Richard- and More! Classes are held in one building, fully accessible, one floor, air-conditioned with conveniently close parking. Lodging is at Bardstown's Holiday Inn, also hosting our Jam Room, Welcome Party, free buffet breakfast each morning and lots more! For more information you can download and print a copy of this year's brochure from our web site: www texas.netl- squarellkmw or call Nancy Barker (502) 348-5237 or write KM W, Inc., P. 0. Box 86, Bardstown KY 40004. E-mail: KYTreeFrog@ao/.com Please do not reprint or redistribute without permission. Contact dpn@dpnews.com.

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June 19-23 • Labyrinth Canyon, UT Moons and ltines. River running, desert strolling, camping-and music. Professional guides, boats, gourmet food provided. Info: Bonnie Carol, 15 Sherwood Rd., Nederland CO 80466, 303-258-7763. www.BonnieCarol.com.

June 22-24 • caJabasas, CA Summar SolsUce Folk Music, Dance, I Storytelling FestIvaL Workshops (MD, HD), singing, dancing, storytelling and concerts on campus of Soka University. Info: California Traditional Music Society, 4401 Thancas Place, Tarzana, CA 91356-5399. 818-817-7756. www.ctms-folkmusic.org.

June 22-24 • Tullahoma, TN 12th Paul Pyle Dulcimer Daze. Bar-B-Que (6/22-reservations please), All-day jam, pot luck supper, annual meeting (6/23), performances (6/24). Info: 105 Point Circle, Tullahoma, TN 37388. 931-455-6800. website: edge.edge.net/ -brust/.

June 22-24 • Meadows of Dan, VA Hammered Dulcimer Retreat for

Sweetwater announces:

The Fifth Annual

advanced beginners. Info: Jeff Sebens, 10 Concord Road, Meadows of Dan, VA 24120.540-755-3808. www.meadows -music.com.

OH 43812. 740-622-9310 or 800-877-1830. www.roscoevillage.com.

JUne 24-29.CUIiDwhee. HC Mountain Dulcimer Week at Western

workshops,concerts, jams, and dulcimer building workshop. Info: David Moore, PO Box 358, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701. dtmoore@clark.net. www.clark. net/pub/dtmoore/nds2001.

Carolina University. Courses for all levels of MD playing. Repertoire classes, dulcimer building, concerts, open stage, marketplace, and more. Info: Continuing Ed & Summer School, WCU Outreach Center, Cullowhee NC 28723. 828-277-7397. http://cess.wcu.edu/ conted/dulcimer.

June 23-24 • Waynesville, OH Old lYnte Music Festival at Caesar's

July 1-7 • Brasstown, He Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Workshop.

Creek Pioneer Village. Concerts, open stage, workshops for MD, banjo, guitar, fiddle, harmonica, spoons, and more. Info: John Nofisger, PO Box 224, Spring Valley, OH 45370. 937-862-5551.

Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.org.

June 23-29 • Blue Mt. Lake, NY Northeast Dulcimer Symposium XVI. MD and HD classes. Singing, percussion

June 23-24 • Coshocton, OH Annual Olde Time Music Festival at Historic Roscoe Village. Workshops (include MD, HD), jamming, exhibits, sales, concert. Info: Roscoe Village Foundation, 381 Hill St., Coshocton,

SHADY <1aOYE

July 1-6, 8-13 • Wesbninster, MD Common Ground on the Hill. Instruction (includes MD, HD), singing, songwriting, dance, percussion, and more. Info: Common Ground on the Hill, WMC, Western MD College, Westminster, MD 21157.410-857-2771. www.common continued groundonthehill.com.

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Appalachian Dulcimer Camp July 8-13, 200 I On the campus of Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH

All levels of mountain dulcimer instruction with:

For brochure, contact: Sweetwater - 643 E Euclid Ave., Springfield, OH 45505 (937)323-7864 (937)473-5176

Email: sweet-water@musician.org http://www.myfi.eeoffice.comlsweetwater/

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rn ulcimer Week at the Swannanoa Gathering offers students the opportunity to learn the , U hammered or mountain dulcimer (or both!) in a relaxed and intimate setting of small classes and supportive staff, with some of the country's finest teachers and players. The workshop also runs concurrently with ourvocal program, Sing Swing & Stting Week, which offers a children's program and classes in singing, dance and instrWnental instruction. Dulcimer Week students are free to take classes in either program. No other dulcimer workshop can offer all this: • • • • •

Highest-quality instructio n Small classes in a relaxed atmosphere Personal tutorials Take classes in both types of dulcimer Take classes in Sing Swing & String program

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Special Guest Enrichment artists Evening dances, song circles, concerts & jams Air-conditioned dorm The best cafeteria of any camp Children's Program available

~ f[)ulcimer Week Julti 15-21, 2001 ~ with

£915 J-{ombosteL Sam'Rizzetta 1<&n l(Pwdner. Tina rseJH11UU11l. %J:jll15 Gaskins, Joe J--{olhert N ea1 :J-{eUman. rsonnie CaroL £orinda Jones, MiRe Caseti, .MaJtja lvtz & special guest Jean 1ti1Chie with Special CnrichmentGuest5:

%1jllis Gaskins, l(en !l3Wom. Ckim !l3eau. the Trantham :pamil1j and £ee Spean

also:

OldCJlme Music & 'Dance Week

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Mountain dulcimerwith roan 'Pedi

July 8-14 "Celtic Week"· July 15-21 "Dulcimer Week" • July 15-21 "Sing Swing & String Week" July 22-28 "Performance Lab· July 22-28 "Old-Time Music & Dance Week" July 29-Aug.4 "Contemporary Folk Week" • July 29-Aug.4 "Guitar Week" Call or write for a FREE catalog: The Swannanoa Gathering, Warren \Vdson College, PO Box 9000 Asheville, NC 28815-9000 Tel: (828) 298-3434 • Email: gathering@warren-wilson.edu • Website: wW\\l.swangathering.com

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Spring 2001 • 19 July 5-8 • Carthage, MIl Sunvnerfest 2001. Workshops (MD, HD, other acoustic instruments), concerts, jam sessions, crafts. Info: Lloyd or Joyce Woods, 316-389-2377, jlwoods@ columbus-ks.com or Elaine Smith, 417-624-3580, dulcifer@juno.com. July 7-8 • Wesbninster, MD Common Ground American Music & Arts Festival. Features instruments (includes HD and MD), singing, drumming, dance, multi-cultural food. Info: Common Ground on the Hill, WMC, Westminster, MD 21157. 410-857-2771. www.commongroundonthehill.com. July 7-August 12 • Elkins, WV Augusta Heritage Arts Workshops. Five weeks of classes, concerts, dances, etc.,

(includes MD. HD). Info: Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, WV 26241. 304-637-1209. www.augustaheritage.com. July 6-Aug 4 • Swannanoa, NC The Swannanoa Gathering. Week-long workshops in the folk arts. Dulcimer Week (HD, MD) 7/15-21. Info: The

Swannanoa Gathering, Warren Wilson College, PO Box 9000, Asheville, NC 28815.828-298-3434 or 298-3325, ext. 426. www.swangathering.org. July 6-13· Springfield, 011 Shady Grove Appalachian Dulcimer Camp at Wittenberg University. MD instruction (all levels), concerts,jamm ing. Info: Sweetwater, PO Box 164, Covi ngton, OH 453 18. 937-473-5176. sweetwater trio@yahoo.com. July 14 • Quaker City, 011 22nd Annual Dulcimer/Autoharp Competition. MD featured, HD encouraged. Ohio Hills Folk Festival; a small town competition with a big heart. Info: 740-965-5102 or 740-679-2232. July 14--15 • Morris, IL Gebhard Woods DulCimer Festival. Workshops, concerts, jamming, dancing, children's activities (MD, HD). Info: Diane Ippel, PO Box 801, Morris IL 60450,708-331-6875 . www.gwdf.org. July 15-20 • Bardstown, KY Kentucky Music Week. Instruction in

MD, HD, other instruments, basket making, and singing. Concerts. Info: Nancy Barker, Box 86, Bardstown, KY 40004.502-348-5237. www.texas.net/square1/kmw. July 19-22 • Evart, MI Dulcimer Funfest at the Osceola County Fairgrounds. Mainly HD, some MD.Concerts, workshops, open stage, jamming, and sales booths. Camping available. Info: Donna Beckwith, 817 Innes NE, Grand Rapids, Ml49503. 616-459-6716. July 20-22 • near Leavenworth, WA Chatter Creek Hammered Dulcimer Festival. Workshops, concerts, open mikes, and jamming. Info: Kristine Cimi no, 503 240th St., SE, Bothell WA 98021. 425-485-4193. Cimin026@aol.com. June 20-22 • Altamont, NY Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance. Altamont Fairgrounds. Concerts, dancing, workshOps, family activities (MO, HD). Info: Old Songs, Inc., PO. Box 399, Gu ilderland, NY 12084. 518-765-2815. www.oldsongs.org. continued

MEADOWlARK Music camp for adults in mid-coast Maine.

Aug. 19-25, 2001

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Celtic, Old-Time, Maritime, Dance, & more, in a beautiful lake-side setting. INSTRUCTORS: Ken Kolodner (Hammered Dulcimer) Anne Dodson (Mountain Dulcimer) Mike Casey (Mountain Dulcimer) As we ll as instruction on: guitar, fiddl e, banjo, harp, tinwhistle, keyboard , vo ice, harmonica, & more FOR IN FORM ATION, CONTACT: Jerry Bryant (413) 256-6606 25 Columbia Drive, Amherst, MA stagerj@paulsmiths.edu Please do not reprint or redistribute without permission. Contact dpn@dpnews.com.

SUMMERFEST 2001 TENTH ANNUAL DAVID SCHNAUFER*STEVE'SE'IFE'RT"CATI-N BARTON*DAVE' PARA*GARY GALLIER LE'S GALLIE'R"SCOTT ODENA*JIM CURLEY-DAVID MORAN KELLY WERTS*DIANA WE'RT5*PRINCeSS HARRIS*KARE'N DANIELS For further information contact Lloyd/Joyce Woods 316-389-2377 jlwoods@columbus-ks.com Elaine/Jim Smith 417-624-3580 dulcifer@juno.com Mike nchenor 417-358-1800 mnstmerc@ipa.net

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Hammered Dulcimer: Karen Ashbrook, Jeanean Song co Martin, Walt Michael, Rick Thurn, and Bill Troxler Mountain Dulcimer: Sally Rogers

4th Annual American Music & Arts Festival JULY 7th & 8th at the Carroll County Farm Museum Featuring 5 stages o f exciting music, singing, drumming, and dance; with juried art & crafts, c hildren 's World Village, and delicious multi-cultural foods!

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ANNUAL July 22-27 • Kansas City, MD Heartland Dulcimer Camp, a week of study in MD and HD (all levels). Jam sessions, workshops, open stage, concerts. Info: Esther Kreek, PMB 206, 1156 W. 103rd St., Kansas City MO 641 14.816-942-6233.

July 27, 28, 29, 2001 U..itarian Universalist Church BingIJamto/z, New York Bill Spence & Fennig's All Stars

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July 22-27 • Brasstown, NC Dulcimer Reunion for Intermed iate HD and MD players. Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.org. July 22-28 • Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada Northern Ughts HD Retreat Workshop with individual and group instruction. Info: Steve Schneider, 845-268-7102, H Dplayer@aol.com. July 26-28 • Houston, TX Sam Fest features workshops for MD, HD, autoharp, fiddle , fo lk harp, guitar, pennywhistle, and more. Includes SAMFest Bandscramble. Info: Peggy Carter, 16142 Hexham Dr., Spring, TX 77379. 281-370-8993. samfest97@aol.com.

July 27-29 • Binghamton, NY Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering. Workshops (MD, HD, autoharp), concerts, open stage, contra-dancing, and jamming. Primitive camping available. Info: Ed Ware, 1259 Fowler Place, Binghamton, NY 13903. 607-669-4653. http://people. ne.mediaone.net/jonwl/cranberry. July 27-29 • Louisville, KY Kentucky Music Weekend. Concerts, workshops, dances, and crafts at Iroq uois Park. Also see July 15th listing. Info: Nancy Barker, Box 86, Bardstown, KY 40004. 502-348-5237. \v\vw.texas. net/-squarel/kmw. July 28-29 • Kirtland Hills, OH Utile Mountain Folk Festival. Entertainment, children's activities, living history, vendors. Info: Harry Hopes, Lake County Historical Center, 8610 King Memorial Rd., Mentor, OH 44060. 440-255-8979. continued

You are invited to the 14th annual

Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festival July 14 & 15, 2001 Th is year's perrormers to include: Dan Zahn & Chris McNamara Cathy Barton & Dave Para Ed Tricket Bill Robinson & Friends Mike Anderson Diane Ippel & Rob Williams Kat Eggleston Tull Glazener Anna Stange Sherri Farley

* Gebhard Woods State Park * Morris, Illinois Concerts - Workshops Old-Tim e Dance L Children's Activities Instrument Crafters Musical Recordings & Accessories Food Vendors

For inrormation, call (708) 331-6875, or write to HANDS, PO Box 801 , Morris, IL 60450-080 I, or visit us at our Web site: www.gwdf.org. Sron"(lr~J h~ IIA'\; DS 01 1111 no' .... .I l1ol -lIlr-prolll org,\llIz,ilnm JeulL'.lIl.'d [0 PICSCr\ IIlg ,lilt! prOIllOI1 ng llull.: IIllL'1 IllU"'IC In ,\ .... OL'I,llIon \\lIh the 1111001' D('p.IIII11""111 01 '.LIlli.!] Ri..· .. ouru: .. ,mu the ell) 01 \lom .. P.lflJ.llI) 'Uppolh.x.l h) .1 gl,uH from 1111..' 11111101" Arl'- Council

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The Great River R0lud F $tival

.:. Illinois State Mountain."<U1U-. Evening Concerts .:. Workshops Friday a Continuous 0 Festival Website For indoor lodging, see our website o~ a1 us for may be resI:\lea by calling State Park Camping is available adjacent to the lodge For festival registration forms contact Sharon at 618-6 -8535 or by em at Hargus65@agtelco.com All other inquiries, contact Johanna Nicholas at 314-863-8807 or jnichola@artsci.wustl.edu

SAM Fest 2001 Summer Acoustic Music Festival

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Workshops and concerts Patty Amelotte & Frank Simpson David Moran &: Joe Morgan Rick Thurn String Band Maureen Sellers Lorinda Jones Dan Evans Peggy Carter Nancy Price Singing sailors of the sailing ship Elissa

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July 26-28 Houston, Texas First Methodist Church Westpark Campus

• Workshops for: Mt. Dulcimer, Hammer Dulcimer, GUitar, Autoharp, Fiddle, Irish Flute, Banjo, Folk Harp, Mandolin, Sacred Harp, and much more. • Power Workshops Thursday afternoon • The famous SAM Fest Band Scramble • Lunch-time concerts Friday &: Saturday With special International guests Dan Evans from Olney, England and Frank Simpson from Dublin, Ireland.

For details contact: Peggy Carter, 16142 Hexham Drive, Spring, TX 77379 (281)370-8993 • E-mail: Samfest97@aol.com • Vendor spaces still available. Please do not reprint or redistribute without permission. Contact dpn@dpnews.com.

August 3-6 • Ireland O'Carolan Harp &'D'ad. Music Festival.

August 19-25 • Washington, ME Meadowlark Music Camp features classes

Concerts, Irish music sessions, ceilidhe, workshops for harp, flute, tin whistle, fiddle, banjo, and other instruments. Info: Paraic Noone, Keadue, Co. Roscommon, Ireland. Phone (078)47204, Fax (078)47511. ocarolan@eircom.net.

(MD, HD and other folk instruments), concerts, and jamming. Info: Jerry Bryant, 25 Columbia Dr., Amherst MA 01002.413-256-6606. www.paulsmiths. edu/ -stagerj/meadowlark.html.

August 4 • Santa Cruz, CA Redwoods Dulcimer Festival. MD workshops. Info: Janet Herman, 5280 Old San Jose Rd., Soquel CA 95073, 831-465-1585, 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 6-9 • MI. View, AR Summer Hammered Dulcimer Workshop at the Ozark Folk Center. Beginning and intermediate levels. Classes, jams, concerts. Info: Ozark Folk Center, PO Box 500, Mountain View AR 72560. 870-269-3851. www.ozarkfolkcenter.com.

August 11-12 • Salem, WV Dulcimer Weekend at Fort New Salem. Workshops (MD, HD), concert, and jamming. Info: Carol Schweiker, Fort New Salem, Salem International University, Salem WV 26426. 304-782-5245. www.salemiu.edu.

August 17-19 • near Salem, OR KIndred Gathering, a gathering for friends of modes and dulcimerie (MD, but other instruments welcome) at Silver Falls State Park. Workshops, concert. Info: Lance Frodsham, 3103 SE Briarwood Dr., Vancouver WA 98683. 360-254-3737; frodsham@e-z.net.

August 17-19. MI. Laguna CA Gathering at Mt. Laguna. Workshops for dulcimer, harp, guitar, bowed psaltery, and more. Concert Saturday night. Info: Susan Raimond, PO Box 213, Mt. Laguna CA 91948.619-473-1213.

August 18 • CinCinnati, OH Picnic at Keehner Park. MD, HD, other instruments and their players invited for an afternoon of jamming and potluck. Info: Carol Campbell, 7605 Camargo Rd., Cincinnati OH 45243, 513-561-8502.

August 23-26 • Booneville, MS Fall Dulcimer Festival, featuring workshops (MD, some HD), performances, jamming, and handcrafters. Sponsored by the Magnolia Dulcimer Club. Info: Forrest D. Smith, PO Box 493, Booneville MS 38829, 662-728-5448. forsmith@bellsouth.net.

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.

August 24-26 • Midland, MI Midland Dulcimer Festival at Midland Fairgrounds. (HO, MO) Jamming, workshops, concerts. Info: Bill Kuhlman, 2769 S. Homer Rd., Midland MI 48640. 517-835-5085. beeps@concentric.net.

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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/il/gateway.

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September 2-8 • Brasstown, Ne Beginning Hammered Dulcimer Workshop

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Info: John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902. 800-365-5724. www.folkschool.org. 0

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Announcing The Eighth Annual Housatonic Dulcimer Celebration

Janita Baker Recordings &. Books

r:5Blues <:&' 0?t:rgtime Fifteen fingerpicked songs including St. Louis Blues, Sweet Home Chicago, &Maple Leaf JIiIg arranged for four equidistant strings. CD - $15.00; Tab Book $15.00

September 28, 29, 30 In the beautiful Litchfield Hills of

New Milford, CT Steve Maggie Sansone, Paul Dorts, Nick Blanton Janita Baker· Maddie MacNeil. David Schnaufer, Stephen Seifert. Dallas Cline· Sue Ford, David Marks· Tom and Geri White

Over Easy, Lambs Rams & Bossy Cows: Bernadette Wiemer, Thomasina, Rob Brereton, Mike Kachuba

Fingerpicking Dulcimer Sixteen songs including Flir Elise, The Entertainer, &- Careless Love arranged for three and four equidistant strings

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Technical Dulcimer by Sam Rillelta

Mean-Tone Temperament For Fretted Dulcimer

nervous yo ung man gets off the bus in New York City carefully cradl ing a violin case unde r his arm. Amid the tall and imposing buildings he looks back and forth with a bewildered expression on his face. With some hcsitation he asks the elderly woman standing on the corner, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" She looks him up and down and without batting an eye replies, "Practice, son, practice." She mig ht have added "tuning" to practice as part of the recipe for sounding ou r best. As someone who has built and played stringed instruments for a long time I have done a lot of tuning. And whenever I have to tune in public it seems that I bccome a social magnet. People always want to come and talk to me while I am tuning. In the days of tuning by ear this was, of course, annoying. But with the advent of electronic tuners I can remain pleasant, and even carry on a conversation, while continuing the tuning task. Invariably people are fascinat ed by electronic tuners and their cute little meters and flashing colored lights. They always position themselves so that thcy can look at the tuner and see whatever it is that I

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am looking at. Of course, they quickly understand that when the meter reads zero or the lights flash green, then the string is in tune. They also notice that I usually don't tune the strings in tune to the meter. The needle almost never points to zero before I move on to another string. If I am lucky, they will just assume that I am not very good or conscie ntio us at tuning and walk away. If they ask, "Why don't you tune to the tuner?" then the door may be open to a long explanantion. The short answer is, " Because it sounds better." Previous discussions in the DPN have covered some of the different ways to tune scales. But the questions that I receive indicate that it is time to revisit those discussions. If we were to playa diatonic (do, re, mi, etc.) scale, or music in that scale, and make the intervals most pleasing and harmonious to the human ear, we would use the " natural scale." The same wou ld hold true for scales or music using modes based on the diatonic scale, such as aeol ian, mixolydian, dorian, etc.

But the natural scale is not what pianos and other fixed-pitch instruments are tuned to. They use the "equal-temperament scale." A tempered scale is one which is changed from the natural scale in some way. Equal temperament divides all half-step intervals equally so that one may play in any key and be equally in tune. Since the time of Bach and his music for the well-tempered clavier, and the ascendancy of the piano, equal temperament has been a mainstay of Western music. But musicians in non-European cultures often point out that eq ual temperament allows us to play equally out-oftu ne in all keys! Fortunately, there are other temperaments, called "mean-

tone temperaments," that preserve the best attributes of the natural scale, the rich natural major thirds, and still let us play well tuned in several keys, especially keys adjacent on the circle of fifths, such as A, 0 , G, C, and F. This happe ns to be ideal for both fretted and hammer dulcimers. To read more about natural, mean-tone, and equal temperament

scales see "Mean-Tone Temperament for Hammer D ulcimer," by Rick Fogel, DPN Vol. 14, No.4, Fall 1988. And for more about mean-tone scales on fretted dulcimers see The Answer Column, by yours truly, DPN Vol. 13, No.2, Spring 1987. What I will do here is give a mean-tone scale forfretted dulcimer and talk about how to tune hammer dulcimers in this system in the next issue of the DPN . It was my blessing, or curse, to have been a guitar maker before making fretted dulcimers. It was easy to see that the frets on a dulcimer are like those of the gu itar, except that some frets are removed to provide only a diatonic scale. And so, [ used patterns of guitar frets, lengthened out to whatever string scale length was desired, with appropriate chromatic frets re moved, to build my earliest fretted dulcimers. I did notice that some old traditional dulcimers had their frets arranged in patterns that didn't quite line up properly with the guitar scale. Some musicians assumed that the makers of these old instruments were unsophisticated bumpkins who did it "wrong. " A few went so far as to have antique du lcimers refretted to put the frets in the " right" places. However, I began to notice that the old fret placements were much

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c10ser to the natural sca le. They actually sounded bette r and probably had frets placed by ear to provide the sweetestsounding scale. Since the mean-tone scale preserves the sweet aspects of the natu ra l scale while allowing us to play in many useful keys, lia ng ago decided that fre t place ment to provide a mean-tone temperament is the ve ry best way to go on the fre tted dulcime r. Today we can find scale lengths on dulcime rs from 25.5" to 30" and some even longe r or shorter. My persona l favorite for full-size dulcimers is 28". So, I'll give fret place ment for a 28" string vibrating length. The lengths are for the distance [rom the saddle to each fret, starting with the

Although mean-tone dulcimers sound wo nde rful played solo, questions always a rise as to whether such a dulcimer can play in tune with other instrume nts. Instrume nts that do not have fixe d pitches, such as violin and voice and fre tless banjo, work well. Sensitive musicians often sing or playa pure, natural scale when not constra ined by the instruments aro und the m. And, of course, you ca n play with othe r mean-tone instrume nts, including most harpsichords and other early instrume nts. We will be a little out of tune with the piano. Some fixed-pitch, equa l-teme rament instrume nts, like the guitar and ba njo, are played all the time with fiddl e a nd voice, a nd guitar and lute a re played wi th harpsicho rd. Any dis-

distance to th e nut. And the do, re, mi, scale is given, assum-

agreements in temperament arc tra nsient and not not very

ing "do" at the third fret.

noticeable in the music. Mean-tone te mpe rament fret placement fo r dulcime r? All in all , I wouldn 't have my dulcimers any othe r way. Try it o n the next dulcime r yo u build o r buy. Sweet scales to you all! 0

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You can devise a multiplie r to derive any scale le ngth you desire. Fo r instance, to turn a 28" scale le ngth into a 27" scale length, whe re x is the new multi plier: x = 27 divided by 28 = .9642857 Multiply the above lengths by x to place frets for a 27" scale length.

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The Senet 'orden of Steve S(hneider as told to Sam Edelston â&#x20AC;˘ Cos Cob, Connecticut

He brought the hammered dulcimer to Broadway in the orchestra of The Secret Garden. He's played the dulcimer in soundtracks for movies, television, jingles and a book-on-tape. He 's written music for two off-off Broadway shows. He has made several recordings and writes a column for this magazine. Steve Schneider is an extremely talented and versatile musician who would rather be in sync with other players than shine alone in the spotlight. Here is his story.

Sounds like a promising start. It was, but then I hit a wall. I attended New York City'S High School of Music and Art, and toward graduation, I was confused and dep ressed. I fe lt that music was bringing me more pa in and fear than anything else, and I cou ld no longer play in front of anybody. It was as though everything had been negated, and I had lost the abi li ty to speak. I wanted to be a musicia n, but I was conflicted about th e appropriateness of pursuing music as a career. On one hand, I was getting tremendous strokes for my music. On the other hand, I was getting very negative messages regarding being a musician. This was in the sixties and th ere were plenty of bad examples that peo ple cou ld point to in order to illustrate how the life of the musician was precarious at best. This confli ct grew to the point whe re I co uldn 't bring myself to play music any mo re, and I e nd ed up giving it up for about ten years. It was a low point in my life, but in some ways I'm really thankful for it now. Because of that period of musical abstinence, I now approach teaching and performing in a dee per way, and I think it's made me a better listener and a more empath ic teacher. One of my favorite workshops to lead dea ls with iss ues of performing because that's where I see th e most miracles, a nd it's always very moving. It also led me to a career in music th erapy and to some very remarkable experiences in my work with term inally ill people and their fam ilies.

Tell me about your musical roots. W hen I was five years o ld, my parents bought a piano, and I'm incredibly thankfu l to them for that. I can recall sitting down and working out Mary Had A Little Lamb and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and I felt that this, th e piano keyboard, was the first thing that I could really understand . It was just like entering into a language that tru ly made sense for the first time in my life. I went on to take piano lessons for years, and later studied string bass and Dalcroze Eurythmics, which is a brill iantly subtle and common-sense approach to teach ing

music. Who were some early influences? I grew up in New York City and my parents took me to concerts and Broadway musicals. I re member seeing Leo nard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. I watched Libe race on TV regularly, and I still watch Victor Borge whenever I ca n. I also listened to my parents' eclectic LP collection filled with classical, folk, e thni c, pop, jazz, a nd Broadway show music. And I listen ed to a lot of rock and ro ll. As a teenager, I played in a rock band called, believe it or not, The Blueberries.

Tell me about your music therapy work. For my Masters in Music The rapy, I worked with termina l cancer patients and their fami lies, and it was tremendously moving and fulfilling. For several yea rs, I had a private practice specializing in helping musicians who wished to personally grow and develop through intensive music improvisation and exploration. Part of th e trainin g in music therapy is to learn to be able to scale down your music to its most essential elements and lea rn to control it. It doesn 't matter how fast you can play, o r how impressive your music is; it works at a much deepe r level than that. Right now, I'm working in th e neo natal intensive care unit (NICU) of Beth Isra el Medical Center in New York City. I play hamme red dulcimer in a central location from where the mus ic can be heard by all the babies, staff, and visitors. I ta ilor wha t I play to the perceived needs of the uni t at the moment, usually for soothing and calming. Dr. Joanne Loewy, th e music therapy program director, fee ls that the hammered dulc ime r is th e ideal instrume nt for this application. We just completed a study that showed the effective ness of using music in this way, and I recently presented my work at the first colloq uium for music th erapy in the NICU.

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DISCOGRAPHY Tuesday's Child The Door To Christmas (with Dave Neiman) A Place Just Right (with Simple Gifts) Momentum (with Paul Oorts) Nowadays, I'm changing my focus a bit. As part of a duo called Kinde rFolk with Connie Manson, a Waldorf-trai ned kindergarten teacher and singer, I play hammered and mountain dulcimer, guitar, harp, and accordi on. We perform sea-

Arou nd age twenty-seve n I bought a piano. I hadn't played in a long time, a nd I began do ing what I had done as a child, just spending lots of time fooling aro"und a nd beginning to find a musical voice again.

sonal stories and songs for children up to age seven (for whom there's not much in the way of entertainment that really honors their innocence). We try to offer a ge ntle and age-appropriate experience. it's all acoustic and very simple. I love play ing for children; their response to music is immediate and real. I'm a lso working in a duo called Solace, with Joy Plaisted, a concert harpist. We've been performing mostly in hospitals and hospices, with therapeutic goals, to offer respite and re laxation to people in need. I'm also a member of Tympanon, a three-dulcimer e nsemble specializing in E uropean music, wit h Paul Oorts, Maggie Sansone, and Nick Blanton. Yet, at the same time, I love the sou nd of the hammered dulcimer by itself, and I'd like to prod uce a solo recording someday.

And then you branched out to the dulcimer?

As a full-time musician, how much time do you get to practice?

One day I saw a stra nge teardrop-shaped instrume nt on the wall of a friend's house. T hey'd bought it at a crafts fair and had no clue what to do with it. I borrowed it, figured out how to tune it, and began playing the mountain dulcimer, which I still play and occasiona lly teach. I went to my first dulcimer concert thinking I'd see someone playing the mountain dulcimer, but instead it turned out to be Jim Couza playing the hammered dulcimer. I'd never seen or heard anything like it before, and I was hooked. I fell absolute ly in love with the sound, a nd I began playing, last century, in 1984.

Practicing is a life-long pursuit, and at times is an incredible luxury. I'm trying to split my practice time mostly betwee n my two James Jones dulcimers and piano, plus I take the occasional harp lesson. I also practice with my 12-year-old son Za k (he curre ntly spells it Xaq), who's becoming quite a good

By the way, how did you return to music?

Let's talk about your performing. Every time I hear about you, you're playing with others: the orchestra on Broadway, or Unda Russell, or your recording with Dave Neiman. Your last recording was with the guitarist Paul Dorts. I have a lways preferred playing with others, really. Even my "solo" album, 1i.lesday's Child, doesn't have any solo cuts. Paul is a great friend and a remarkable musician. We met at the Cranbe rry Dulcimer Gat hering years ago. Late one night, I was playing some French musette music and Paul came rushing in saying, "Who's playing that music?" because it was repe rtoire that he'd grown up with in his native Belgium . We had an instant musical and personal rapport, played together all night long, and we became fast friends. Our rehearsals are painstaking. We're extremely picky about every particular note and every chord change and who's going to play in what register, when , and how loudly. O Uf arrangement s are

vio linist and composer. But th ere is never tim e to practi ce

enough.

What other projects are you working on? I'm starting to put my music and workshops into books, worki ng on recordings with KinderFolk and Solace, and beginning some post-graduate studies in music therapy. I'm getting ready to lead the first No rthe rn Lights Hamme red Dulcimer Retreat in Ontario. In my non-dulcime r hours, the re's never e nough time spend time with my family (where I'm the main cook), or to read. I love hiking, and I maintain six miles of hiking trails in H arriman State Park. I haven't watched te levision for more than 12 years, but, I love watching movies, including the Marx Brothers. In fact , I proposed to my wife, Mary, eighteen yea rs ago on a sheep fa rm in Wisconsin, in the middle of A Night at the Opera.

Which demonstrates something I had already noticed-that the two of you make beautiful music together. 0 Steve Schneider, PO Box 34, Congers NY 10920 www.steveschneider.comÂˇmusic@steveschneider.com

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The linear (hromati( by Steve Schneider The Linear Chromatic was developed by Steve Shmania (who holds the trademark) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and luthier James Jo nes, of Bedford, Virginia. Steve developed the tuning scheme (with a little help from me) while James developed the design for the instrument. The name Linear Chromatic is appropriate; as you go vertically up any bridge (in a linear fashion) the notes ascend chromatically, in half-steps. Therefore, the distance between half-steps is consistent throughout the instrument. Every interval on one side of any bridge enjoys this consistency; a whole-step (major 2nd) is made up of two half-steps, a mino r 3rd is made up of three half-steps, and so on. The Linear Chromatic still retains the 5th across the bridge, just as the "regul ar," di atonic, dulcimer, SO the experienced player will feel somewhat at home. Since all half-steps are now included o n each bridge, the spacing is somewhat different from the diatonic dulcimer. For example, an interval of a 6th going up the bridge is significantly longer than it used to be. An experienced player needs to adjust his/her sense of space on the instrument; but, the beauty and the charm are that this dulcimer has become morc of a "serious" musical instrument In order to playa major sca le, you really have to know either the note names, or, if not, the sequence of whole- and half-steps that make up a major scale.

I think of it as a "studio" instrument. Once you've gained fluency o n the LC, you should be able to play in any key without much stretching, just as o n the piano. In fact, James Jo nes has some tuning color schemes to choose from, including one in which the white courses correspond to the white notes of the piano, and th e black to th e black notes (this is the one 1 have). So, one of the visual cues 1 have when playing in C Major, say, is that if I play only white courses, (as on the piano) I'm in the key of CM. 10 shift to G Major, I need to add an F#, and th at'S a black course, as it is on the piano. This is a boon to players who understand piano theory, since you can actually "see" the keys you're playing in. For more information about the Linear

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by Nicholas Blanton· Shepherdstown, West Virginia

nee again, we deal with va rio us cla ims as to the origin of the hammered du lcimer (a nd once again I will use the historically accurate te rm, dulcimer, with apologies to yo u fretted folks) . To summarize the last article: we saw how scholars had mista ke nly ascribed the dulcime r to the Assyria ns of 900 BC a nd the Israelites of 200 Be. The Assyria n habit of holding a harp horizontally and stri king the strings with a baton, using the free hand to mute the m, had disappeared around 600 Be. Du ring a ncient times, the re we re many kinds of harps and lyres about, but other than the Assyri an harp we fi nd no othe r refere nce to any box with strings be ing played with sticks. Conve nie ntly enough, if we move fo rward in history the next possible sightings of the du lcimer are also in the Middle East.

The Middle East and the Arabs While Europeans were chasing each other in the bushes with spears the Arabs were reading Aristotle, working o n highe r mathe matics, and inventing the lute. No t only this, but medieval Arab culture was diverse, with Persian, Indian,

Turkish, Jewish and even Chinese influe nces. Many writings about music survive in Arabic sources, including ma ny lists of musical instruments, and it could be plausibly cla imed that the Arabs liked instrumental music more than the Europeans. The dulcime r, or santur, is now a very important instrum ent in Iran, was popular also at one tim e in Turkey,

and is known and played in much o f the Muslim east, in Kas hmir, N ghanistan, and northe rn Pakistan. It would seem a safe bet that the Arabs inve nted the dulcimer. In Clavier magazine in the early 1970's an article described AI Fara bi, the famous ninth-centu ry musician and intellectua l, as the inven tor of the du lcimer. The a rticle, by Walte r J. Clark, listed no specific references, and the information seems to have come from a devotee o f the mode rn Irania n santur. Whatever the source, it is a story that still pops up from time to time. Clark's account is much like (a nd the refo re probably based o n) the legend of AI Farabi's inven tion of the qanun, the mode rn Arabic psaltery, which was set down by Ibn Kha ll ika n (c. 1282 A D). Though AI Farabi used the name ma'asif, not qanun, he proba bly did include a psa ltery in his ca talog of instruments, the Kirab al-musiqi. Ibn Khal-

likhan, and pe rhaps AI Farabi, described qanuns with multiple bridges a nd interlacing strings, an aspect of dulcime r design. But there was no mention of anyone hitting a qanun or ma'asif with hamme rs. No one today hits a qanun with hammers, either.

If Clark was misled, he should conside r H.G. Farme r (1882- 1965). Probably yet the best a uthority in English for the history of Arabic music, Fa rme r's bibliography, Sources of Arabian Music (1939) is still standa rd.

t one point Fa rme r cited AI Husain ibn Z aila (d. 1048 AD) as the first one to me ntion the dulcime r. Ibn Zaila referred to "the Chinese harp (sa nj sini), that yo u play on with beating rods." But the ibn Z a ila catalog was

divided into vari ous categori es of instruments; wind, stringed,

and percussion, and the sanj sini was listed with the pe rcussion instruments, not stringed ones. There also is no evidence of a Chinese dulcime r until after 1500 AD, when it was introduced from Europe. But the Chinese have a very ancient and rich be ll-a nd-gong tradition, and Fa rmer thus concluded the Chinese harp was a rack of gongs or tuned be lls. Another Arab, the famous ibn Kh aldun (d .1406), described an instrument played with sticks called a tusut. Again Farmer initially assumed this was a dulcimer. But later he found that what was hit were tuned glasses, not strings. The tusut was an instrument similar to the Pe rsia n filjian saz, played through the 17th centu ry and still found in India. In the end Farmer found no evidence for dulcimers in the early Arab wo rld . He found a great va riety of psalte ries, as in Europe, but again the re was no evide nce people played them with sticks. Indeed, the best evidence showed that the instrument had actually appeared quite late in the Middle East. The compe ndious Turkish catalog of musical instruments, that of Ewliya Chlebi (who died in 1660) was the first to list the santur, but didn't bothe r to describe it. Another smaller list, by Chlebi's conte mporary, Haji Kh alifa, did not even me ntion it. Clearly, the dulci mer was known but not conside red of much importance in the Middle East at mid-1 7th century, lo ng after it had appeared in Europe. But was the re a brief appearance in the Middle East be fore this? On to the next possibility.

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Queen Melisende's Psalter Around the year 1139, Melisende, Q ueen of Jerusalem, in one of the Crusader kingdoms, aquired an o rnately carved ivo ry book cover fro m Byza ntium (fi gure.1 ): T he cover is now in the British Museum, and shows scenes fro m the life of King David. One scene shows a seated Kin g David with a couple of sticks in his hands apparently playing a dulcimer. If there we re gaps between Ki ng David's ha nds and the sticks, we could persuade o urselves that the very long sticks were actually the artist's way of carving the brid ges of the instrument, since they are in the ri ght place for that. But there is no such gap. King David's instrume nt has strings; the little lines showing them are too close together to allow us to thin k this is an early xylophone. King David is really waving those sticks like he's hitting with the m, not strumming. The ivory carving has been clumsily restored, and it has the refore been suggested that the representation is dubious. But a color photo shows clearly that this part of the carvi ng has been spared aiteration.'" The scene is a lso pretty rea listic; certainly the rebec playe r holds the rebec and the bow much in the same way rebec players are shown in othe r medieval artwo rks. King David's instrument has been cited as the earliest appea rance of the dulcimer, but he re's the problem. There is no source fro m this time, othe r than Q ueen Me lisende's Psalter, that describes or shows a dulcime r. No r, until 1440, is there further kn own me ntion of a dulcimer a nywhere, a gap of about 300 years; in the Middle East of about 500 years. The re also is nothing showing or describing a dulcimer before 1139. So, nothing before 1139, and nothing afte r 1139, fo r 300 years, And noth ing anywhere else in 1139.

f we accept that this is a represen tation of a dulcimer, the n, we have to wonder why the dulci mer appeared momenta rily in Byzantium, va nished, then reappeared 300 yea rs late r. There we re medieval inst ru me nts that were played for a very short time-the citole, fo r example- that nobody knows much about now. But even these we have heard of because peo ple played them, and the n someone wrote about people playing them. King David's dulcimer, if it was that, clearly wasn't played very long, or ve ry much . We can at least say that the instrument was never distributed from Byzantium to the rest of the world, fo r that wo uld mean people played it. H ow can you say something is distributed if it doesn't seem to be played anywhere for 300 yea rs? Eight hundred years afte rwards, it's impossible fo r us to kn ow what th e instrument was, and where it we nt. But th ere are possible explanations. Social upheaval could have caused its de mise. By 1139 Byzantium was in decline, beset by numerous invasions until its final conquest by the Turks in 1453, and the small Crusader kingdoms in Palestine were whittled away and fina lly gone after 1291. Perhaps the handful of dulcimer players happened to all die in one battle, or in one palace intrigue? This is far too romantic and tidy fo r my tastc, but we can't rule it out. A better possibility for King David's dulcimer

Figure 1. The Queen Melisende Psalter British Library, Egt139.

is technical di fficulty, something that has been overlooked. Have yo u noticed a pattern has been repeating he re, from the Assyria n archaeology onwards? A scholar finds evidence for a psaltery, a box with strings. He assumes that, given a psaltery, the re a re also dulcimers, and finds one. But then someone discovers to his consternation that, no, there is no actual evide nce of dulcimers. These scholars, as well as the reader, should wonde r, well, why not? If you've got a psaltery, why not hit it with sticks, and make it a dulci me r? Because it doesn't work. Most strings under some tension will produce a to ne whe n plucked, but to convert the energy of a blow into a tone, to make someth ing other than a "thud," the string tension must be much higher. This extra tension makes the instrument harder on the finge rs, so plucked instruments are naturally strung too light fo r hamme rin g. A lso, to be strong enough for hammering, a fi ber string needs to be very thick. But thick fiber stri ngs must carry low tones; internal friction da mps out highe r frequencies unless the string is thin. And even a single bra ided thick gut string is pretty light for hammering. If it were thick enough, it would

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be difficult to wrap it around a tuning peg and turn the peg by hand. A be tter tone, using hand-turned pegs, wou ld be produced if a number of lighter strings were tuned to the same note. This is probably what the Assyrian harpers were doing: beating out a rhythmic drone. Queen Melisende's Psalter does show how such a bass drone might look in Byzantium: like a psaltery, but played with long sticks so all those strings could be hit at once. Certainly, the psaltery was connected, in the Medieval mind, with King David, and if we allow for funny perspective he's playing a typical ~syÂ metrical psaltery. Looking at the carving with this in mind, King David is playing a drone for the rebec player (and perhaps the harpist) to playa melody over. It is very nice for a King to allow somebody else to play lead. But perhaps this drone-dulcimer wasn't useful e nough, compared to regular psalteries, for many people to use it, as a plucked gut string would still produce about as much sound (though not the rhythmic possibilities) as a struck gut string. And so it disappeared. Perhaps it had metal strings? Metal strings can be under

enigma tic clavichord-like wire-strung instrument, the checker, and in 1390, the clavichord and c1avicimbalum, or harpsichord . And the n in the 15th century came another refe rence to an instrument needing good supplies of strong wire: the dulcimer.

Henri-Arnaut De Zwolle The word dulcimer is a corruption of the Latin: du lce melos- "sweet song." In 1440, a Dutch musician/theorist named H enri-Arnaut de Zwolle described for the first time a number of instruments and their construction, call ing them all dulce melos.

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potest tribus modis componi. Primo modo, vulgariter et grosso modo, quemadmodum communiter fit de quo, qualllum de presenti, pamm curo, quia in ipso cum baculo fit contactus cordanlm solum nlfaliter:

much greater tension than, have more mass than, and do not

have the inte rnal damping of gut strings. They can thus store more energy, and can vibrate clearly at higher pitch. If you want to hammer out a melody in a treble range, yo u would want metal strings.

here were indeed medieval instruments strung with metal; Bartholomeus Anglicus, circa 1250, stated that psalteries had metal strings, and Giraldus Cambrensis stated that the harps of Ireland had them as well. But we have to consider the quality of the wire. To make wire in the 12t h century, first a metal sheet, say of brass, was hammered out, being heated up occasionally to keep it soft. Then the sheet of brass was cut into long square strips, each strip twisted to make a spira l, and then each spiral rolled between two heavy plates of iron to make it round. This process is quite laborious, and can only produce limited lengths of wire. It a lso ma kes wire with hard spots and soft spots, and thin spots. Uneven hardness and uneven diameter make for weak wire,

that breaks easily; wire that was more suitable for ge nteel plucking but not hammering. If our King David had a meta lstrung dulcimer, he would have had to replace stri ngs often enough for it to be a significa nt expense. Thu s, a wire-strung dulcimer wou ld have been expensive, even impractical, in

1139. And a gut-strung dulcimer would have been of limited use as a mere drone.

In the mid-14th century someone improved wire-making by taking those strips of brass and drawing the m, or pulling them, through holes drilled in a steel plate. (In Augsburg in 1351, the description of wire-makers changed from wire ha mmerers to wire drawers.) Pulling the wire throu gh smaller and smaller holes made it possible to create wire more cheaply, a t much greater le ngths, a nd a lso of even diameter and even hard ness. In short, wire was made that cou ld take greater tension and harder use. Short ly after this development, in 1360, there appeared an

[It should be noted that the instrument named dulce melos can be found at present in three varieties. The first variety, the vulgar and, overall , the popular variety, I mention only because a stick is made to contact the strings, the way it's done in the country.] Salve Paul Oorts for the translation. Then he moves on; the other two dulce melos instruments he dea ls with are clavichords. They have Henri-Arnaut's approval ; he draws diag rams of them and devotes much space to discussing them, as well as ot her keyboard instruments. Yes, dulcimer recorded history begins with a snub by a keyboard snob. But notice that Henri-Arnaut says that the dulce melos was popularly played in the countryside. It shows that it dates earlier than 1440.

hat was the early dulce mel as? There is a curious division in the paintings of dulcimers. Some paintings of this time show very simple rectangular dulcimers, beaten with sticks as if they were string drums. Notice that Henri-Arnaut wrote that a stick is made to contact the strings, not sticks. From the 9th centu ry AD there is an instrument known as the cho rus in Medieval Europe. It was a box with two strings by 1300, and it provided a drone. But there is no description of how it was played, until in 1420 Jean de Gerson described it as played with a stick. This beaten version is the ancestor of the modern Tambourin de Bearn, or Bearnaise string drum, and was quite similar to the simple rectangular dulcimers. Could Arnaut de Zwolle's dulce melos be the same thing as the chorus described by Jean de Gerson? Although we think of the dulcimer as a melody instrument, it could be that creating a drone was the first thought, (again remind ing us of the instrument shown in Queen Melisende's Psalter, and the Assyrian harpists) and the more fami liar trapezoidal instrument for melodic playing came later. But if it did come later, it was not much later.

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There is a painting of a dulcimer by Boccati, in 1470, in the Pinac Vannucci, in Pe rugia. The dulcimer in that painting has three bridges, and thus is a fa irly well-developed melody instrumen.t. We'll never know precisely what was the instrument shown o n Queen Melisend e's Psalter, or why it d isappeared. It may have been a bass drone, o r an actual dulcimer. But if there might have been an appearance of a dulcime r in 1135, we can date the playing of the dulcimer to somewhe re around 1400, and this, the use of the instrument, wou ld seem the best place to date it. Pe rhaps someone strung a psaltery with stronger wire, and fo und it worked to beat o n it with a stick. Or perhaps someone did the same with a chorus, around the same time, and found that it, too, worked well beaten with a stick. But from the invention of cheaper, stron ge r wire in the mid 1300's came new, practical possibilities for music, and one of these possibilities was the dulcimer.O

Bibliography Les 7i'aites d' Henri-Art/ault de Zwolle, Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, ms latin 7295, fo 1.1 29. Henry George Farmer, SlLIdies ill Oriental Music (Frankfurt am Main, 1986) v I, II. David Ke ltlewell, " Dulcime r," The New Grove Ellcyclopedia of Music, p 695 . David Kinsella, "The Capture of the Chekker," The Galpin Society Joul1lal, Ll , July 1998, P 64.

Sybil Marcuse MusicallllSlnllnellts: A Comprehensive Diciwllmy (New Yo rk, 1964) C. Page, "Early 15th c. Instruments in Jean de Gerson's cTractatus de Cant ici" Early Music, VI" (1978), p339. Curt Sachs, The HistOlY of Musicallnstmmellts, (New York, 1940).

Noles 1. A good, and revealing, photo of the Queeen Melisende Psalter is in The Glory of Byzantium , ed. Helen C. Evans (2000: Harry N. Abrams). 2. The Milanese dulcimer make r Anton ia Battaglia made a psalterio tedesco in 1770 strun g wit h gut, but despite or because of very ingenious a nd comp lex constructi on the instrument was not a success and o nly o ne example survives.

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Jacob Ray Melton: An Appreciation Whe n Jacob Ray Melton of Galax, Virginia, died at age 78 on October 28, 2000, the nation lost one of its most important links to the history of the dulcimer in America. Du lcimer making a nd dulcimer playing had passed down in the Melton family for over lOa years. Instruments made by Jacob Ray, a nd his method of play, did not derive from construction and playing techniques of the Folk Revival, and instead fai thfully reflected Virginia trad itions extending well back into the 19th century.

A Dulcimer in a Store Window I first met Jacob Ray when I attended the Galax O ld Time Fidd ler's Conve ntion in 1976. He was not a performer at the Convention, but when I was walking down the main street of Galax, I saw a Ga lax·type dulcimer in the window of a jewelry store, wi th a $50 price tag. I walked in, bought it, and learned that it had been made by Jacob Ray Melton. T he proprietor of th e store gave me directions to Jacob Ray's home, which was located on a dirt road a mile or two out of town. I didn't call ; I simply go t in my ca r and went. As I approached his house, Jacob Ray was sitting on his porch. I waved, and he waved back. We spent a wonderful morning together, with Jacob Ray answe rin g innumerable questions, and showing me how to play my new acq uisition with a stripped quill, in the o ld·time Ga lax way. This instrument ca n be seen on Jacob Ray's lap, in the photo of Jacob Ray and me, take n by my wife, Shi zuko, a yea r late r when we visited him. In his left hand he holds a stripped turkey quill for playing, and in his right hand a sma ll wooden noter with an indentat ion for his finger.

DId Features Mellon du lcimers, including this one, incorporate feat ures that predate the Civil War. The bodies of old Virginia instru· me nts are never of the hourglass shape. They are commonly of the single.curve pattern, al though some have diamond· shaped, lozenge·shaped, or box·shaped bodies. Other fea· tures include a hollowed·ou t fre tboard into which a num ber of holes have been dri lled; soundholes that often consist of either S·shaped holes or various patterns of small round holes (but neve r hearts!); the absence of a strum hollow at the foot of the fretboard; and a semicircu lar tailpiece. Most common ly, they have four strings, all tuned to the same note. The playe r depresses two of them with a noter, while the oth er two sound as drones.

In the second ha lf of the 19th century, a varian t of the Vir· ginia pattern emerged a mong dulcimer make rs of the Melton family of Carroll County. Modifications include a n increased body size and, on some instruments, a double bottom, appar· ently inte nded to prevent damping of the vibrating bOllom of

Jacob Ray Melton, seated on the porch of his house with Ralph, June 1971. The instrument is the one that Ralph saw in a jewelry store window in Galax and purchased, the preceding year Photo by Shizuko Smith.

Ralph's 1976 Jacob Ray dulcimer, top, and a dulcimer made by Jacob Ray's father, Jacob. Jacob's dulcimer has a top made of formica. It is owned by Mary Mason of Hendersonville, North Carolina. Photo by Mary

the soun dbox as the instrument sits on the playe r's lap. The earl iest datable inst rument of the type was made by Stephen Melton (1852-19 17), Jacob Ray's great·uncle, in 1891. A dia· mond·shaped instrument owned by Stephen's o lde r brothe r, Amon (1840-1925), exists, a nd is probably earlier. (See pho· tos on pages 51-52 of my book, Appalachial! Dulcimer Tradi· tions.) T hat is as far back as we can currently reach, but it is a good guess that it's not all the way back.

Jacob Ray and his Family Jacob Ray, who was born in 1923, learned to play from his mother, Lina Whittington Melton. Lina was the wife of Jacob Me lton, who was Amon's gra ndson. Jacob and two of his brothers, Raymond and Daniel, all made and played Galax· style dulcimers. When John A. Lomax, Bess Lomax, and Ru by Terrill made fie ld recordings at the O ld·Ti me Fiddler's Convention in Galax in 1937 for the Library of Congress, they recorded Lina MellOn, Jacob Melton, Myrtle Melton, Ray· mond Melton, and Blanche Melton, a ll play ing in the old· time Ga lax way! In Appalachian Dulcimer 7i'([(litioIlS, I did my best to keep the re lationships among these and other memo

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Lina Whittington Melton and Jacob Melton, Jacob Rays parents, standing, and Jacob Ray, with the family dog, Peanut, in 1958. Jacob and Lina won, respectively, first place and second place in the dulcimer competition at the Galax Did Time Fiddlers Convention in 1936. Courtesy

Dainease Melton. Left to right: Maggie Melton, Daniel Melton, and Jacob Ray Melton with his daughter Sheena, in 1958. In this picture, only Sheena did not play the dulcimer! Courtesy Dainease Melton.

bers of this amazing fam ily straight, and I can only say that I hope I got it right! Jacob Ray was a great player, but he did not compete in the Old Fiddler's Convention, played only to amuse himself, and made o nly a small number of

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instruments. "You can 't give 'em away

down here! " he said to me. I strongly encouraged him to increase his output, and, in 1993, I brought him to the Annual Dulcimer Playing Workshop at Appalachian State University, where he performed in public for the first time. Few of the Workshop attendees had ever seen a Galax-style dulcimer or heard it played, and his performance was a sensation. Jacob Ray attended the ASU Workshop annually for most of the remaining years of the 90s, bringing some dulcimers to sell, performing on stage to standing ovations, and, with his wonderful wife Dainease, making innumerable friends .

unpainted maple and pine, all finished except for its back. He had made it for a customer from the ASU Workshop, who was waiting patiently. ''I'll get that back on just soon's I can! " he said. I looked at the beautiful instrument, glowing fresh and white in the d im shed, and had the overwhelming feeling of being in the presence of a century and a half of history. The first instrument made by the first Melton who made dulcimers probably didn't look much different. 0

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Jacob Ray and Dainease Melton at the Annual Dulcimer Playing Workshop, Appalachian State University, June 1998. Photo by Mary Mason.

Jacob Ray with Miss Virginia at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Salem, Virginia, Valentines Day, February 14, 2000. Courtesy Duane Kramer.

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he re it was, nestled along with bills, ads a nd the va rious other non-essentials of modern life my mai l carrier persists in bringing me: "First Annual Southwest Dulcimer Festival." I grabbed the iron railing fo r support and eased myself onto the red brick pla nte r which surrounds the mailbox. Brain whirling with deja vu, I carefully ooched my bottom backwards amidst the bowling balls a nd carnations which inhabi t that part of our front walkway. I checked the dates on the othe r mail. Yep. Phew! I wasn't being sucked

into an anomalous tim e distorti on con-

tinuum. It was still the yea r 2000 and Anna Duff was announcing the bravest act I had yet wi tnessed in the so-called new millennium. She was bringing her love of music a nd folks and folk music to he r home- the hot northern desert of Arizona in mid-summer. ('This is crazy," I said to myself. 'fuizona in the summer?" Then I got it. This was her home, he r frie nds, he r family, he r music and her passion for bringing them all together I was witnessing. Incredible ! I was more than beguiled that Anna, or anyone these days, would proclaim something to be a "first annual" and th at's what convinced me to attend, long before I opened the flye r to see what it was all about. I confess, it hit me right in the heart. This was why I play music- it's a real risk to step into the big, wide world and say, "this is what I believe in ." She was doing just that and I admired he r for doing so. Inside the flyer I found the names of a few old fri e nds-Maddie MacNei l, Bonnie Carol, and David Schnaufer, along with those of whom I had heard a li ttle and some, frankly, I hadn't heard

of at all. That didn't matter. Adventure was upon me. Traveling to exotic places wi th the opportuni ty to meet new folk are my two greatest wea knesses- or strengths- depe nding on how yo u look a t it.

closer perusal revealed there was also an impressive line up of wo rkshops and two days of evening concerts as well as infor mation about the hosts upon wbose land we wou ld be festivaling (sic). These, I recognized, were the important, professional deta ils for people who kick tires and do festival value compariso n shopping, as most of us have done at one time or another. The necessary and real bona fides were bona fide enough. If you have read this far, the n I feel you are of that rare breed of individuals in earlier tim es referred to as "gentle

reade r" and for whom I can sum up the "working" end of the festival by simply saying: competent instructors taught a myriad of diverse subject classes well

received by enthusiastic students of both the hammered and mountain dulcimer. The evening concerts moved right along with great mc'ing and without a lot of cumbe rsome stage fumbling, presenting a wonderful sm0rgasborg of talent a nd tunes to an appreciative and eclectic audience. That's pretty concise and to the point. Now let me let you in on the intangibles- the stuff of which dreams are made. Outside of Prescott, Arizona, Stan and Jenny Young of the BeanTree Barn have roots as deep as the clover Stan told me they had in some of their fields. Fifty feet of fertile soil. Think of it. And he said the clover can go all that way down to drink from the underground wate r tables and bring nutrients to the surface. I didn't know it could send its roots so fa r. For three generations the Youngs have been there, working the land and protecting it, lately, from suburbanization and Melvina Reynolds' dire forete lling of " little houses made of ticky-tacky." This festival was anothe r way to harvest ye t more good from that giving land. Jenny headed up the kitchen staff and laid ple ntiful tables with what, I can quite qualifiedly say, was the absolute best food I have ever had the good fortune to encounter anywhere at anytime

at a folk festival. I wan t to pause a nd let that sink in. Good food. Lots of it. Served in a convivial (with life!) atmosphere. By now I hope you are multitaskin g and searching Travelocity or Cheap Tickets for "deals to the desert" airfares for Anna's second annual.but wait, there's mo rc.

Craftfolk and builders were there. They brought well-built instruments and other wares at rair prices. They also

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brought a willingness to share their craft, their tools, their expertise, tbeir music- and like most tradesfolk, their own quirky sense of humor, which I confess I greatly enjoy. In a spectacular display of her own quirkiness, Mother Nature Herself dealt them a near tragic blow (literally!) as a huge dust devil swept down upon their midway, selected one hapless booth and nearly headed back to Oz with it before the many hands of festiva l goers thwarted tbe invasion. What a sight!

peaking of the weather, yes, generally during the day it was hot. But, in the cooler evenings, marvelous thunderheads rolled in over the mounta ins and lit the sky with crackling bolts of sheer ene rgy. On the second or third day, the first tentative rains of the monsoon season sta rted in- a few drops here and there. The re is no smell like the first rain of the season falling on dry earth. Truly indescribable. It tickled sensations in me that had been gone so long from my daily life I unabashedly rejoiced in their rediscovery, inhaling the air, reawakening the dusty memories of the barley fields in the North Dakota of my youth. Not to sound hackneyed, but you know, there was a full moon, too, and it rose, just like the literature so often says, majestically over the mountains and bathed us late night denizens in its soft luminescence. No kidding. Take any Li Po poem and substitute Arizona Desert for Yangtze River and you' ll get the picture. At one juncture of time and space, a lone hawk pe rched squarely atop an old telephone pole, perfectly silhouetted against one night's lunar rising. Of these things are songs born. These are the intangibles that make one festiva l a performance, and another, poetry. It does require, however, stopping, looking, listening and leaving room for the Muse to catfoot in. As for listening, the sit-around-andjam part of the festival, I met some great pickers who weren't overly shy and who had wonderful mastery of their instruments- banjo, guitar, hammered dulcimer, mountai n dulcimer, a

fiddle and mandolin or two and Stan, our land host, on the aluminum cello. Yep, aluminum . Not to be missed. I met some children, one in particular who was there with he r mother and grandmo th e r to play music- not the ad ults, the girl. Therein I was privileged to witness a new burble in this well-spring of what we call fo lk music.

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will go again and I invite you to do the same. It is a festival which is made viable by the participants, the unique location and the gene rosity of Spirit found the re. Anna shared with us her home, heart, friends and family. Those of us who have been on the road (does this sound like a CSN song?) know that without our fam ilies and friends-in Anna's case, husband AI, son Stanton, Chris and Ann Foss of Songbird Dulcimers, Stan a nd Nancy Young to name a few-and wi thout the generosity and the goodwill of people li ke them, songsmithing and minstrelsy are hollow gestures at best. Thank you, new frie nds and old friends. If I didn't me ntion your name, I still saw your face on the screen before me, smiling as I wrote these few lines. You are, we are the Folk of folkmusic. Thank you, Anna, for envisioning that

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Musical Reviews edited by Neal Walters

he hammered dulcimer playing of St. Louis' Rick Thurn has been featured prominently in this column in the past. This time it's not his playing but his teaching skills that are deserving of special mention. Samantha Oberkfell is one of Rick's students whose playing is both wonderfully like Rick's and yet decidedly individual at the same time. She wo n the Southern Region Hammered Dulcimer contest in Mt. View, Arkansas in 1999 and was the second place winner at Winfield in 2000. Her new album is Cow Spots and it's been on my player several times since it arrived. She plays fast, cleanly, and with the kind of syncopation that makes your feet want to move on traditional fiddle tunes li ke Ragtime Annie, Mississippi Sawyer, Seneca Square Dance and St. Anne's Reel. She also

writes great original material: Cow Spots, Bethany's Winter, and Krooked Sam a ll demonstrate her thoroughly delightful combination of flair and whimsy. She gets great support from Carole Bryan (3rd place wi nner at Winfield in 2000) on hammered dulcimer and banjo, from Eri ca Randolph and Linda Sm ith o n flutes (Linda also plays cello), from Mike Tiefenbrun on bass, a nd from Rick Thurn himself on guitar and bodhran. This is a fine debut recording and a great introduction to a budding superstar in hammered dulcimer circles.

am Rizzetta's newest recording plays (p un intended) tribute to a number of Sam's West Virgi nia musica l influences in addit ion to a couple of rural waterways and an assortm ent of pet cats. Sam is a masterful musician who, in recent years, has focused on mostly original material. On Dulcimer Boogie he moves easily

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with strings. Celtic Cafe is subtitled " Irish, French, a nd Fle mish music from the cultura l crossroads of Europe" and fea tu res Belgian a nd Bre ton dance tunes, Wa lloon and French Carillon sets, Style Musette, Scottish pipe tunes and a sweeping Napoleon Suite. The CD celebrates an institution that contributed mightil y to the deve lopment and vitality o f fol k music-the cafe and its Irish cousin, the pub. Karen and Pa ul have spent countless late nights in these venues "sessioning" with older musicians a nd listening to the lore of the buskers or street performers. They have learn ed thei r lessons well as many of yo u will kn ow from seeing them at festivals a nd music camps throughout the country. Accompanime nt comes from a who's who of great musicians such as Bonnie R ideo ut and Andrea Hoag on fid dles; Ma rk Hillman on uillean pipes; Bobby Read on woodwinds; a nd Ralph Gordon on bass. This is music yo u don't hear every day and Karen and Paul play it beauti full y. The arrangeme nts are

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ety of styles and approaches to the instrument. Although most of the tunes are take n from existing recordings, I think it's unlikely that many people will have heard them all and, for new players in particular, this is as good an introduction to the many voices of the instrument as you're likely to find in one place. This recording should serve to acquai nt people with some really excellent musicians whose playing deserves widespread recognition.

inally, in the wait ' till you hear this de partment, I'm reminded that o nce in a while you come across a recording that demonstrates th at ordinary folks-people that you actually know and talk to a t dulcimer club meetings and jam sessions-make wonderful music too. Of course those who know the Wright family unde rstand completely that they are anything but ordinary and I meant my remarks in the most complime ntary

way (Jerry put down that jellyroll! ). The Family Album is just plain good liste ning. Margaret plays mo untain dulcimer and sings; Je rry plays pickin ' stick, bones, bodhran and sings; Ho llis plays autoharp and dulcimette; and Lloyd [see the Winter 2001 DPN for a profile of Lloyd] plays banjo a nd guitar. Fiddler Bill Thurman (who has his own fine recording listed in the What's New section) adds some sweet fidd le and sings a bit too, while Ken Ryan plays a solid bass. The album is beautifully recorded, the arra ngements are well thought out, and the tunes are a good combination of standard jam tunes and memorable songs. The si ngi ng-Je rry sings lead, Margaret does the harmony-is straig htforward, heartfelt and down home nice. For my money the Wrights have set a standard that a lot of people should look to whe n thin king abou t making a recording. Great job, folks! 0

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Embellishing Lively Tunes Your assignment: come up with an interesting second- or third-time-through for a lively tune. You're welcome to use my version of "Rock the Cradle, Joe." I think live ly tunes are harder to embellish because, if I add lo ts and lots of things, the tune wi ll bog down. Have you ever heard someone play a very wellknown tune with so many embellishments it became unrecognizable? Bogged down? Let me introd uce you to some embellishments. First, Repeated Notes. R ather than playing a particular note "as written," do uble up on some notes. For example, play a couple of eighths instead of the qu arter note that's the "normal" note in that position. Played unmusically, with all the no tes getting the same emphasis and volume, repeated notes sound ciangy and ho rrid. Played musically, your hammers just dance on the strings. Try emphasizing the first note in your group or pair of repeated no tes. A drummer told me the term Drag is correct for the move in which I do a 2-stroke roll on the first of a pair of notes. If you can't do just the 2 strokes with one finger squeeze o n the hammer handle, do whatever quick roll you can muster. Try Changing The Melody a second or third time through. When done correctly, just enough notes are changed to make a nice variatio n. If you wander too far from the melody for too long, the tune is lost. It's the instrumental version of what Willie Nelson does to tunes. Yo u always know where he's been and can pretty much figure out where he'll end up, but there are changes in between that add to the interest of the hearing. Good old-time and bluegrass fiddlers are real masters at this. Sticki ng a little something on at the end of the tune is said to be adding a Tag. Listen to bluegrass guitarists- they come up with some really fl ashy tags to tunes. In its simplest form, a tag is just a couple of no tes that make a sort-of "that's aU" to the end. In its expanded fo rm, a tag can add several measures to the end. Learn this tune or choose another. Then, familiarize yourself with the way the embellishments discussed above affect the melody by taking each o ne, in turn, and playing a melody with lots and lots of them. For example, take " Rock The Cradle, Joe" and slop repeated notes all over the place. No other embellishment - just gobs of repeated notes. Play it through a couple of times, determining where you like putting in the repeated notes. Then, choose two to fo ur places where they sound particularly nice and leave them in there. Now, do the same thing with drags, putting them everywhere you've chosen not to put repeated notes. Then, eliminate until you're satisfied. Some embe llishme nts seem to add more weight to the tune than others; swoops and arpeggios seem "heavier" to me than the embellishments I'm using for this. But, there's nothing sacrosanct about my choices. For questio ns, advice, requests, contact me at 309 Pennsylva nia Dr., Denton, TX 76205 or Ilt6@earthlink.net. 0

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The Fox I've done a bit of reflecting on music, travel, and life this fall in the aftermath of my Dad's death. It was bis and my Mom's folk music recordings of Burl Ives and others from the 1950s and '60s that first got me interested in music. As a child I remembe r singing folk songs while walking and rid ing with Dad. Later he and I played tag with trips to Europe, joining up on occasion in Austria, Germany, and Italy. We enjoyed music together in Salzburg, Munich, and Florence. Between us we covered most of the British Isles, sharing our unique adventures and common loves. We both really liked CornwaU, and that reminds me of the song to foUow. We both e njoyed "The Fox," a tale, almost a short ballad, of a fox's travels to get a goose a nd duck for his wife and kits. With a good story, some silly tongue-twisting lyrics and a bit of a refrain, it was fun to sing. I sang the ve rsion printed here, collected during a trip to Cornwall. I learned it over a couple of evenings of drinking cider ill a Cornish pub in, I believe, SI. Malo. I have arranged this version of "The Fox" in D for a three-stringed du lcimer. I have kept the chording simple so as not to distract from the song itself. A strummed or picked accompa niment style will work nicely. Playing the me lody through a couple of times adds a va riant to the lyrics. I once medleyed the "Foxhunter's Jig" with this 4/4 tune. The rhythm cha nges from 6/8 to 4/4 and back were a challenge, but it made for a rollicking set. 0

Words to "The Fox:'

Now the fox came out one wintry night And prayed to the moon to give him light, He'd many a mile to go that night Before he reached his Den, D! Den, O! Den, O! For he'd many a mile to go that night Before he reached his Den, O!

At last he came to a farmer's pen Where the ducks and the geese were put therein. "A couple of you shall grease my chin Before I leave this town, O! " Town. O! Town, O! "A couple of you shall grease my chin Before I leave this town, O! " Then he grabbed the grey goose by the neck And laid the duck across his back. He didn't mind their "Quack, Quack, Quack," And their legs all dangling down O! Down, O! Down, O! He didn't mind their "Quack, Quack, Quack," And their legs all dangling down O! Now Old Mother Flipper Flapper jumped out of bed. Down went the window, she popped out her head Yelling '~ohn, John, the grey goose is gone, And the Fox is gone to town, O! Town. O! Town, O! Yelling '~ohn, John, the grey goose is gone, And the Fox is gone to town, O! Now old John rushed to the top of the hill And blowed his horn both loud and shrill "Blow on," said the Fox, "your music still, While I trot home to my Den, O!" Den, O! Den, O! Blow on," said the Fox, "your music still, While I trot home to my Den, O! " And when he came to his cozy den To his wife and his young ones, eight, nine, ten. They cried, "Daddy, you must go again: It sure is a mighty fine town, O! " Town. O! Town, O! They cried, "Daddy, you must go again: It sure is a mighty fine town, O!" So the Fox and his wife without any strife Carved up the goose without fork or knife. The young ones said, "Twas the best of their life," As they nibbled on the bones, O! Bones, O! Bones, O! The young ones said, "Twas the best of their life," As they nibbled on the bones, O!

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