You can turn the note information on or off – great for picking out tunes if your dot skills are a bit wobbly! The sound is also quite credible and must be a digital recording of a real dulcimer. There are 12 pre-recorded tunes, and the strings illuminate slightly when digitally ‘hit’ on playback so you can see where they are. You can play along, or make up a harmony, or just pretend that it’s you playing! You can also record your own tunes, which is great for committing your musical doodles to more than your own memory. It’s available from the iTunes App Store for £1.49, although you’ll probably have to Google search it, rather than search the App Store (Dulcimer HD for iPad). As HDs aren’t the easiest of instruments to cart around, it’s also quite handy to have this available on those occasions where you fancy having a bit of a play, but you wouldn’t normally have the instrument on or about your person. Luckily for the person sat next to you on the train, or at the Doctors surgery, iPads have a headphone socket. Eric Woulds [My doctor's always telling me to bring my HD into the surgery and play it to him. I do realise that he's probably the exception though... Ed.]
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Message from Margaret: Membership and Newsletter Delivery Options Update Just to let you know that the current membership stands at 168, including 13 new members, and 2 returning members from earlier years. This is similar to other years, with around 40 people who have not renewed from last year. Only 3 of these do not have email. I have sent email reminders to the rest and they have not been returned as undeliverable. The numbers normally pick up to around 200, with late renewals and new members as the year progresses. Very few of those of you who pay by standing order have let me know your newsletter delivery preference, so have received this newsletter by post, by default. Please let me know if you would like to receive it by some other method i.e. email, or on the members' area of the website instead. Margaret Arton margaretarton@btinternet.com
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