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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Darding feels connection between music and nature BY MELANIE YINGST Ohio Community Media myingst@tdnpublishing.com
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Harold Darding of Ludlow Falls plays a melody with one of his flutes outside the historic Knoop House Thursday at Lost Creek Reserve. Darding is a part of the Miami Valley Flute Circle. and I just listened and I didn’t bother him,” Darding said. Later he took up the trade of making Native American flutes himself after retiring from the rock n’ roll road and instead, trading it for the “Red Road,” or the Native American circle of life. “I got pretty good at playing the flute and then people would come up to me at gatherings and say, ‘Oh you’re the flute man,’” he said. Darding retired as a drafting, modern trades and math teacher from Dayton Public Schools. He now teaches music in his Ludlow Falls home that he shares with his wife Rachel. Darding encourages anyone who is eager to learn more about any instrument he plays to contact him so he can pass on his love of music. “I love to give back and show how people how to play,” Darding said. For more information about the “Red Barn Melodies” visit www.miamicountyparks.com.
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MIAMI COUNTY — When Harold Darding picks up his Native American flute or his favorite instrument, the dulcimer, you can feel the connection of both nature and music. Darding will be one of the many local musicians featured “Red Barn Melodies” beginning at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Lost Creek Reserve and Knoop Agricultural Center, 2645 E. State Route 41. “I love that sound,” Darding said of his classic dulcimer after playing and singing “Pretty Saro.” Darding, of Ludlow Falls, also plays the harmonica and the guitar, which he plans to feature at the “Music Picnic” among the oak trees at the reserve. “Here’s a guy who used to play in a southern rock band, traveling around the country, and now I’ve gone back to the old times and the old days,” Darding said with a laugh. “Singing Horse,” Darding’s Native American name, said his grandmother taught him how to play the dulcimer, but he taught himself how to play the guitar. “I just listened,” Darding said of his musical gifts. Darding said it was on a road trip through Nebraska where he tried to meet an author and professor who wrote “Black Elks Speaks.” Yet, the author had passed away before he met him. The widow of the author invited Darding into their home where he heard the Native American flute and it was love at first note. “What is that sound? I had never heard a Native American flute before. What is that sound? I asked her,” Darding said. Traveling to an Indian Reservation in Canada, Darding heard the flute once again. “I heard that sound again and there’s a man sitting there and he’s playing
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