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Tag Archives: dulcimer
Courting Dulcimer Christmas
Such a charming video by John and Karen Keane. You must watch this, especially if you’ve never seen a courting dulcimer… and especially if you love good music!
Mini Box Dulcimer
by Goschenhobel
Two children’s songs played in noter-drone style on a slim, short scale box dulcimer made by Goschenhobel in about 5 hours.
The facts: poplar plywood top and (double) back, strips of oak for the sides and beech blocks (for the string nails and the zither pins) on the left and right.
Length 60 cm (24″), width 20 cm (8″), height 3,7 cm (1 1/2″); scale length 54 cm (about 21 1/2″). Three strings (0.12, 0.16, 0.24) tuned to Gdg.
Citi na gCumman
This delightful performance is by Linda Brockinton. Oh my, so lovely.
On Rannoch Moor
OH GO WEST HIGHLAND WAY
FOR RANNOCH MOOR
OH GO WEST HIGHLAND WAY
THE CURLEW CRIES
ON RANNOCH MOOR
AND YOU WILL HEAR THAT CRYIN’
AND THAT’S WHAT YOU CAME FOR
AND IT WILL TAKE YOU DOWN
ON RANNOCH MOOR
OH GO WEST HIGHLAND WAY
FOR RANNOCH MOOR
GO WEST HIGHLAND WAY
THE CURLEW CRIES
ON RANNOCH MOOR
– by Mary MacGowan
Joe Gibson
Lyrics and tune by Mary MacGowan, with shades of Scottish
Today My Love Is Come To Me
Another C. Rossetti poem.
(I need a quieter pick!)
when i am dead my dearie
This is a work in progress… a somewhat clumsy beginning of a new tune I’m writing for Christina Rossetti’s sad sad poem, altho there’s been some discussion about just how sad it really is.
Hello and welcome to my many new followers. You make my heart glad!
Tavern
Tavern, poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tune and singing by Mary MacGowan
Bluesy Leatherwing Bat
Dulcimer blues by Dusty Turtle, I just love this.
One Mississippi
Written years ago by Andrea Loftus and me, this song has taken on many different personalities. I’m really liking how it sounds with me playing dulcimer…
Wildwood Flower
Mountain Dulcimer Group in Germany, with ukuleles too.
Mary’s Song
This song’s title is from a poem with the same title by Marion Angus, a Scottish poet popular at the turn of the century. I decided to “Americanize” her words because she used a lot of Gaelic and it didn’t feel right for me. Youtube gave me the option to create this old-fashioned look, sepias and faded, lovin’ it.
The Plea – a fragment from Milnoid’s dulcimer opera The Thief (yes, dulcimer opera)
You’ll love this, and then you’ll really love it about 20 seconds in!
Milnoid writes, “I live in the mountains outside of Hong Kong with my wife, two small children and a very large number of mountain dulcimers.”
Young Folks Making Music in a Cave
“Whiskey Before Breakfast” played by Nathaniel Samsel, Eli Kirk, Abra Kirk, Eliora Kirk
I love this!
Keepsake Mill
Took Stevenson’s poem and put it to music. One verse is so charming, about a quarrel, that I made it the chorus.
Lass of Patie’s Mill
Happy sigh . . . ! Such beautiful and seamless playing!
Old Lady Stink take 2
Can you believe I’m still at it with this song?
A guy named Dusty Turtle gets credit for a lot of the new lyrics.
We done good, Dusty.
La Marianne
Old Lady Stink
What can I say? this is my goofy song from this morning, couldn’t resist
Cluck ‘N Roll Cluck Old Hen
from Geeklingsaurus, O how I love thee!
Skye Boat Song so sweetly played by Guy (dulcibard)
Find Guy and his beautiful dulcimer playing on youtube: dulcibard
I Never Will Marry
The dulcimer in my hands is a bit crude, but I sing kinda sweet!