Monday, October 19, 2009

Scenes from the Macro-World - Dulcimer

Yesterday you saw a picture of me playing my mountain dulcimer. Did I convey how much I love that dulcimer in the post? Let's put it this way - in that old clichéd question "If your house was on fire and you could only save one thing, what would it be?" my answer is always gonna be the dulcimer. It's handcrafted, it's beautiful, and it has a beautiful voice. I bought it from Folkcraft Instruments in 1989; it's in their CSH line, with a Northern Cherry body and a Western Red Cedar soundboard. They still sell it; here's the listing. It's a beautiful piece of craftsmanship!

So after I got done posing with the guitar and the dulcimer yesterday, I took some close-ups of the dulcimer itself, so you'll all get a chance to look at the beautiful grain and maybe get an idea of the silky feel of the wood. Enjoy!




© 2009 by A. Roy Hilbinger

7 comments:

  1. It's a work of art alright. You should post a sound byte of your playing.

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  2. I was hoping you would tell us a bit more about that marvelous dulcimer. I totally agree with Baino. I would love to hear you play.

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  3. Yes, there are getting to be too many requests to hear you play for you to be able to ignore them. I add mine to the list.

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  4. Cool, Roy! Such a beautiful instrument...now....let's hear a clip of you playing it!!! :-)

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  5. Nope! It's been a long time since I sat down and actually put some work into playing, and right now the quality produced is okay for noodling around by myself as stress relief, but is nowhere near good enough for public consumption. My photography started taking over the time I spent on music a long time ago, and I'm just not up to public performance standard any more.

    You can always type "dulcimer" into YouTube's search engine if you want to listen to people who can actually play the thing.

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  6. Oh pooh. We're not asking for "public performance standard." We want to see YOU playing it.

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