Christmas is coming, and you’re probably thinking about what to buy your children for Christmas. What about a mountain dulcimer? If you’ve already gotten everyone a dulcimer, what about a 6 month membership to Dulcimer Crossing? It’s time to start thinking about these things, since it’s almost that time of year again! Or you might […]
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HYFRYDOL, new Mountain Dulcimer Lesson by Karen Mueller
by Steve Eulberg Across many Christian worship traditions, tunes from Welsh composers are favorites. The Ash Grove comes to mind, but from my survey, when researching and writing my book Dulcimer-Friendly Worship, Vol 1: the season of Advent, the tune that won the popularity contest of being the setting for so many hymns in so […]
Higgedy Jig for Hammered Dulcimer
by Steve Eulberg We are excited to announce a new Hammered Dulcimer lesson for our subscribers: Higgedy Jig A fun jig, this tune was composed by Steve’s fiddling buddy, Vi Wickam for his 2012 Fiddle Tune A Day video series. Here he plays the tune for Day 181. Together Steve and Vi are Fiddle Whamdiddle. […]
Expanding Noter Style
Linda Ratcliff & Steve Eulberg If you want to play your Appalachian mountain dulcimer in the old traditional style, you will use a noter on the melody string(s), leaving the other 2 strings open to create a drone sound. We have developed several lessons that use a “noter,” so we decided to add a new […]
Say NO to Boring
Have you ever been to a jam session and wondered how many times they’re going to repeat….
First Lessons on Youtube
Here’s another new thing we’re doing…