by Steve Eulberg This Appalachian tune, collected and added to by John Jacob Niles, is a lovely, haunting Aeolian melody that fits so well on the mountain dulcimer in DAC tuning. Steve’s mountain dulcimer lesson series explores playing this tune in traditional drone-style, as well as in a flatpicked melody across the strings, and with […]
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Benefits and Limitations of Different Tunings on Mountain Dulcimer? Part 1
by Steve Eulberg So how does one choose between the benefits and the limitations of different tunings when playing mountain dulcimer? To me the most important factors in this decision are: 1) What kind of dulcimer do I have? Is it “traditional” (with no extra frets like 6-1/2 or 1-1/2)? 2) What kind […]