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Silly I've been playing the dulcimer since 1987. I live in Washington state. Get off the monopoly of "tied into the land" It's a heart thing. Let go the ego

Wonderful video! if you're not already familiar with the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina then you should check it out. They'd be right up your ally, and you theirs. Thanks!

Love this music 🥹🥰

Thank ya for sharing only if we could go back in time,but the music of mountain folk it seems to relax with the sounds❤❤❤

Hello. I am blind user of RUclips. I have a question. This dulcimer is played with capo, or no? Thank You.

Remarkable how similar this music is to medieval European songs.

Well cousin hang in there.

Love it!

The dulcimo is a german instrument known from the middleages! Interesting to find it in Appalachians - didn´t know that.

26/06/96 Castle area in Budapest I heard a busker playing something I'd never seen before. I sketched it in my diary. It looked like half of this instrument, two bouts on one side only, I noted Frets, 4 strings treble melody. Frets 3 strings mids, 3 or 4 drones. The treble and mid courses were two different fret scales. It was another two decades before I found this Appalachian tradition.

You are as pretty as a mountain flower in the spring I'm shore there's a lucky gentleman...

Defo Irish in that song..maybe bit of game of thrones😁👍

I grew up in the mountains of western north Carolina in the 60s and 70s. She is right, we are losing the old ways. We were poor, but we was mostly happy. I don't see much happiness these days. We used to look after each other, now we only look out for ourselves. We took care of ourselves, now we look to others to provide for us. What happened to us?

anyone know what tuning she's using?

SisStar...;;~} .. I was fortunate enough to meet Gene Ritchie at the San Diego folk festival several times in the early 70s... one of my best friends made one in 1969.. so I learned to love the dulcimer... lots of room on my back porch... ;;~} desde la Sierra Estrella de Arizona mi casa es su casa stop by... any Time

I love this !!

So thoughtful and powerful. Thank you

The dulcimer is similar to the European epinette des Vosges, but missing a couple drone strings. With gut strings, it's almost inaudible. The sound box is too small. Steel strings don't become widely available in America until the 1890's and this is most likely the time when the Appalachian or Mountain dulcimer comes into its own, the early 20th century. I think it is particularly suited to solo voice and story telling. I've had one and been performing with it for over 50 years. I am not particularly fond of electrified modern ones, but there are some terrific dulcimer makers out there.

That’s a mountain dulcimer, not a hammer dulcimer. They’re different.

Never let this woman sing again

gaelic basesd

Cool instrument. She sounds like the real deal.

my heart skipped a beat when I heard her say home❤️ thank you for keeping our culture alive

Descendant of melungeon here. We only retained the concept of drones

When I lived in Clifton forge Virginia a lady played them in church was great sounds

💖, the more I watch these type of videos, makes me want to move there. I feel such a connection.

I feel your music, I came to WA. state with my parents in 1963, my roots are still in Whitesburg KY and Wise VA.

The music reminds me of the movie Songcatcher. Love it. Thank you.

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MIA Fanshawe student over here

So great that you're keeping this rich tradition alive.

But I loved your presentation. Too bad that gone are the days that people gathered around live music as families and whole communities.

And then there's hammered dulcimer too... which is a bit different.

The zither is similar too, no?

Thanks for sharing the background of the Appalachian dulcimer and taking us on a musical journey back to our roots.

You speak so well and true about Trad Folk and I had a UK Aunt who travelled though out the mountains with Cecil Sharp on a peddle bike collecting songs using a phonograph (Wax cylinder) and lets hope another surge of Folk becomes strong again....as in the 1960/70!

I know that band! At the very beginning. The person who is singing at the very beginning of that song, was my eighth grade and ninth grade English teacher. The song is called place by place. And the person who was my eighth grade and ninth grade English teacher and who sings at the very beginning of that song, is Mr. John Felton.

Awesome stuff - thanks for sharing and documenting

Very interesting!

Not a single Appalachian in this video, just a bunch of Midwest or northern trust fund babies.

Oooo this is my next instrument...so pretty! Love Jean Ritchie songs too.

Reminds me of the Turkish baglama in the way it has three courses of strings, or a distant relative of the Finnish kantele. Sounds fantastic!

Thanks so much for sharing. Love the music. God bless you all always

7:00 Would love to see a video on how to use those poppy plant "heads" into a tonic to treat a toothache or migraine.

I'm originally from London, England now living in Central Kentucky. I am currently making my 6th dulcimer. The immigrant tradition continues.

Excellent. Beautifully done!

Absolutely wonderful, powerful and caring. ❤️

What a beautiful and meaningful project. I could really feel the love and pride. 🙂🎶

Wonderful!

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