A New Way to Play

Back in 1985, long before the internet, when I began to learn to play the mountain dulcimer, I realized that the Dulcimer Players News was an invaluable source of dulcimer-related information.  There are very few back issues that I do not have, some of the first issues in the mid-70's being simple stapled-together mimeographed sheets.  To this day, the arrival of the latest issue via 1st class snail mail is a quarterly delight.  But enough of this.  The arrival of the Summer, 2010 issue (Volume 36, Number 3) of the Dulcimer Players News opened up, at least for me, a whole new way to tune and play the dulcimer. Within that issue of DPN, in an article entitled "1-3-5: A New Voice For Your Dulcimer", Merv Rowley explained what this was all about.  You can read Rowley's article by clicking "Expand" and then "mousing" over to "10-11" and "12-13" of the on-line display AFTER clicking  here .  This allows you to see pages 8 through 10 of the original DPN article.  Pretty interesting reading and included is the tab for the familiar tune "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".  There's lots more on-line information about this "new way to play" at  1-3-5 .  And now, at last, I have time to really concentrate on this approach to the dulcimer.  As I learn "hands on" more about it, I'll "share" my thoughts here within the blog.  Later . . .

It's Been Awhile

Greetings to All,

     Having recently relinquished my leadership role for the Bellingham Dulcimer Club, I now have the time - as well as the inclination - to return again to this blog.  Looks like "it's been awhile", like since September of 2011, since I have posted anything to it.  I'll start today to rectify that:  enlarging text to be more readable, adding links to upcoming "close-by" dulcimer-related activities, sharing of a "new" way to tune and play the mountain dulcimer, et cetera., et cetera., et cetera . . .   Later . . .