Appalachian Dulcimer - Amy Fabbri - The Mountain Traditions Project 

Thank you for sharing Amy. 11 years later, can I ask you what pic you use? 😅

Yay! Keep playing and sharing!

😊All those things we let happen to us. Can I add greed, excessive comforts and needless electronics?

@@victorrodea7163 if we are making a list of things "we let happen" they is so much more to be added that we would need another sheet of paper. And change in its self isn't a bad thing. Life doesn't tarry with what was, because it is creating what is. However, just because we are moving forward doesn't mean we have to discard the past. The past is what roots us into the present.

@@roger5322 thanks Roger never been analyzed for free. From your tome and statement you've been killed by all modern amenities. Enjoy.

@@victorrodea7163 only the dead know no amenities. To proclaim differently while using such amenities is a bit hypocritical. I'd suggest you change your tone before you get on a pedestal and preaching as to what another should do.

@@roger5322 yes it is hypocritical. As to the pedestal no room you already take up a lot of room on that pedestal. Have a great life rig.

Terry G Wilson Thank you so much!

You are very welcome.

It is no secret with oe

That's "Cluck Old Hen" I think.

***** Yes- "Cluck Old Hen"

could i buy one from u? i'd like to try to learn it 😃

FreeD, Please contact me (curt.at.bouterse.dot.com) I research and collect old dulcimers & would like to find out more about your grandad & his instrs.

It seems very similar to Scarborough fair

Gàidheal gu bràth. ;)

Streamtramman, you are talking about Scotland, is it still like this, real old school? They did not get electricity till the 1950's? Is there still some real remote places in Scotland with no electricity, or at least places where people get together and do this kind of thing?

@@michaelcraig9449 I wouldn't be so surprised about that date. My father could remember the first house to get electricity in his street (his Aunt Jinny) and that was late 1940s/early 1950s. He was brought up in a street of one-up-one-down back-to-back houses in a northern industrial city in England, Bradford.

Thing is, Appalachians tend to be descended from Ulster Scots, who originally came from the Lowlands. There wasn't a strong distinction to be sure until the Davidian Reforms and similar changes saw things like Gaelic disappear from the Lowlands. I'm not going to touch on the sectarianism. And more recently the industrial age saw many ruralites and Highlanders move to the big Lowland cities (Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, for jobs etc. Now, "after Sir Walter Scott, we are all Highlanders,"

They are being passed down. Check out Elizabeth Laprelle and Clifton Hicks.

AzRavngrl, where can one get a dulcimer, and how much does one cost?

I do the chordstick personally. Many people confuse it with the 'dulcitar' AKA walking dulcimer (which is a guitar-played version of the Appalachian mountain dulcimer), but they are technically 2 separate instruments with 2 separate origins. I love all the traditional mountain instruments, chordsticks, dulcimers, washboards, octo wood-top banjos, diddly bows/'canjos', Cigar Box (tenor) Guitars, autoharps, spoons, lap harps, psalteries, git-fiddles, etc. There are probably many more that I am not aware of or have been lost to history. The Appalachian people had very little and often had to make do with hybrid instruments made out of pre-made parts like cans, staple frets, fence wire, and wood boxes.

Leslie- The dulcimer I played in this video was made by Bill Taylor out of Tennessee.

My mom bought her first dulcimer at Silver Dollar City, which I eventually inherited. Happy picking to you!

And to you! My Ozark picking sister!

Michael Craig -Yes people do still live like this and the Appalachian Dulcimer is actually making a big comeback. It is very well known in the Eastern part of the US. I play though not as well as her. Though with time I sure hope too.

I would sure like to meet some of these old school folks, and play some tunes with them.

Yes Michael, people still live like that to this present day. I came from those Eastern Kentucky mountains but now live in the North Georgia mountains. I play the Appalachian Dulcimer but, since moving to the Georgia Mountains got introduced to the Hammered Dulcimer, a lovely sounding instrument even older than the Mountain Dulcimer. So many of the old Scottish and Irish fiddle tunes fit so well on the Hammered Dulcimer.

@@michaelcraig9449 There's a dulcimer shop in Townsend, TN near Pigeon Forge that still hand makes Appalachian or Mountain Dulcimers and in the summer they do a porch pickin'. It's still very common in the Southeastern U.S. to see Dulcimers, both the Appalachian Dulcimer and the Hammer Dulcimer.

SmarterNotHarder25 And they are not just doing it as a "retro vintage" thing, like a bunch of bearded tattood fake hipsters kind of thing? They are old school for real people? I sure would like to meet them..so tired of fake people with no souls or substance.

skunk breath how is it like a Jews harp? Which is a sort of wind instrument