Pachelbel Canon in D Fantasia for hammered dulcimer 

@@ninasvids507 what do you call someone who hangs around with a bunch of musicians? A percussionist.

@@andyhiscox2750 since piano is percussion that makes me laugh =P

They really arent hard to tune once you have the tools

Here is the same piece done on a similar instrument but played slower and in a different manner. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-srysf2KQ2C8.html

Thank you for the comment! The hammered dulcimer is actually one of the easiest instruments to learn to play basic things on, especially for people who have not done music before. It's worth trying!

Wow

Same tho

I’m still watching it too- I only discovered 4 or 5 years ago 😂

I'm with you...not much makes me cry and this does....

Study Brian Jones.

I recommend getting a dulcimer and starting to explore what comes easiest to you to make sounds that please you the most! Everybody seems to go a different direction on the instrument. Pachelbel's Canon itself is impossible to play on the dulcimer, so I decided to use chord structures and fragments of the melody to make a flowing arrangement. One technique I'm using in four of the sections is a ragtimey separated-hands method that, once you get the knack, comes very easily from then on, like riding a bike. Another technique that is quite doable is the fast arpeggios from right to left, just a repeating zigzag that looks a lot harder than it actually is. The biggest factor, though, is expression: every note is voiced with a certain kind of strike to make the piece come alive, rather than playing too evenly like a music box or harpsichord. This is especially doable when you use a powerful repeating set of chords like the ones in Pachelbel's Canon! They're D A Bm F#m G D Em A over and over.

@@timothyseaman Thank you for this explanation and enlightenment. Rather than “prescribing” a fixed “how long” answer, you’ve given a response both instructional and inspiring to all who aspire to reach a level of playing that can begin even to dream of playing this piece. Thank you, and thank you for sharing your music - this is permeatingly beautiful.

@@timothyseaman I am awestruck!

Absolutely incredible!

Thank you! Actually, there's NO extra reverb here --- just the ringing of this Dusty Strings D600 dulcimer, one of the first made and thus very seasoned in tone. There's a little bit of sound from the walls of our living room, but it's mostly just the dulcimer. Dusty Strings has about medium sustain length among different brands of dulcimers, I think.

Timothy Seaman Thank you

Yes. 1:40 onwards took me to tears.

It actually is a carefully laid out episodic plan, and it turned out to work! It also isn't actually a tune, but a strategy to vary improvisations over a repeating set of chords.

Man, nice arrangement and well played!

There are tricks that make it easy to get great sounds in a short amount of time.

@@timothyseaman I need to learn the tricks.I can play my mountain dulcimers & recorded 12 songs that I wrote. I would like to do the same with my Hammered Dulcimer. I don’t read music I just play by sound. I will have to keep it til I finally get what chords everyone starts in. Thank you for your response ❤️

Here's the original 2004 audio track --- in the middle of the medley --- with my improvising flute added.