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The Hammered Dulcimer
Smithsonian Institution ^ | PIMS/AH19-9/81B, updated 10/97 | Authored by Sam Rizzetta

Posted on 04/27/2024 9:16:42 PM PDT by kawhill

The hammer dulcimer is capable of a range of tones from a sort of music-box sound to powerful and percussive piano-like effects which can stand out in any band.

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Saw a man play this instrument in Missouri one time, his name was John. Wrote and played his own tunes. A very rare, unique and enormous talent. Was wondering about other dulcimer players.
1 posted on 04/27/2024 9:16:42 PM PDT by kawhill
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As a drummer I always wanted one. Found several plans back when to build your own. Never got to play one though.


2 posted on 04/27/2024 9:18:45 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Amazing instrument. Here's a talented young man playing it...

Scarborough Fair | Pure Hammered Dulcimer | Joshua Messick

3 posted on 04/27/2024 9:20:39 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: kawhill

You need to listen to Rich Mullins music.


4 posted on 04/27/2024 9:23:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: kawhill

Rich Mullins songs:

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=rich+mullins+hammered+dulcimer+songs+


5 posted on 04/27/2024 9:29:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: kawhill

BTW, great article. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 04/27/2024 9:32:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Here's one from a guy named Tony Elman. Saw him live back in the late 80s.

Arkansas Traveller/Sailor's Hornpipe

7 posted on 04/27/2024 9:35:27 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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Here’s a human being who I saw tonight play. His name is John too. The Creator has not made many of us who are this gifted at something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvNnnkYdti8


8 posted on 04/27/2024 9:56:35 PM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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You’ll want to check out Trapezoid - a quarted of hammered dulcimer players!

https://youtu.be/vvURRnpDHjs


9 posted on 04/27/2024 9:57:20 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: kawhill

A friend of mine in college made a plucked mountain dulcimer as a project for a music course. Being brilliant, he also learned to play it quite well and aced the course.


10 posted on 04/27/2024 10:23:57 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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John Jacob Niles sang in a high falsetto and played Appalachian dulcimers which he made himself. His recordings were often very haunting.


11 posted on 04/27/2024 10:35:35 PM PDT by punchamullah
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Give a listen to ‘Little Black Star’ by Niles.


12 posted on 04/27/2024 10:41:03 PM PDT by punchamullah
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Give a listen to ‘Little Black Star’ by Niles.


13 posted on 04/27/2024 10:42:24 PM PDT by punchamullah
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Beautiful!


14 posted on 04/27/2024 10:44:25 PM PDT by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: kawhill

Check out Joemy Wilson.


15 posted on 04/27/2024 10:49:50 PM PDT by Jim Hill
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To: Openurmind

From time to time I work with a woman who built her own at 17 and has played professionally for decades. As I square dance caller I am asked to work with live music once or twice a year and for many of those events we have built a band around Karen and her hammered dulcimer.


16 posted on 04/28/2024 12:31:17 AM PDT by jimfree (My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: kawhill

Franz Liszt in some passages of the Hungarian Rhapsodies emulates the sound of the hammer dulcimer which was known as the cimbalom at that time.


17 posted on 04/28/2024 1:00:09 AM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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Thank you for sharing that. They are very cool instruments. I grew up square dancing, good to see folks still doing it! :)


18 posted on 04/28/2024 3:30:29 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: punchamullah

Very cool

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19 posted on 04/28/2024 4:19:58 AM PDT by aces (and )
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To: KamperKen

The Cimbalom is a hammer dulcimer on steroids. I did a number of shows with a Hungarian Gypsy while he was touring the US and sitting in with some philharmonics here in the eastern US. Guy traveled the world his whole life playing that thing. Amazing instrument in the right hands.


20 posted on 04/28/2024 5:52:31 AM PDT by SirFishalot
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