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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jun 19, 2007 8:14:11 GMT 1
I'm just wondering what everyone else sees when they sit playing their Dulcimer, whether they are sitting on a Verandah, Porch, or safely tucked up behind glass?
I'm sure, given the wide geographical spread of members already, there will be some very different views to talk about here, & hopefully some of you might even post links to photos of your view. 
When I sit & play my H-D in my study, because we are 500 feet up a hillside, I look out my window across most of North Antrim, so my view is of green fields, hedges & some trees, with the Hills of Co Derry in the distance & the Mountains of Donegal on the horizon.
There is no large wildlife for us to worry about around here, except Foxes & Badgers at night, & the birdlife is mostly Finches & Crows.
Here is my view towards the north (Giant's Causeway) coast: North AntrimSo, what do you see from where you sit playing your Dulcimer?
Please post a photo link too, if you can, just to give us all a better idea.  |
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Post by gypsy on Jun 25, 2007 3:01:53 GMT 1
snickersnickersnicker...........gotta be a little more specific, as to what time of day! Lessee, in the wee hours of the am, i see myself in the mirror over my dulcimer......working on that performance smile, so i don't look the hag when performing. Afternoons and evenings at rehearsal, i see the band, in someones living room. Or the lot where i hold my farmers market, which borders the ocean. Unless i am at someone elses farmers market, then i can see a range of oak trees (stunted, only in my neck of the woods, they are called 'pygmy, we don't have oaks like you do LOL!)
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jun 25, 2007 7:12:40 GMT 1
Pygmy Oak trees Gypsy, eh?
But good for making small Dulcimers I suppose? ;D
Of course, all Oak Trees start out small:  Small Beginnings! |
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Post by gypsy on Jun 29, 2007 4:52:08 GMT 1
yup, that is about the size of our trees, if you pull the perspective. Lessee, oak trees in my neck of the woods stretch all the way up to..........mebbe 15 feet. If you go inland, you might find some 25 footers......if you look REALLY hard. We're better at growing redwood trees around here, than oaks.
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Post by cooper on Jul 10, 2007 15:39:19 GMT 1
Here is my view towards the north (Giant's Causeway) coast: North AntrimSo, what do you see from where you sit playing your Dulcimer?
Please post a photo link too, if you can, just to give us all a better idea. Wow, that is quite a lovely view!!!! Because our neighbor will not pick up all of the trash on the side of their house (which is were the view from my studio window over looks), I just have my up against the wall. But, because of that picture, I am rethinking were I should play. |
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Post by gypsy on Jul 27, 2007 3:58:09 GMT 1
Oh yeah, it makes BIG difference to have something pretty to look at whilst you play. Especially if you perform/busk.....the kiss of death is the person with the nose so deep in the dulcimer, that the audience feels ignored. o'course, what i see in the mirror in the am is not necessarily the prettiest thing at 6am...........
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 27, 2007 8:46:14 GMT 1
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Post by gypsy on Nov 12, 2007 5:09:13 GMT 1
Hey Gypsy, are you saying you are in the habit of going Busking at 6am? ;D silly guy! at that hour, they would pay for me to leave! |
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Post by anniemcu on Nov 29, 2007 17:40:55 GMT 1
ptarmigan, that is a beautiful view indeed!!
Alas, though I love them, I am already too stretched trying to keep up with the whistle and bass, and occasionally my banjo and guitar, so the only dulcimer view I get is the one after i turn down the burner under a boiling pot. ;D Now... whilst playing the instruments i do, I have any number of options, some nearly as beautiful as yours.
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Post by alanrichie on Apr 4, 2008 22:14:36 GMT 1
. . . aaaaaahhhhhhh . . . the sea! the greenery! and when I see gorse (furze?) in bloom I can only think of the quip that when the gorse is in bloom 'tis the season for kissin'
My view is of what was the last stretch of open range in the US which, as there has been a drought for the last . . . how many years? seems to be permanently brown!
That was before I took my dulcimers and recorders downstairs to a smaller room where the humidity and temperature are more easily controlled.
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Apr 7, 2008 7:04:47 GMT 1
Ah! ..... so this is really, what you should be able to see Alan!  ;D |
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