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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 3, 2007 13:42:14 GMT 1
Thought you might like to know that I managed to pick this old John Rea LP up on Ebay last night!
It cost me £16.
I just wonder though, what I'd have paid for it when it was first released!
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Post by gypsy on Jul 5, 2007 3:52:17 GMT 1
Actually, my beach dulcimer is from Ebay. From a luthier by the name of Bergman. It is a nice little dulcimer, he did a good job on it. The Laser Elegance hammers are really nice, too. Also got the Russell Cook music stand that clips to your dulcimer.......really nice, can't tip over easily (i play standing, so music stands can get pretty tippy) Little thread drift, but one of my better buys lately has been a battery operated gooseneck LED lamp, to illuminate my soundboard. Used to have a halogen gooseneck, but heavy, and never knew about finding electric. That and the tall directors chair so i can sit when playing waltzes, have been my scores this year.
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Post by HammerGrrl on Jul 5, 2007 8:24:46 GMT 1
Actually, my beach dulcimer is from Ebay. The Dusty Strings Apprentice is from eBay Australia; the spare strings, hammers, tuning wrench, stand kit, beginner's book and DVD plus a couple of dozen CDs from various artists - oh yes, and the HD frog (same pond as Ptarmigan's avatar), a wall chart and a beaut t-shirt are all eBay buys, mostly new stuff. There's a music bag coming from the UK from embroiderers who have an eBay shop - there'll only be one Dulcimer Diva music bag in Aus, that's for sure. eBay has been such a fertile field for buying all kinds of things we would not have found otherwise and usually at better prices than competing items in shops. Elaine  |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 5, 2007 12:35:46 GMT 1
Just a wee Aside:
HammerGrrl, that wee Frog actually belonged to the late Nat Magee, one of the last of the Co Antrim Dulcimer players & a relative of the great John Rea.
Sadly, we lost Nat just this past Spring.
Anyway, Nat took this photo himself & I like to use it here, and on this forum's MySpace, to remind me, and indeed us, of him.
Cheers
Dick
Carry on ............. ;D
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Post by dulcimer42 on Sept 6, 2007 3:13:55 GMT 1
I've had really good luck on Ebay. I've bought and sold lots of things. Music related, I sold a harp, and bought a double strung harp. Sold an 11/12 Masterworks and bought a Ukrainian tsymbal, at a super cheap price. (Probably because other people in the U.S. were smarter than I. They probably knew that the beautifully painted Ukrainian "hammered dulcimer" was a totally different tuning than what we are accustomed to!). But I have managed to learn a few simple Russian tunes on it. Just takes a lot of concentration to know where those notes (strings) are located!
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