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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jun 11, 2007 23:12:04 GMT 1
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pocolargo
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Post by pocolargo on Jun 14, 2007 0:25:11 GMT 1
My favorite books are Madeline MacNeil's You Can Teach Yourself Hammered Dulcimer and You Can Teach Yourself Mountain Dulcimer, with the DVD's. She does an excellen job of getting the beginner off to a good start!
I also like First Lessons Dulcimer DAD Tuning by Joyce Ochs
..and I'm always looking for more!
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gypsy
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Post by gypsy on Jul 5, 2007 3:49:05 GMT 1
Oh man, lessee. When teaching, i use Linda Lowe Thompson's brown book, Tunes for the Hammered dulcimer. Or whatever name it is under today. The blue book is good for teaching intermediate players. For meself, my current faves are: French Creek Fait un Californie, both Barnes ECD books, and the Bluegrass Mandolin Book. Howz that for eclectic?
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 5, 2007 12:26:00 GMT 1
Thanks Pocolargo & Gypsy.
I really appreciate those recommendations.
I'm sure that will be very valuable information, to any beginners over here - Ta
N.B. I've added those to the 'First Post'. 
Gypsy, sorry but I'm not sure which Bluegrass Mandolin book you meant?
Also, was there another French Tune book you were thinking of, as well as the one I posted?
Cheers
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Post by Nikita on Jul 12, 2007 15:18:44 GMT 1
well, but I'm feeling I'm quite an old geezer in HD world... but I used - and still use for my pupils - a book by Peter Pickow called "Hammered Dulcimer", issued... in 1979 (Oak Publications). Actually, I use mostly the tunes, my hackbrett having a completely different tuning than that of the HD. But it's got nice tips, and definitely good tunes (the version of Dill Pickles particularly...)
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 12, 2007 17:08:24 GMT 1
Nice one Nikita.
Yes, I got a copy of this myself, free from Oakwood, when I bought one of their Dulcimers, a few years ago.
I've added it to the list above!
Cheers
Dick
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gypsy
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Post by gypsy on Jul 21, 2007 4:41:21 GMT 1
Thanks Pocolargo & Gypsy.
I really appreciate those recommendations.
I'm sure that will be very valuable information, to any beginners over here - Ta
N.B. I've added those to the 'First Post'.
Gypsy, sorry but I'm not sure which Bluegrass Mandolin book you meant?
Also, was there another French Tune book you were thinking of, as well as the one I posted?
Cheers
DickDick, you are amazing, to take the time for the links. I REALLY am into the French Creek book, have just about the whole thing memorized. Great examples of french folk music. Anyway, the Bluegrass Mandolin Method is a Mel Bay book. Anyone buying it, pm me. The CD tracks do NOT match the list in the book, and will drive you nuts. I have sorted them out with all the proper names and numbers. Save yerself the effort. May as well add a couple of other favourites: The Fiddlers Fakebook The Waltz Books (ALL THREE!) The Portland Collection, 1 and 2 These three are all dance music, and very fine and easy to play. Pretty much anything written for the fiddle in the right key will be dulcimer friendly. And we can play in F easier than a fiddle. |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 23, 2007 10:44:48 GMT 1
Thanks Gypsy, looks like there's loads of great tunes in those collections.
Cheers
Dick
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Post by salopian on Oct 12, 2007 16:21:27 GMT 1
Thankyou Pocolargo,
It was encouraging to know that someone else is using/has used Madeline MacNeil's book.I am finding it really good and easy to follow. It just needs lots & lots of practise.
Roy(salopian)
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Post by Nikita on Mar 20, 2008 8:33:19 GMT 1
Just - at last >!  got the Paul Gifford Book : really interesting, and not only for HD Players. The Kettelwell Thesis was already very good, and Gifford goes a bit further. I recommend it, both for personnal interest and for its sceintific and very well documented approach  I received too a book that I'll have to master slowly, since my knowledge of german is limited : "Das Hackbrett in Wallis", from Amadé Salzmann : all on the Oberwalliser Hackbrett (it's the one with a device to quickly raise the course a semitone, it's been psoken about somewhere else in this forum). I'll tell you more about it  I do love getting ideas on the origins and construction of our instrument ;D |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Mar 20, 2008 13:57:42 GMT 1
Congrats on your new books, they sound very interesting indeed. I'd say they arrived just in time for you, for Easter, cause if the weather over there with you is anything like ours right now, you'll surely be spending Easter by your fireside.  Cheers Dick |
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Post by Nikita on Mar 23, 2008 12:57:14 GMT 1
Well, Easter's a strange thing around here : 30cm snow, and 5 minutes later, grand sunshine... just the weather to read books, play a few tunes... and eat chocolate  |
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Post by dulcigal on Mar 23, 2008 16:15:33 GMT 1
We, in the Midwestern U.S., are also spending Easter by the fireside! I collect music books, and found your recommendations very interesting reading. I have quite a few of them in my collection, and applaud your choices. My personal favorites are the Linda Lowe Thompson books. I don't know if most people are aware of this, but the CD's that accompany her blue intermediate book are available through her website. I am an "ear learner," and enjoy listening to the CD's in my car and then choosing a song or two to learn at the earliest opportunity!
I finally got around to ordering the Paul Gifford book. It has arrived I am looking forward to starting it soon!
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Post by Nikita on Jan 10, 2010 16:07:15 GMT 1
just been offered a children's book : "The Dulcimer boy", by Tor Seidler,with drawings (inaccurate dulcimer-wise....) by David Hockney. The story is quite Dickens-like : boy adopted by an ill-treating family, but who can play hammered dulcimer so beuatifully that the birds sing with him (that's one for you, Dick ;-))
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jack
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Post by jack on Jan 12, 2010 0:30:24 GMT 1
I've seen that book advertised. One I liked was Sadko, from Old Peter's Russian Tales. I used to read these stories to my children at bedtime but I usually fell asleep before they did.
It reminded me of my younger days, wandering along the banks of the Clyde, playing my dulcimer, enchanting the fishes and dodging the Buckfast bottles ;D
Nikita, did you ever find out anymore about "the device to quickly raise the course a semitone" ?
Jack
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This list is for Dulcimer Books, other than tune books. 
got the Paul Gifford Book : really interesting, and not only for HD Players. The Kettelwell Thesis was already very good, and Gifford goes a bit further. I recommend it, both for personnal interest and for its sceintific and very well documented approach 
