drs55

[Dick Glasgow]

WELCOME

Hello drs55 & welcome to the Dulcimer Player's Forum.

We are all delighted that you are now a member and we look forward to your contributions to the discussions here.

Please tell us a little bit about yourself, your music & your Dulcimers.

Cheers
'Ptarmigan'

[Dick Glasgow]

drs55 posted this on 'Where are you' on June 10th

Hello,

I live in Jerusalem. I've been playing mountain dulcimer for about 30 years and hammered dulcimer for over 25 years. There are a few other mountain dulcimer players in Israel, but I seem to be the only HD player.

[Dick Glasgow]

Hello again drs55,

So you are the only H-D player in all of Israel!!!

Wow. ......... & I thought 'I' was living in Dulcimer isolation!

Let's hope this forum brings you in touch with lots of friendly Dulcimer players over here & then you will never need to feel lonely, ever again! ;D

Cheers
'Ptarmigan

[drs55]

Hi Ptarmigan,

Thanks for the encouragement. There is someone else I know of here who used to play the HD, but he sold it to someone who never played it and subsequently left the country. Also, there were rumors of a third person who played HD. I tried to track her down and found out she even lived in my neighborhood. Imagine my excitement! Then I found it was actually me they were talking about. Go figure.

[Dick Glasgow]

LOL ;D.

But of course I shouldn't laugh 55, cause I'm sure that probably the only way at present, you can possibly create a Hammered Dulcimer Session ..... is to surround yourself with mirrors!

I hope you find another H-D player, but to be honest I much prefer playing my H-D with other instruments.
For example, I love hearing how another instrument blends in with my Dulcimer's sound & seeing how I have to adapt my playing style to accomodate the other instruments sound characteristics.

Good Luck
Dick

[drs55]

Hi Dick,

I can't quite imagine an HD session, but I am a member of a folk band here - The Unstrung Heroes - about to disband while two members go off into the wide world for 6 months. I'm hoping to get the fiddle player out for a few practices during that time.

By the way - a great thing you're doing with this site. I'm going to pass it on to the local mountain dulcimer club, so you may meet some of them on these pages one of these days

Deborah

[Dick Glasgow]

Thanks for the kind words of encouragement Deborah, but make no mistake about it, this little cyber corner will simply not work without the active involvement of interesting and enthusiastic members like yourself.
So I'm very lucky indeed, that folks like you have decided to support this little experiment.

I reckon you were speaking about these musicians? The Israel Dulcimer Society!

Anyway, I look forward to meeting them 'all', here on the forum.

It'll be interesting to hear their slant on the music scene in Israel.

Cheers
Dick

[drs55]

Yep - that's them. I notice that the bit about me was something I wrote a few years ago. I spend almost 6 years in sort-of-upstate-NY in a town called New Paltz and returned to Jerusalem about 7 months ago. I guess those pages don't get updated too often.

I can't tell you much about the folk scene here these days as I haven't been back long enough to say. However, there are clubs run by dedicated music lovers, and there is an annual Anglo folk festival called Jacob's Ladder that takes place in the Galilee. One year they brought over Oige (I think Cara Dillon got her start with them) - they were great. I think Tommy Sands was here while I was away. Tom Paxton played at that festival one year, too. And there are various groups and individual musicians who keep the whole shebang going all year at the clubs, various performances, and just sitting around the kitchen table.

People came here from all over the world and brought their music with them, so there's wonderful variety and some top notch musicians to go with it. I, myself, am a passable performer who much prefers to play with a group - the more the merrier. I count myself as lucky to have stumbled into the folk scene here - it has made my life much richer.

Deborah