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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 12, 2007 11:12:17 GMT 1
Don't you just love this young boys reaction to his first experience with a Hammered Dulcimer! ;D
If we're honest, I reckon this mirrors our own reaction when we first heard a H-D being played .... although most of us probably remembered to keep our mouths shut, as we listened! 
Hammered Dulcimer in Portsmouth
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Post by jt3d on Jul 12, 2007 22:03:27 GMT 1
That's too cute! The little lad looks like he is totally absorbed in this guys playing of the HD! Kind of how I felt that day in 1995 when I first heard the HD. Took me 9 years after that to get up enough nerve to get one.
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Post by ceadach on Jul 17, 2007 1:44:55 GMT 1
That is very sweet. and Ptar, you're right, I think I probably looked just like that when I heard the dulcimer for the first time. The band I'm with rehearses at our singer's house, as he has three small children and it's far easier for us other two members to come to his place. His children love when I play the dulcimer and his youngest looks much like the wee boy on the clip when we play. The older ones just start spontaneously bouncing and dancing! (Oddly enough the children don't seem terribly fond of the pipes....  ) Chad |
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Post by Nikita on Jul 17, 2007 11:32:59 GMT 1
I guess when I first met the hackbrett, I was a wee bit old to let my mouth so wide... I remmeber years ago I was working for a ski camp with children between 6 and 12... they loved so much the sound of the Hackbrett, we made a game out of it : just before going to bed, they all would sit or lie down on the floor, I'd play (mostly slow tunes, O'Carolan and Swiss Jodel music) : the child who moved had to go to bed : they loved it so much they all really tried not to move. On the last evening, I played an hour and a half before the first one moved... and it calmed them very well : the nights where peaceful and quiet...
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 18, 2007 15:44:19 GMT 1
Oh dear Nikita, if I tried that, they'd all be off to bed within the first five minutes! 
More practice is required I fear!
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Post by docterry on Feb 22, 2008 7:17:13 GMT 1
Ptar,
What was YOUR expression like when you first saw/heard a Hammered dulcimer ??
I first heard the Hammered Dulcimer in Henry Mancini's score for the movie HATARI! in 1962. I made my Dad go out and buy a stereo LP for $12.00 for my birthday that year.
I then got to hear and SEE a hammered dulcimer in 1973 as a volunteer at Farm and Wilderness School in Portsmouth New Hampshire, with Dudley Laufman and Bob McQuillen in the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra. But the most memorable event for me was 1979 when I first saw/heard Bill Spence and Fennig's All Star String Band at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Bill was kind enough to give me an impromptu lesson behind the "stage".
(I got to meet him again last year, as the Fennig's were at Festival in August, I also got the chance to play with him on both my Folkcraft and his David's Dulcimer Bill Spence Model {and he autographed a sketch a friend did of us playing together, which is hanging over my desk as I type!!})
By the way my expression in 1979 and 2007 were the same...open mouthed like that little boy!
Docterry
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Feb 22, 2008 19:29:42 GMT 1
Hey Doc, it might well have been something like this:  ;D Cheers Dick |
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