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Post by Dick Glasgow on Apr 27, 2008 0:32:15 GMT 1
Hello tallship & 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.
Then, why not hop over to our Where are you? poll and click on your own area!
Cheers
'Ptarmigan'
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tallship
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Post by tallship on Apr 27, 2008 9:41:47 GMT 1
Hello all, I'll fill in the details in the relevant threads but here's a brief description of me ... I've played one instrument or another since I was a child (I'm 55 now), starting off playing various brass instruments in the school band. In my teens I gave up piano after two years of lessons (the piano we had at home was a complete crock and stopped me from progressing) and took up the guitar which remains my main instrument to this day. I mostly play traditional and contemporary folk songs, fingerstyle on a steel strung acoustic. I also play a 48 key treble English concertina and recently acquired a D/G melodeon or diatonic button accordion, which I'm making slow progress with. About twenty five years ago I came across a set of plans to build an Appalachian dulcimer and made one for friend; in all I ended up making and selling another dozen or so but the one I kept for myself was badly damaged while out on loan. I've had all the parts cut to make another one out in the garage for the last year or so,but haven't got around to it.  Around this time I enrolled on a musical instrument making course at a local college with the intention of learning to repair and build guitars. After refretting and modifying my oldest acoustic guitar I fancied having a go at making something, a friend of mine fancied a hammered dulcimer so that's what I made, two of them in fact, one of which I still have. It turned out that the course tutor was a full time instrument maker and the hammered dulcimer was one of his specialties. I became an out-worker and over the next couple of years made literally hundreds of pairs of hammers, some to go with new dulcimers but many more were sold at various folk festivals up and down the country. When I moved house about fifteen years ago I no longer had anywhere for a work shop so my hammer production ceased along with my other instrument making activities. The tutor by the way was one Martyn Banks of Oakwood Instruments so my dulcimer is an un-badged 12/11 Dulcette but that's another story. Pete. |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Apr 27, 2008 11:53:10 GMT 1
Good to have you with us Pete. I have always thought it must be a wonderful feeling, to be able to make your own musical instrument & then actually be able to play music on it. Congratulations Sir! Only instrument I ever managed to put together was a Paper & Comb! ;D Sorry to hear you no longer have a workshop ...... after all, everyman really does need a shed!  Never mind, as soon as you buy that winning Lottery ticket, you can build your own instrument making factory! Cheers Dick |
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