The Mountain Dulcimer - How to Make It and Play It by Howie Mitchell

Folk-Legacy Records CD-29

Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 2005
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Education, Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Introduction: Demonstration of the "Dulciless": Finger Exercise (05:30)
02 Tuning the Dulcimer - "Beating" (05:34)
03 Tuning By Harmonics; the "Classical" Style: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes/Study In Counterpoint (06:15)
04 The "Bagpipe" Tuning; the Quill Technique: Macpherson's Lament/Flop-Eared Mule (07:56)
05 The "Finger Style" of Playing: In the Good Old Colony Days (04:01)
06 Six Modal Tunings For Traditional Dulcimer (06:12)
07 The Double Thumbing Technique: If He's Gone, Let Him Go/Buckdancer's Choice (06:09)
08 The "Three-Pairs-of-Strings" Dulcimer: Frankie and Johnny/Two Sisters (04:05)
09 The Double Dulcimer: the Ash Grove/Lady, Come and See/Babylon is Fallen (07:48)
10 The Double Psaltery: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (02:30)
[Credits]
Howie Mitchell (dulcimer)
[Notes]
An instructional recording for the basic construction and performance of the Appalachian lap dulcimer, strummed and plucked zither common in the mountainous regions of the southeastern United States. Originally released on the Folk-Legacy label in 1966, it is presented by frequent Folk-Legacy contributor Howie Mitchell. Included with this recording is a detailed booklet containing text and diagrams.