The Mountain Dulcimer: How to Make It and Play It

"The Mountain Dulcimer: How to Make It and Play It album by Howie Mitchell on Archodia Music"

Release Date: 1966-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

  • Introduction: Demonstration of the Dulciless Finger Exercise
  • Tuning the Dulcimer: The Phenomenon of “Beating”
  • Tuning by Harmonics: The “Classical” Style of Playing (Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, Study in Counterpoint)
  • The “Bagpipe” Tuning and the Quill Technique (Macpherson’s Lament, Flop-Eared Mule)
  • The “Finger Style” of Playing (In the Good Old Colony Days)
  • Six Modal Tunings for the Traditional Dulcimer
  • The "Double-Thumbing" Technique (If He's Gone, Let Him Go, Buckdancer's Choice)
  • The “Three-Pairs-of-Strings” Dulcimer (Frankie and Johnny, Two Sisters)
  • The Double Dulcimer (The Ash Grove, Lady, Come And See, Babylon Is Fallen)
  • The Double Psaltery (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring)