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Happy Land

(Southern Harmony #89b)

Sacred Harp hymn from the mid-nineteenth century, played on a Galax dulcimer.

The images are a season cycle of...

"Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie", also known as "The Dying Cowboy", starts out as "The Ocean Burial", an 1839 poem by Edward Hubbell Chapin, in wh...

Hymn played on Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer, tuned DAD, melody-drone style

My first music video on my new, homemade mountain (Appalachian) dulcimer. This traditional Scottish tune, "The Four Marys," is sung from the perspe...

Bill Berg playing his hourglass mountain dulcimer.

Two dulcimer tracks with dulcimers tuned DAA are used for The Arkansas Traveler. It was raining today so making this video gave me something fun t...

My first tune written on Appalachian dulcimer, Titled "Where The Wild Chicory Grow" ..its a bit simple...but its a start

Dulcimerized version of the Delmore Brothers song Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar.

Dulcimer is played in C Mixolydian Mode.

A song I made up "Mournful Dove" played in D Mixolydian Mode.

Just finished the dulcimer, the top, back, and sides are curly elm, the headstock ...

I accidentally tuned the dulcimer DAE and found my instrument in the Lydian mode and this song was a result. The song is sung cantor style, where ...

An old mountain tune in the Dorian Mode. I play it first on the Mt. Dulcimer with Steve Heiser joining me on mandolin, then I play through it on th...

gerry oconnor playing his own tune time to time on tenor banjo..and a good lively reel the moving cloud

I have had this melody in my head for some time. I finally decided to make a recording. The dulcimer is my dogwood mountain dulcimer that I built...

Sound sample of a Sweet Woods Student mounatin dulcimer made by David Lynch. Recorded at home on a Zoom H2 with no eq or effects added.

Sally in the Garden played on a cherry McSpadden in noter/drone style. D,A,c tuning This is just about the only truly aeolian mode tune I have fou...

This is an old Hymnal played by David Durrence, in his usual style of playing. The setting is his back yard in Waycross, Georgia. David is playin...

David Summerford uses the mountain dulcimer in the musical presentation of the story of Eleanor Rigby: the church cleaning lady who had none to mou...

This is one of my favorite old-time songs. Legend has it that Davy Crockett, during lulls in battle at the siege of the Alamo, tried to keep the Te...

The dulcimer is tuned DAA and is played in the traditional style with a noter, which in this case is a walnut scrap of wood rounded so as to slide ...

Jean Ritchie, one of the luminaries of American Folk music.

CSU, Fresno Folk Artist in Residence 1980, courtesy of Jean Ritchie, The Bluestein Family and the UNC, Chapel Hill Folk Archives.

Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest

old time fiddle tune seneca square dance

Mark Gilston plays a popular old time fiddle tune on mountain dulcimer. Seneca Square Dance probably originated in Missouri.

http://markgilston.com/

Flatpicking with Black Mountain Rag - Learn to play the mountain dulcimer with book, CD, and DVD. Each lesson covers very beginner to very advanced...

I demonstrate my Jerry Rockwell traditional mountain dulcimer for the Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club on Sunday, January 25, 2009. Tunes include Going...

I love this traditional style poplar Warren May dulcimer from Berea, KY. I'm playing DOWN IN THE VALLEY in DAA with chording and no pick.

Here is my arrangement of the renaissance tune Packington's Pound played in the key of D minor on my chromatic Sweet Woods mountain dulcimer made b...

learned this tune from Jenni Wallace

fingerstyle improvisation on the latest Walkabout Bass Dulcimer

This is my playing a variation of Mark Tindle's version of Blessed Assurance on my Mountain Dulcimer in Dayton, TN

Shady Grove on the Mountain Dulcimer, I did add a small section in the middle, but the rest is pretty much the way its always been.

I got a complaint on the last shady grove, saying that they liked it, but they wished it was more traditional. I promised the person I would make o...

Up in the morning and still in my flannel night shirt... just had the urge to play the mountain dulcimer before breakfast.

My dulcimer is in a min...

I played Shady Grove and Scarborough Fair on my mountain dulcimer in my flannel night shirt before breakfast (posted here on you tube).

Then I thou...

As you get better at reading hands, there's a world of really cool stuff you can learn from me and others. Don't doubt yourself. Trust me and give ...

an instrumental version, 'cause I can't sing!

Thanks to user plowmscat for his instructional vids. I didn't use his whole arrangement, but it was...

My goal was to put one Christmas carol on-line....so here it is. Better late than never?!

Stephen Seifert playing Cripple Creek (PUBLIC DOMAIN) in the clawhammer style on a Mike Clemmer Ban-Jammer / Dulcimer tuned four-equidistant DGDD. ...

Here is my version of the House of the Rising Sun. I'm playing it in the key of Dm on a chromatic mountain dulcimer tuned DAd.

http://www.filipjers.com/

Filip Jers plays the Suzuki Promaster MR 350 Diatonic Harmonica, made by SUZUKI Harmonicas from Japan.

http://www.harmon...

This is one of my favourite songs ever.

A song about love that never dies, sung in Phantom of the Opera by the characters Christine and Raoul.

I'm...

This is truly an inspirational song. It's been a favourite since I was in year 2, where I first heard it live in a concert in New Zealand.

We are ...