Elk River Blues-Mountain Dulcimer

This is a fiddle tune written by a West Virginia fiddler named Ernie Carpenter. This is dedicated to my friends who live in California, Ginny and Duncan.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Elk
• River
• Blues
• Mountain
• Dulcimer
• fiddle
• tune
• Ernie
• Carpenter
• Rachel
• Eddy

[gretchenman]

Thank you guys for watching :)

[MXrider5383]

for some reason this makes me despressed and happy my grandfathers name was jacob carpenter i know ernie is related to me i dont know if it was my grandfathers father or what though. very well played thank you very much!

[gretchenman]

Thanks for sharing! I'm glad that it moved you! It makes me happy that my music can touch people! Thanks :)

Hunter

[rpatt100]

Hunter, great job On Elk River Blues. One of my favorites . It is great to see young people involved with the dulcimer . 5 stars!

Roger

[gretchenman]

Oh, thanks! It is an amazing tune!

[brotherbleu]

Nice playing of course...by the way, is that a wormy chestnut top or butternut?

[gretchenman]

I should post a response to it..... is wormy chestnut. It was from a special building in Gatlinburg, over 200 years old! Can you see why she sings so sweetly?!

[DEFkon001]

Some say that instruments have souls. If that's true, I'd say that one's in bliss. Nice playing sir, and please keep posting more if you find the time.  Thanks for sharing.

[josherz88]

very nice playing man....

[HitaroX]

where can I get one? I play guitar, and I find this very interesting n_n

[LostintheHoller]

This is great. How are you tuned?

[celticdulcimer]

i love this sound.

thanks. it's a good and plaisant job.

cristian huet

[DNicolas1916]

Great job young man. One of my favorite fiddle tunes ever. MXrider5383, the reason this makes you sad is probably because when the great Carpenter wrote it, he said he was very sad looking back on his old home on the Elk River which he missed dearly. I can play this tune for an hour straight without even thinking about stopping.

Thanks for sharing,

[BardofCornwall]

Lovely stuff. Thanks for posting these videos. I just built a dulcimer and am in need of good models.

[byan70]

LUV IT

[kakoonas]

that was so beautiful