My father was a friend of a Mr. Ford who made dulcimers in Georgia. They met during WW2 in California and were lifelong friends. Sorry but I forgot Mr. Ford's first name.
Hand craft is alive and well in America. This sound is in my heart. Follow your heart and dreams and create what you know and love! Children of all lands are naturally drawn to these beautiful sounds. Well done!
As a guitarist, I bought a Dulcimer not knowing what to expect, but fell in love with it, the minute I found a CD on how to tune it and with a couple folk tunes. The Dulcimer is a unique instrument, easy to play and sounds great.
My son is a guitarist too, and I have wanted to get him a dulcimer since the first time I saw one over 10 years ago. They are amazing. I'm glad you got one and are enjoying it.
@@deenibeeniable have nothing to do withh france or history, I got them from nord music.... I kind of wondererd who else than PYTHAGORAS THE GREEK COULD HAVE COME UP WITH THESE CHORDS
Dulcimers come in a variety of shapes and sizes; hourglass, teardrop, trapezoid, rectangular, elliptical, violin-shaped, fish-shaped, and lute-back are just a few examples. One could even make a penis-shaped dulcimer.
I'm a bluegrass banjo picker from Australia. Spent time with Mike and his dulcimers across the road in Townsend Tn at the Old Timers Spring Festival 2004. He's a really nice bloke. Got to pick with some great bands there. 🤠😁
I understand completely. I've made a few dulcimers, but now I just make gut string banjos. I'm in my seventies, but I'll probably keep making instruments as long as my arthritis doesn't stop me. I play the Dobro and I may have try and make a resonator dulcimer like the one in the video. Seeing that resonator dulcimer intrigued me.
That's really cool! I grew up with an uncle that was paralyzed in a mining accident, afterwards he was bedridden, and he made dulcimers. He was my favorite uncle and I sat by his bed many hours and many days and nights just talking about and watching his work, and singing. He could even write music. Thanks for your share, and keep going! ♥️
My father was man from Michigan that built banjos, mandolins, guitars, and dulcimers. I have one of the dulcimer jigs floating around in my shop. I'll have to come by your shop to get some hammers and other things 'cause i need all the help i can get.
I built my first dulcimer 40 years ago. My mother loved it so much, I gave it to her and she had it until the day she passed away. I miss her and the dulcimer.
"Necessity to have an instrument". A simple sentence that contains a much greater truth. Music, culture and beauty in general, are as necessary for a sociaty to survive and develop, as food is for a person.
Very interesting! Being in England , I have seen Dulcimers very occasionally but never ever seen a two person "courting" Dulcimer ,not even a photo before ! Brilliant.
I'm sure there's much more to the story than this short piece shows, but I honestly envy Mike. I hope he and Connie have a long, happy life doing what they're doing.
Takes me right back to growing up in East Tennessee and going to all the cool country arts and crafts festivals back in the 1970s. Great video and it's wonderful to see people love what they are doing.
I bought one from Cedar Creek Dulcimers in Missouri. They were so beautiful that I had to have one. The people in the shop were so friendly and knowledgeable. The place is full of hand crafted instruments & they were more than happy to tell me everything there is to know about every single one of them.
My very first dulcimer, that you made for me, was just delivered. It's the "Cousin Clem", and I absolutely love it! Thank you very much for your beautiful work of art. It has such a nice sound and I'm having so much fun learning how to play it. Thank you for all your kind and generous help with a newbie like me. I love your shop!
When I was little, my dad and I built one of these together. Once I heard the sound of it, I fell in love. The one we made is a much simpler shape than the ones here, but it still sounds beautiful.
I just received my Clemmer Dulcimer for Christmas. I must say it is hard to put it down. I am losing sleep and weight simultaneously. But, the music is starting to come together already. It plays and sounds wonderful and who doesn't enjoy the smell of walnut.
Wow, I was 8 and we lived up in Northern California redwoods....and a Christmas we went to see a harpist, dulcimer and penny whistle band play holiday songs~ we were pretty isolated out in redwoods, no tv, phone, radio. But I loved Jean Ritchie 'None but one' record we had. I got my dulcimer at 10 and a folk harp at 24. I love the variety of ways you can play these amazing instruments! I love hammer dulcimer too, but harp & dulcimer are very vast in themselves to play! Love this vid! : )
What a lovely couple. And lucky to be doing what they do in such a beautiful setting. If I visited there would be zero chance of me leaving without having bought a dulcimer :).
What a great story. Thank you so much for sharing this. It's so good to see our earliest traditions are alive and well. Im a musician and I own and play a dulcimer. It has such a unique and beautiful sound.
I bought my 2nd and then 3rd hammer dulcimers from Mike and Connie's shop. Good folks, if you're ever in the Townsend or Maryville TN area, make sure to stop in.
Mountain Music has always been one of my favs. Check out the Foggy Mountain Boys, or Flatt and Scruggs, and the Isaacs, just a few of the good'uns. God Bless this couple and all who appreciate this music.. Amen
That sounds soothes the soul. Love the dulcimer. One of my favorite artists is Gillian Welch who uses a dulcimer in a lot of her music.
6 лет назад+8
wow, I have never played an instrument, but I better start, in 75 and no time like the present, I travel to Tennessee 4 to 6,8 ? times. a year to invest into real estate, loved this video.
If you're ever in Knoxville TN on a 1st or 3rd Friday of the month, come join a jam session at The Time Warp coffee house on Central Ave. at about 8pm. Bring a stringed instrument and join in. And on Wednesday nights they have an old time fiddle jam at 7pm.
This couple is a real inspiration to me. I've always wanted to dedicate ALL of my time to building and fixing instruments. After tinkering for years, this video has inspired me to take my idea of becoming a luthier another step further! Long-live folk music!
So much fun this weekend and the Pick'n Patch. Mike and Connie taught me how to play and I took my first Dulcimer away! So glad to find this informative video. Warms the heart and the music warms the soul.
Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are alive and well and living somewhere in the Appalachians. This was a great video. Thank you for no pretentious political crapola undertones.
Political matters are of a most important issue to our way of life and if we the regular people dont stay on top of and involved with it we will lose all our truths and all our ancestors truth and the world in which we live will go to hell literally it will go to hell ,please reevaluate ypur views on what matters to your life and always stay involved for if we dont no one will !!!
I played dulcimer in elementary school. One of the best after-school experiences I ever had with a wonderful teacher Mrs. Blackwood. Our dulcimers were just made of cardboard and wood lol
I’ve played acoustic guitar since the mid 1960s. I have a dulcimer for a long time but have only played it just a few times. It is a beautiful butternut and oak instrument. Time to dust it off and reacquaint myself with it.
Ich bin total fasziniert! Erstens vom Mountain Dulcimer .... es erinnert mich an das Raffele (Scherrzither) aus Süddeutschland und zweitens von den Landschaftsbildern aus den Great Smokey Mountain! Dort sieht es aus wie bei uns im Leitzachtal in der Gemeinde Fischbachau (Oberbayern)!!! 😃
I wish you all the luck with your business. Real Americana! You people remind of a past time when America was truly a great country with real Americans! The sound of your instruments is America! God Bless!
Reminds you of a time when America was filled with "Real Americans". What's that supposed to mean? It isn't filled with "Real" Americans anymore? Damn. Wtf?
There are still dulcimers built and played also back here in Europe where these instruments come from. In ancient times they were usual in the Netherlands, in the northwestern coastland in Germany and in parts of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Also in Eastern France there was a dulcimer region. Dependent on the country the instruments were called épinette, hummel or langeleik. "Hummel" is the German word for bumble bee. I have a traditional Norwegian dulcimer at home, called langeleik.
Thus the dulcimer is not particularly American. It has similar ancestors back in Europe, which are still built and played and which started their career back in the Middle Ages. There is also a Japanese variety.
@@-jank-willson That's not true. The épinette, the hummel and the langeleik are all plucked dulcimers. In contrast to the German and Austrian Hackbrett or the Hungarian Cymbalom, which indeed are hammered dumcimers.
@@-jank-willson Here you can look upon and listen to some Norwegian poeple who have gathered to play a traditional Norwegian tune - a halling - on their langeleiks. These instruments are dulcimeras, and you can watch how they are plucked. ruclips.net/video/SUnpNTPjZcI/видео.html
What a great video. An almost random click, which I am partial to often, and which gave me a very welcome break from the political idea wars whose videos often draw me in. Well done, guys. Love the sound. Thanks from Japan.
Just amazing the variety of sounds that can be made with these instruments. I'm sure they could be electrified. I'm gonna have to Google for electric dulcimers.
My mom has a dulcimer that her grandfather made, it’s a beautiful little thing with delicate hearts carved into it. I’ve never heard it played but I wonder if I can take it somewhere to get it cleaned up and restrung and learn to play it :) wonderful video and beautiful music
The word dulcimer originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers.' Origins are from ancient and biblical times, likely Belgium. Variants of this instrument since are found in many cultures, including: Hammered dulcimer (England, Scotland, United States) Hackbrett (southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Tsymbaly (Ukraine), tsimbl (Ashkenazi Jewish), țambal (Romania) and cimbalom (Hungary) may refer to either a relatively small folk instrument or a larger classical instrument. The santouri (Greece) (called "santur" in the Ottoman Empire) is almost identical to the Jewish and Romanian folk instruments. Santur (Iran and Iraq) Santoor (northern India and Pakistan) is constructed and tuned differently from the santur of Iran and Iraq Khim (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand) Yangqin (China), Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam), yanggeum (Korea) It did not originate in Appalachia. Dulcimers were rare there and when a few hammered dulcimers made their way into the region, the people used what was available to create their brand of folk music. Thus birthed the musical styles of Appalachian hillbilly music. :D
❤ I made my first dulcimer in the late ‘70’s. It was a plywood kit but it showed me how they were made and I went on to build many many others with much nicer woods! The last one I made was in the mid 2,000’s… I make cigar box guitars now!
It’s nice to know a little bit more on the instrument I have been playing for a decade now but I live in the piedmont region in Georgia and only like a few people know about the instrument and it’s sad so I keep playing and it’s fun too
My father was a friend of a Mr. Ford who made dulcimers in Georgia. They met during WW2 in California and were lifelong friends. Sorry but I forgot Mr. Ford's first name.
I find it inspirational that this man found his true calling in life.
@Hiccum Blurpaedius he is a salesman selling a quality product that he loves and truly believes in. The easiest sales job in the world.
Uuopppii to y JJ FB t WV g by bbfeq,ezh bAwbz
and he has his missus to thank
Lying in bed at night when she asked him, “if you had a blank check…..?
This is called Culture. God bless America and the Americans.
So dang cool. Thank God for music
Hand craft is alive and well in America. This sound is in my heart. Follow your heart and dreams and create what you know and love! Children of all lands are naturally drawn to these beautiful sounds. Well done!
As a guitarist, I bought a Dulcimer not knowing what to expect, but fell in love with it, the minute I found a CD on how to tune it and with a couple folk tunes. The Dulcimer is
a unique instrument, easy to play and sounds great.
My son is a guitarist too, and I have wanted to get him a dulcimer since the first time I saw one over 10 years ago. They are amazing. I'm glad you got one and are enjoying it.
The two-person dulcimer is called a "courting dulcimer."
Does anyone knows where the first fret design came from?
@@deenibeeniable have nothing to do withh france or history, I got them from nord music.... I kind of wondererd who else than PYTHAGORAS THE GREEK COULD HAVE COME UP WITH THESE CHORDS
@@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712 Then we have a language problem. No idea what you wanted to know. First suggestion, Relax. I come in peace.
Likely first old boy just wanted to sing to the girl of his heart and heaven rejoiced and they loved with no end.
Dulcimers come in a variety of shapes and sizes; hourglass, teardrop, trapezoid, rectangular, elliptical, violin-shaped, fish-shaped, and lute-back are just a few examples. One could even make a penis-shaped dulcimer.
I'm a bluegrass banjo picker from Australia. Spent time with Mike and his dulcimers across the road in Townsend Tn at the Old Timers Spring Festival 2004. He's a really nice bloke. Got to pick with some great bands there. 🤠😁
I understand completely. I've made a few dulcimers, but now I just make gut string banjos. I'm in my seventies, but I'll probably keep making instruments as long as my arthritis doesn't stop me. I play the Dobro and I may have try and make a resonator dulcimer like the one in the video. Seeing that resonator dulcimer intrigued me.
Sir, keep doing what you're doing until the end!
John A few years ago I heard a banjo like the ones you make. I really liked the sound.
I would love to purchase a banjo from you!!
That's really cool!
I grew up with an uncle that was paralyzed in a mining accident, afterwards he was bedridden, and he made dulcimers. He was my favorite uncle and I sat by his bed many hours and many days and nights just talking about and watching his work, and singing. He could even write music.
Thanks for your share, and keep going! ♥️
I've made a few as well, and I missed my chance to buy into the business about 40 years ago.
The kiss at the end was adorable, it makes me really happy to see a love like that.
i loved it so much i decided to scroll until i found the first other person who loved it as much! Cheers and luvv from colorado
Thank you for keeping traditional American music alive
My father was man from Michigan that built banjos, mandolins, guitars, and dulcimers.
I have one of the dulcimer jigs floating around in my shop.
I'll have to come by your shop to get some hammers and other things 'cause i need all the help i can get.
I built my first dulcimer 40 years ago. My mother loved it so much, I gave it to her and she had it until the day she passed away. I miss her and the dulcimer.
What happened to it when she passed?? Sad you weren't able to keep it still after.
@@adabofeverything7120 Unfortunately, it got lost when she moved into the nursing home. I never saw it again.
This is so great. I am learning how to play one now. I bought it from this lady around here in MO a couple years ago. Some guy makes them hand made.
I'm glad there are people out there making traditional American instruments like this, and making them so beautifully.
Oh man, that banjo dulcimer is brilliant ... loooove the sound. Way to go Mike!!!
"Necessity to have an instrument". A simple sentence that contains a much greater truth. Music, culture and beauty in general, are as necessary for a sociaty to survive and develop, as food is for a person.
I am really digging that resonator dulcimer. Wow what a sound!
Very interesting! Being in England , I have seen Dulcimers very occasionally but never ever seen a two person "courting" Dulcimer ,not even a photo before ! Brilliant.
I'm sure there's much more to the story than this short piece shows, but I honestly envy Mike. I hope he and Connie have a long, happy life doing what they're doing.
Takes me right back to growing up in East Tennessee and going to all the cool country arts and crafts festivals back in the 1970s. Great video and it's wonderful to see people love what they are doing.
that banjo/dulcimer hybrid sounds awesome
Ian Brockman Music I agree. It's not quite a banjo or dulcimer sound. It is a nice mixture.
@@kevinjasper6620 Dulcijo
@@ised-5239 😆
My Appalachian brother-in-law plays the dulcimer. He’s wonderful at it. I love listening to him sing and play.
How refreshing to see people creating music. Thank you for the wonderful memories you brought back to the surface.
I bought one from Cedar Creek Dulcimers in Missouri. They were so beautiful that I had to have one. The people in the shop were so friendly and knowledgeable. The place is full of hand crafted instruments & they were more than happy to tell me everything there is to know about every single one of them.
I’ve been to Cedar Creek. Great place!
I want this guys life lol, building dulcimers in the woods sounds really nice. An inspirational story I’ll say
My very first dulcimer, that you made for me, was just delivered. It's the "Cousin Clem", and I absolutely love it! Thank you very much for your beautiful work of art. It has such a nice sound and I'm having so much fun learning how to play it. Thank you for all your kind and generous help with a newbie like me. I love your shop!
When I was little, my dad and I built one of these together. Once I heard the sound of it, I fell in love. The one we made is a much simpler shape than the ones here, but it still sounds beautiful.
This is the best advertisement I've ever seen! Now I want one!
I just received my Clemmer Dulcimer for Christmas. I must say it is hard to put it down. I am losing sleep and weight simultaneously. But, the music is starting to come together already. It plays and sounds wonderful and who doesn't enjoy the smell of walnut.
I hope these folks are still around bringing joy the people
Wonderful! Thanks for posting this.
I wish them all the best. They're clearly masters of their craft and those are beautiful instruments
Wow, I was 8 and we lived up in Northern California redwoods....and a Christmas we went to see a harpist, dulcimer and penny whistle band play holiday songs~ we were pretty isolated out in redwoods, no tv, phone, radio. But I loved Jean Ritchie 'None but one' record we had. I got my dulcimer at 10 and a folk harp at 24. I love the variety of ways you can play these amazing instruments! I love hammer dulcimer too, but harp & dulcimer are very vast in themselves to play! Love this vid! : )
I'll say it again, what a versatile & amazing instrument. God is good & may He Bless you folk.
That really hit hard. Amazing people
Wonderful news story to share with our students.
Thank you.
What a lovely couple. And lucky to be doing what they do in such a beautiful setting. If I visited there would be zero chance of me leaving without having bought a dulcimer :).
Very inspirational. To find what you love to work at and make it you're living is beautiful!
I bought one in Pigeon Forge TN around 1986
Doesn't count
A wonderful story of good people making a most beautiful sound that is music to my ears!!!
Ohhhhhhhh....I want one of Mike’s dulcimers! They are beautiful to look at and they sound exquisite!
Such a lovely couple.
Blessed
What a great story. Thank you so much for sharing this. It's so good to see our earliest traditions are alive and well. Im a musician and I own and play a dulcimer. It has such a unique and beautiful sound.
I LOVE the sound of these beautiful instruments!!!
Great stuff. Glad to see people working in there field of passion.
So great to see the tradition kept alive.
Been Several Times, Great Folks And Beautiful Instruments.
I bought my 2nd and then 3rd hammer dulcimers from Mike and Connie's shop. Good folks, if you're ever in the Townsend or Maryville TN area, make sure to stop in.
Or Mountain Home, Arkansas
Mountain Music has always been one of my favs. Check out the Foggy Mountain Boys, or Flatt and Scruggs, and the Isaacs, just a few of the good'uns. God Bless this couple and all who appreciate this music..
Amen
That sounds soothes the soul. Love the dulcimer. One of my favorite artists is Gillian Welch who uses a dulcimer in a lot of her music.
wow, I have never played an instrument, but I better start, in 75 and no time like the present, I travel to Tennessee 4 to 6,8 ? times. a year to invest into real estate, loved this video.
If you're ever in Knoxville TN on a 1st or 3rd Friday of the month, come join a jam session at The Time Warp coffee house on Central Ave. at about 8pm. Bring a stringed instrument and join in. And on Wednesday nights they have an old time fiddle jam at 7pm.
Very cool. This is America. God bless America.🇺🇸
This is Norteamerica
This couple is a real inspiration to me. I've always wanted to dedicate ALL of my time to building and fixing instruments. After tinkering for years, this video has inspired me to take my idea of becoming a luthier another step further!
Long-live folk music!
what are the other instruments in the video?
What lovely people! A fabulous sound too. They really live life the way we all should.
So much fun this weekend and the Pick'n Patch. Mike and Connie taught me how to play and I took my first Dulcimer away! So glad to find this informative video. Warms the heart and the music warms the soul.
Thank you for this beautifully done video!
Love the history, and artist / maker
Beautiful instruments, wonderful people !
Thank you for showing this. I can't wait to visit Tennessee and the Appalachians.
A lovely sound from a lovely place!
Congratulations perfect instrument, you are doing great job, love you
Those landscapes are gorgeous
Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are alive and well and living somewhere in the Appalachians. This was a great video. Thank you for no pretentious political crapola undertones.
Hey dol! Merry dol!
YES!! THIS!
Im off to the Smokies in search of a fella in a bright blue jacket and yellow boots
Political matters are of a most important issue to our way of life and if we the regular people dont stay on top of and involved with it we will lose all our truths and all our ancestors truth and the world in which we live will go to hell literally it will go to hell ,please reevaluate ypur views on what matters to your life and always stay involved for if we dont no one will !!!
@@jasonblanton7185 Yes, politics are important, but there's no point in politicizing a video about dulcimers.
Great story!! Watching this makes me want to learn!!!
Simply fantastic! Thanks a lot for making recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all involved people.
I played dulcimer in elementary school. One of the best after-school experiences I ever had with a wonderful teacher Mrs. Blackwood. Our dulcimers were just made of cardboard and wood lol
Wow, what a great sound..!!
Greatings from Germany...(sorry my english)
What a wonderful place and people. Thanks very much.xx❤️
I’ve played acoustic guitar since the mid 1960s. I have a dulcimer for a long time but have only played it just a few times. It is a beautiful butternut and oak instrument. Time to dust it off and reacquaint myself with it.
Awwww! That little kiss at the end. So sweet!
Ich bin total fasziniert! Erstens vom Mountain Dulcimer .... es erinnert mich an das Raffele (Scherrzither) aus Süddeutschland und zweitens von den Landschaftsbildern aus den Great Smokey Mountain! Dort sieht es aus wie bei uns im Leitzachtal in der Gemeinde Fischbachau (Oberbayern)!!! 😃
I wish you all the luck with your business. Real Americana! You people remind of a past time when America was truly a great country with real Americans! The sound of your instruments is America! God Bless!
Reminds you of a time when America was filled with "Real Americans". What's that supposed to mean?
It isn't filled with "Real" Americans anymore? Damn. Wtf?
Alex Henderson i
real americans? you mean europeans? the only real americans are native americans
Can't get you out of my head
+Nico S. fuck you idiot.
I bought a clemmer several years back. He does marvelous work and they sound great! They have a very nice shop in Towsend TN.
I got my dulcimer there... I saw it on the wall to the left of the fireplace! Love it.
Where ever they live, looks relaxing!
We will definitely be visiting on our next trip to Gatlingburg!!
There are still dulcimers built and played also back here in Europe where these instruments come from. In ancient times they were usual in the Netherlands, in the northwestern coastland in Germany and in parts of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Also in Eastern France there was a dulcimer region. Dependent on the country the instruments were called épinette, hummel or langeleik. "Hummel" is the German word for bumble bee. I have a traditional Norwegian dulcimer at home, called langeleik.
Thus the dulcimer is not particularly American. It has similar ancestors back in Europe, which are still built and played and which started their career back in the Middle Ages. There is also a Japanese variety.
those are the hammered dulcimers, completely different instruments to the Appalachian dulcimers...
@@-jank-willson That's not true. The épinette, the hummel and the langeleik are all plucked dulcimers. In contrast to the German and Austrian Hackbrett or the Hungarian Cymbalom, which indeed are hammered dumcimers.
@@-jank-willson Here you can look upon and listen to some Norwegian poeple who have gathered to play a traditional Norwegian tune - a halling - on their langeleiks. These instruments are dulcimeras, and you can watch how they are plucked. ruclips.net/video/SUnpNTPjZcI/видео.html
@@olavtryggvason1194 but they look and sound completely different to Appalachian dulcimer
The good Lord has shined thru these folks. Dont ask them , Just stop by.
Gorgeous instruments
Anyone knows what that little metal(?) item he uses to get that great sound at 5:25 is called?
Just a regular guitar slide
Such beautiful music!🙏🇱🇷🐕❤️✌️🙂
What a wonderful sound....
What a great video.
An almost random click, which I am partial to often, and which gave me a very welcome break from the political idea wars whose videos often draw me in.
Well done, guys.
Love the sound.
Thanks from Japan.
Never seen one before. Very cool. That thing can stand on its own. Never mind accompniment.
Wonderful...doing what you love....
Just amazing the variety of sounds that can be made with these instruments. I'm sure they could be electrified. I'm gonna have to Google for electric dulcimers.
A wonderful video, enjoyed watching from Kentucky.
That lady's accent is just as sweet as the dulcimer music, pure America.
What a beautiful way to live. Love it!
Super cool instrument! Right on!
sharing an instrument by a river with the one you love now thats sexy.
My mom has a dulcimer that her grandfather made, it’s a beautiful little thing with delicate hearts carved into it. I’ve never heard it played but I wonder if I can take it somewhere to get it cleaned up and restrung and learn to play it :) wonderful video and beautiful music
Morris Illinois has a Dulcimer festival around June 10th every year
Frank D. In SE Kansas every September?
TN boy living in Hawaii. I'm restoring a dulcimer for a client this week. :)
Cliche Guevara Aloha from Central Texas!
I have had a lap dulcimer for years and I love it. Hammered dulcimers are beautiful as well. Nice vid!
The word dulcimer originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers.' Origins are from ancient and biblical times, likely Belgium. Variants of this instrument since are found in many cultures, including:
Hammered dulcimer (England, Scotland, United States)
Hackbrett (southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Tsymbaly (Ukraine), tsimbl (Ashkenazi Jewish), țambal (Romania) and cimbalom (Hungary) may refer to either a relatively small folk instrument or a larger classical instrument. The santouri (Greece) (called "santur" in the Ottoman Empire) is almost identical to the Jewish and Romanian folk instruments.
Santur (Iran and Iraq)
Santoor (northern India and Pakistan) is constructed and tuned differently from the santur of Iran and Iraq
Khim (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand)
Yangqin (China), Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam), yanggeum (Korea)
It did not originate in Appalachia. Dulcimers were rare there and when a few hammered dulcimers made their way into the region, the people used what was available to create their brand of folk music. Thus birthed the musical styles of Appalachian hillbilly music. :D
❤ I made my first dulcimer in the late ‘70’s. It was a plywood kit but it showed me how they were made and I went on to build many many others with much nicer woods! The last one I made was in the mid 2,000’s… I make cigar box guitars now!
The late Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones was such a talented dulcimer musician.
I built my 1st dulcimer 40 years ago.. and I still got it. Blessings.
It’s nice to know a little bit more on the instrument I have been playing for a decade now but I live in the piedmont region in Georgia and only like a few people know about the instrument and it’s sad so I keep playing and it’s fun too