I heard this song recently at a session & am quite in love with it. Your performance here is easily the most tender and beautiful on youtube. Thank you.
Bing, I finally got my dulcimer yesterday around midday. By dinner I was playing this song, certainly not with the nuance you and Stephen Seifert display, but any success I had is due to your videos, which I've been watching obsessively for the last two months. Thanks so much! Your musicianship and enthusiasm for the dulcimer are inspiring. Dan
Bing, this is awesome. An eulogy... Scott Patrick, may you find that the last stop on your road is a merry one, beyond the wild clouds and stormy skies you so skillfully danced through in life, on wings cobbled together with scattered prayers and duct tape. Even as you close your eyes, I raise my glass to the bravest, toughest, savviest old brush pilot scoundrel I ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on. So, I ask you. Strangers, friends, lads and lasses, raise a glass to my old Rosin The Beau!
I just found this by accident and I'm so glad I did. I've been really depressed for quite a while now and this lifted the cloud around me enough to make me want to get my dulcimers out and play a little. Maybe it wasn't an accident after all. Thank You.
Aloha! Thanks for checking out the video - I'm going to be teaching workshops at KMW this year - I'm looking forward to it! Hope to see you there later this month!
Rosin the Beau is one of my favorites to play. I ran into a dulcimer group in Largo, FL and started learning with that group. Flew back to Ohio with the snowbirds and took up with Bill Schilling and the Dulcimore group in Salem, OH. In my studies I learned about Russell Fluharty of WVA known as the dulcimer man. Turns out he was my grandmother's cousin!! Wish I could have known him.........
Thank you very much! I'm out of Orlando, Florida - will be at Kentucky Music Week later this month, Mountain Music Festival in Manitou Springs, Colorado in August - and the Nutmeg Festival in Connecticut in September. Just got back from two weeks in Ohio - so I get around a little bit - it would be great to meet you and jam!
That is wonderful! Best part is, you don't need to read music to play the dulcimer - it is the best as far as instant-gratification goes. That is simply wonderful that you've been married for 50 years! You are an inspiration to not only my wife and I, but to anyone in love. Thank you so much for your sweet note, it was just a perfect ending to my Thursday.
Thank you for sharing that! Glad you've gotten something out of the videos - I hit the road quite a bit; there's a schedule on the front page of my website. Be sure to introduce yourself when we meet!
That's the best news ever right there! I love that you're picking up the instrument - you'll have so much fun with it. Thanks for the kind words - and I hope your dulcimer arrives soon! Drop me a line if you've got a question. Aloha!
Hey, thanks for that info - it's amazing, the regional differences in popular tunes. I'll have to look up the lyrics for that version. Thanks for watching!
Hi there, thanks so much! You should really hear Stephen Seifert play this tune - I learned it from him. I don't have tab for this - I learned by listening to his recording and then playing each part over and over again. I think this is on his album "Mountain Dulcimer."
The Appalachian mountain dulcimer, as it stands, is a truly American instrument, created on these shores. But it has roots in Europe; the Swedish Hummel and German Scheitholt among its forbears. Some say there is also some African and Native American influence - but as it's only about 220 years old, the dulcimer is still a "newbie" on the instrumental circuit.
Thank you and welcome to the family! I get a sense that maybe you're a performer of other instruments? I've never heard that tune, but I'm sure going to look it up now. Happy new Year!
@ivanrorick Thank you! I have not heard "The Market Town" but I do play "Booth Shot Lincoln" - a bit slower than most - and I do hear some of the resemblance.
That's awesome! Can you see inside the f-holes to read who the maker is? I'll be doing some more beginner lessons here after the KMW footage is all up. Have fun!
@CloeliaNaso9 Glad you mined something out of this video - especially the melody on bass line, which is a great alternative when arranging. Saw your own videos - looking forward to many more!
Thank you for watching, and for the critique; I sure DID forget to mention the tuning on this one! I'll definitely work with a different lighting set-up for the next videos. Thanks again!
Great work! I just got my Dulcimer in the mail today and I've spent the last hour or so watching this over and over again and I think I got it! Probably not quite right but it's really wonderful music!
Hee, Hee! I meant my dulcimer was AAD. I have since changed it to DAD and am loving it! Thanks for the info. I'm really enjoying your videos! How wonderfully inspiring you are!
That's what I love to hear more than anything - may I suggest a David Lynch student-model? Inexpensive, great sound - if you decide to trade up, I think he does that too. Have fun!
@791southcourt I've been working on a method book for chromatic (you can find some preliminary sketches on my blog at nowheremusic.blogspot.com) but don't know when I'll release it. Maybe before next spring? thanks for watching!
I've seen it as "bow" as well - and the tune's got so many different sets of lyrics about so many different topics, I think anything goes with it! Thanks for watching (and puzzling through it)
@gpstogo1 I'd go with butternut top and black walnut for sides and back. Truly rich and mellow with enough crispness to balance it out. This is the version that's in the book, albeit without some of the ornamentation.
Well thank you, I appreciate your post! Looks like I'm coming back through East Texas/Southern Oklahoma this fall; October. I hope to have some more details surrounding Winter Creek Reunion in Bennington, OK this year. It'd be great to meet you!
I've heard that they are sort of hard to come by - you may have to go with mail order. A dulcimer would be a nice addition to your current instrumentation - it's got instant authenticity - good luck in procuring one!
Bing, thanks so much for what you do. I have learned so much from what you do. I especially like this video as well as Juke Joint Hen and Nowhere Man. Hope to jam at a festival one day. Gary
Go with four strings - if you find you prefer playing with three, you can always remove one or place it under a "drop pin" off to the side. Having four strings is great for equidistant picking! Good luck!
Thank you, so much! Congratulations on picking up the world's coolest instrument. : ) I haven't played in NJ yet - but will be in Connecticut, not too far away, this September for Nutmeg Festival. Hope to meet up with you someday!
I heard this song recently at a session & am quite in love with it. Your performance here is easily the most tender and beautiful on youtube. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
I'm tuned DAD with this song. Welcome to the mountain dulcimer family!
I've seen you jam with Stephen on this tune and Mississippi Sawyer. I was hooked on these tunes! I'm learning both.
Fun tunes!
i havent touched a dulcimer since hi school. learned about them on a trip to petit jean arkansas one year
thanks for posting this!
Bing,
I finally got my dulcimer yesterday around midday. By dinner I was playing this song, certainly not with the nuance you and Stephen Seifert display, but any success I had is due to your videos, which I've been watching obsessively for the last two months.
Thanks so much! Your musicianship and enthusiasm for the dulcimer are inspiring.
Dan
Bing, this is awesome.
An eulogy...
Scott Patrick, may you find that the last stop on your road is a merry one, beyond the wild clouds and stormy skies you so skillfully danced through in life, on wings cobbled together with scattered prayers and duct tape. Even as you close your eyes, I raise my glass to the bravest, toughest, savviest old brush pilot scoundrel I ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on.
So, I ask you. Strangers, friends, lads and lasses, raise a glass to my old Rosin The Beau!
Ha-ha, thanks man - I FEEL ten years younger without it!
Really nice version! The embellishment of the melody was great.
I just found this by accident and I'm so glad I did. I've been really depressed for quite a while now and this lifted the cloud around me enough to make me want to get my dulcimers out and play a little. Maybe it wasn't an accident after all. Thank You.
Sounds just like Boulevouge, the old Irish folk song that I have always loved. Beautiful. Bless you for keeping the music alive. Peace.
Aloha! Thanks for checking out the video - I'm going to be teaching workshops at KMW this year - I'm looking forward to it! Hope to see you there later this month!
Thanks, I appreciate the kind words! You should definitely pick one up - they are a rare instrument that is both simple and complex all at once.
Thanks, Shirley - I look forward to meeting you one of these days!
Awesome! Hope you can play a little every day. Thanks for watching - aloha!
Beautiful music thanks 😊
Thank you!
@rainharper62 Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
That's the best response of all - if it makes you want to pick up your fiddle! That's excellent - we need more of that happening.
Thank you! Steve's awesome - what a magic touch that guy has.
Rosin the Beau is one of my favorites to play. I ran into a dulcimer group in Largo, FL and started learning with that group. Flew back to Ohio with the snowbirds and took up with Bill Schilling and the Dulcimore group in Salem, OH. In my studies I learned about Russell Fluharty of WVA known as the dulcimer man. Turns out he was my grandmother's cousin!! Wish I could have known him.........
Thank you very much! I'm out of Orlando, Florida - will be at Kentucky Music Week later this month, Mountain Music Festival in Manitou Springs, Colorado in August - and the Nutmeg Festival in Connecticut in September. Just got back from two weeks in Ohio - so I get around a little bit - it would be great to meet you and jam!
Wow, glad you enjoy this tune! It really is a joy to play - I'm happy to hear that you're tabbing it out! Have fun!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
That is wonderful! Best part is, you don't need to read music to play the dulcimer - it is the best as far as instant-gratification goes. That is simply wonderful that you've been married for 50 years! You are an inspiration to not only my wife and I, but to anyone in love. Thank you so much for your sweet note, it was just a perfect ending to my Thursday.
Thank you for sharing that! Glad you've gotten something out of the videos - I hit the road quite a bit; there's a schedule on the front page of my website. Be sure to introduce yourself when we meet!
Thanks for watching!
@commndG You will - keep working on it a little every day! Thanks for the kind words.
Hey, glad you liked it. DAD tuning is great for so many things. Enjoy your dulcimer and welcome to the family!
As a brand-spankin' new Dulci-man, I really REALLY appreciate your videos. Thanks.
You should show that to us in the next video YOU do, Hunter!
Awesome! He's a cool guy - looking forward to playing down there!
@tishierkrisis Thanks! Welcome to the mountain dulcimer family. : )
@pang5 Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!
That's the best news ever right there! I love that you're picking up the instrument - you'll have so much fun with it. Thanks for the kind words - and I hope your dulcimer arrives soon! Drop me a line if you've got a question. Aloha!
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
You are very welcome - thanks for the verse, too!
@miskatrina1517 Happy to assist - welcome to the family! : )
Hey, thanks for that info - it's amazing, the regional differences in popular tunes. I'll have to look up the lyrics for that version. Thanks for watching!
Thanks! DAD tuning.
@mistermaggie Thank you, Gary! I'm happy to help and look forward to playing some music with you. (We'll know some of the same tunes!)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well, thank you very kindly! I hope that means that some of Steve's influence is rubbing off on me. : )
Hi there, thanks so much! You should really hear Stephen Seifert play this tune - I learned it from him. I don't have tab for this - I learned by listening to his recording and then playing each part over and over again. I think this is on his album "Mountain Dulcimer."
Thank you! Hope you pick up the dulcimer again!
The Appalachian mountain dulcimer, as it stands, is a truly American instrument, created on these shores. But it has roots in Europe; the Swedish Hummel and German Scheitholt among its forbears. Some say there is also some African and Native American influence - but as it's only about 220 years old, the dulcimer is still a "newbie" on the instrumental circuit.
wow great job i could listen to that all day it makes my heart jump for joy!
That's great, Dan! Glad to be of some help - perhaps we'll have the chance to jam at an upcoming festival.
Thanks, Alan! This is also key of D - thanks for the chords, so our guitar friends can join us in the jam!
Thank you and welcome to the family! I get a sense that maybe you're a performer of other instruments? I've never heard that tune, but I'm sure going to look it up now. Happy new Year!
@JohnT341 Thank you - and thanks for watching!
awesome! thanks for posting...I didn't even know what a mountain dulcimer was before watching this, but I certainly do now. Great work!
Hope to see you there!
@ivanrorick Thank you! I have not heard "The Market Town" but I do play "Booth Shot Lincoln" - a bit slower than most - and I do hear some of the resemblance.
That's awesome! Can you see inside the f-holes to read who the maker is? I'll be doing some more beginner lessons here after the KMW footage is all up. Have fun!
@CloeliaNaso9 Glad you mined something out of this video - especially the melody on bass line, which is a great alternative when arranging. Saw your own videos - looking forward to many more!
Thank you for watching, and for the critique; I sure DID forget to mention the tuning on this one! I'll definitely work with a different lighting set-up for the next videos. Thanks again!
Great work! I just got my Dulcimer in the mail today and I've spent the last hour or so watching this over and over again and I think I got it! Probably not quite right but it's really wonderful music!
wish I were in or near orlando so I could hear this in person and take lessons from you. beautiful!
That's a great dulcimer! And it will last long, flourish with you as you continue to play it!
Thank you! I do have video lessons in real time, if you're ever wanting to go through some tunes!
Awesome! You're going to be glad you did!
@BardofCornwall Thanks for watching!
Hee, Hee! I meant my dulcimer was AAD. I have since changed it to DAD and am loving it! Thanks for the info. I'm really enjoying your videos! How wonderfully inspiring you are!
Hope you're having fun with it!
Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you!
Heh-heh, now I've got that Chuck Norris facts list going through my head.
Thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed this.
I do have some Greensleeves action, will be posting it probably in December.
You've made me realize that I love hearing the mountain dulcimer! Thanks so much for your beautiful playing!
Very nice! Steve would be pleased with your rendition.
Thank you, Sparky!
i just got my dulcimer a week ago and i really wanna learn this song i just love the sound of it
Thank you, sir!
That's what I love to hear more than anything - may I suggest a David Lynch student-model? Inexpensive, great sound - if you decide to trade up, I think he does that too. Have fun!
That's awesome! Would love to hear more about it.
Many blessings, thank you so much!
That is an old Folkcraft dulcimer from around 1994 or so. Rosewood and spruce with a wedge fretboard.
Beautiful
Thanks for watching!
congrats and you're welcome!
This song is, apparently, a play on words - so there may be more to it than meets the eye, Rosin!
@791southcourt I've been working on a method book for chromatic (you can find some preliminary sketches on my blog at nowheremusic.blogspot.com) but don't know when I'll release it. Maybe before next spring? thanks for watching!
That makes me heart sing - thank you so much. I hope we get to hear your version!
Thanks! dd-A-D.
I've seen it as "bow" as well - and the tune's got so many different sets of lyrics about so many different topics, I think anything goes with it! Thanks for watching (and puzzling through it)
Thank you!
@gpstogo1 I'd go with butternut top and black walnut for sides and back. Truly rich and mellow with enough crispness to balance it out. This is the version that's in the book, albeit without some of the ornamentation.
Well thank you, I appreciate your post! Looks like I'm coming back through East Texas/Southern Oklahoma this fall; October. I hope to have some more details surrounding Winter Creek Reunion in Bennington, OK this year. It'd be great to meet you!
Thank you -
I've heard that they are sort of hard to come by - you may have to go with mail order. A dulcimer would be a nice addition to your current instrumentation - it's got instant authenticity - good luck in procuring one!
@awsimages Thanks man, very nice indeed!
@meganopolis0 Thanks for watching!
Thanks! I've been noticing some of the regional differences - including "Acres of Clams", which is very interesting. Thanks again!
Aloha - I'm tuned DAD on this one.
Very nice. I'm just starting to learn the dulcimer; something I've wanted to do for several years.
Bing, thanks so much for what you do. I have learned so much from what you do. I especially like this video as well as Juke Joint Hen and Nowhere Man. Hope to jam at a festival one day. Gary
Thanks man, I appreciate it!
@rainharper62 Thank you!
Man tell you what that's some damn good picking to hear on a long drive home, glad for to see the old playin alive!
Thank you! And thanks for listening!
Go with four strings - if you find you prefer playing with three, you can always remove one or place it under a "drop pin" off to the side. Having four strings is great for equidistant picking! Good luck!
Thank you, so much! Congratulations on picking up the world's coolest instrument. : ) I haven't played in NJ yet - but will be in Connecticut, not too far away, this September for Nutmeg Festival. Hope to meet up with you someday!
I do believe everything happens for a reason - I'm glad you got something positive out of this clip! The Creator rocks!
@fahzbehn Many thanks!