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Noted musicians who play the hammered dulcimer include the following: A. Matthew Abelson ...
Jeff Buckley played a dulcimer in his song Dream Brother featured on his record Grace, released in 1994. Joe Perry recorded with a dulcimer on Aerosmith's Get a Grip album (1993). The group Little Big Town used the dulcimer on their second album, The Road to Here. Rob McMaken of Dromedary plays the dulcimer in gypsy styles.
The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more traditional styles may sit cross-legged on the floor, or in a more modern style may stand or sit at a ...
John McCutcheon (born August 14, 1952) is an American folk music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 41 albums since the 1970s. [1] He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and jaw harp.
Kate Price is a hammered dulcimer player and vocalist born in Salt Lake City, Utah.She has made recordings on several labels, including Priceless Productions, Access Music, Higher Octave / Om Town, Narada Productions, and LunaVerse Music.
His Dulcimer Heritage album comes with a book featuring all of the tunes on the album transcribed by Nicholas Hawes in standard notation. In addition, a collection of his tunes was published in 1987 as Tunes for the Hammered Dulcimer, As Played By Paul Van Arsdale with transcriptions by Jean Lewis. The book contains 36 tunes, including some of ...
Robin Petrie is an American santur and hammered dulcimer player. Petrie has been performing popular and seldom-heard hammered dulcimer music since 1980. She is heard regularly on National Public Radio. Though focusing initially on British Isles and French music, her current work includes music from many cultures around the globe.
Russell Cook is a hammered dulcimer builder and player from Oklahoma, United States. [1] Russell won first place in the 1981 Walnut Valley National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield, Kansas. Cook built his first dulcimer in 1979, and has gone on to build hammered dulcimers. He originally operated under the name Wood 'N Strings.