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Buddy Woodward of The Dixie Bee-Liners regularly uses the dulcimer as a Nashville-based session musician. The cello-rock band Rasputina has employed the dulcimer on their albums Frustration Plantation and Oh Perilous World! and the band's lead member Melora Creager has used the dulcimer on her solo album Perplexions, released in late 2006.
She won the National Championship in 1995 at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, receiving as her prize a Masterworks hammered dulcimer built by Russell Cook. She has also played a Rick Thum instrument, and currently uses a Nick Blanton Compact model on stage. She performs and teaches nationally on hammered dulcimer, also performs ...
For a while Woolstenhulme preferred Gretsch drums, playing a set that included a 24×14 bass drum, 13×9, 18×16 toms and a 14×6.5 hammered snare. [2] He expressed a preference for Gretsch drums due to a better-quality sound. [3] He currently uses a DW drum kit with Zildjian cymbals, a brand he has used consistently through his career.
American hammered dulcimer players like Ken Kolodner, Mark Alan Wade and Rick Thum continue this tradition. [34] Family bands, such as The Martin Family Band, from Maryland, are continuing the traditions of old time music played on fiddle, banjo, lap dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, piano, guitar, bass and percussion.
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Dorothy Carter (born New York City, 1935, died June 7, 2003, in New Orleans) was an American musician. [1] [2] Carter performed contemporary, folk, traditional, medieval, and experimental music with a large collection of stringed instruments such as the hammered dulcimer, zither, psaltery, and hurdy-gurdy.
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 ...