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Organologically, the Appalachian dulcimer is a plucked box-zither; it is considered to be a folk instrument. Appalachian dulcimers are traditionally constructed of wood, and early instruments were typically made all of one wood, using wood commonly found in the particular area of the mountains where the builder lived.
Singer-songwriter Holly Brook plays the dulcimer on her debut album Like Blood, Like Honey. Peter Buck of R.E.M. A dulcimer is played on Nine Inch Nails' album Ghosts I–IV on song "22 Ghosts III" by Alessandro Cortini. Mark Duplass played the Ryan Miller (musician) song "Big Machine" on a dulcimer in movie Safety Not Guaranteed. [6] Patrick Wolf
The mountain dulcimer often conjures up rustic mountain life and simple traditional music from the American South in a bygone era. But that’s not the whole story. From a group of countercultural youth living in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the late 1960s to Joni Mitchell's influential Blue album in the early 1970s, the mountain dulcimer found a new voice in a "new land": California.
Stephen Seifert (born September 29, 1973) is an American folk musician and virtuoso Appalachian dulcimer player. [1] Seifert is internationally known and is a concert headlining performer. He was adjunct instructor of Mountain Dulcimer at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music from 1997 to 2001.
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John Jacob Niles, singing and playing his large Appalachian dulcimer. John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 – March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads.
Andrew Rowan Summers (December 15, 1912– March 1968) was an American folk singer and player of the Appalachian dulcimer. [1] He is credited with a large role in preserving Appalachian music from extinction. [2]
He was known for his skills as a carpenter and luthier; Proffitt's fretless banjos and dulcimers were homemade. [2] [3] In 1937, Frank Proffitt met folksong collectors Anne and Frank Warner. [1] Frank Warner was searching for a dulcimer builder and thus began a 30-year friendship and song swapping. [1]