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Luthier Homer Ledford coined the word dulcitar as a portmanteau of dulcimer and guitar, building his first model of the instrument around 1971. [1] One of Ledford's dulcitars was accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution , as well as displayed in a traveling exhibit on American craftsmanship.
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.
With only three or four strings and a simple diatonic fret pattern, the Appalachian dulcimer is generally regarded as one of the easiest string instruments to learn. The traditional way to play the instrument is to lay it flat on the lap and pluck or strum the strings with the right hand, while fretting with the left.
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.
There, the word dulcimer, which was familiar from the King James Version of the Bible, was used to refer to a three or four stringed fretted instrument, generally played on the lap by strumming. Variants include: The original Appalachian dulcimer; Various twentieth century derivatives, including Banjo dulcimer, with banjo-like resonating membrane
Tapped harmonics are produced by holding a note with a player's fretting hand, and tapping twelve frets down from that note with the player's tapping hand (i.e. the note on the 4th fret of the A string is tapped on the 16th fret of the A string). Rather than hammering-on and pulling-off with the right hand, harmonics are produced by hitting the ...
Jimmy Cooper (1907–1977) was a hammered dulcimer player from Scotland. Cooper was born in Coatbridge, Scotland, near Glasgow. He started to play the dulcimer around age twelve, and gained a lot of experience by playing in dance halls and busking in the early 1920s. Over the course of his life he worked at various jobs, including driving buses ...
The bowed dulcimer is a musical instrument. Designed in the style of the Appalachian dulcimer (a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings), it is either a standard instrument played with a violin bow , or a purpose-built dulcimer designed around bow playing.