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Robert Force (born in Snohomish, Washington) is a performer and composer on Appalachian dulcimer. He is also a producer, and the author of In Search of the Wild Dulcimer , Wild Dulcimer Songbook , and Pacific Rim Dulcimer Songbook .
Up to the 1960s most mountain dulcimers had three strings. The most popular variant today is four strings in three courses, with doubled melody strings. A variety of dulcimer shapes. Sizes and range: Larger and smaller dulcimers are made, which extend the range of the instrument to higher and lower pitches, and to fill parts in dulcimer ensembles:
Kevin Roth (born 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a singer-songwriter, pianist, artist, and Mountain Dulcimer player. [1] He is widely known [2] as one of the leading innovators of the dulcimer around the world and has released over 60 albums.
Best selling author Marianne Williamson served as minister of Renaissance Unity Interfaith Spiritual Fellowship for five years and caused controversy within the church when in 2002 she sought to dissolve the church's formal affiliation with Association of Unity Churches. Williamson resigned as a result of the controversy.
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.
The NBA and commissioner Adam Silver were eager to make changes to the All-Star Game after last year's contest wasn't very competitive and finished with a final score of 211-186.
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 ...
The family of a 20-year-old man is speaking out after he was found dead at the bottom of a hotel elevator shaft in Turkey while reportedly on his first vacation with his girlfriend.