Alternatively, the dulcimer may also be placed on a wooden table, using the table as an extended resonator to boost volume. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. That was pretty revolutionary for me.”, Lapidus had never seen a dulcimer before. We just stood on the side of the road, waiting for her to come back out of the driveway. Many possible string arrangements exist, but the following are typical:[10]. “My friend Kevin Roth. This enabled players to fret all the strings, allowing for chording and an expanded melodic range. And then I got in the back with JR and Taki, and my wife and our dog got in the front. He became fascinated with Blue, her 1971 album and perhaps the greatest on love and loss ever made, and the use of the dulcimer, a little-known folk instrument that looks – and sounds – like a stretched-out guitar. I brought it to the festival - since I worked at Esalen, I got in before the regular folks came in - and I saw Joni walking down the path and I just put the dulcimer right in front of her. And the intro is so joyful and so delicious.
He was influenced to use the instrument after hearing recordings of Richard Fariña. There, he said, he did a lot of mushrooms, made music about the lovers he’d had and the heartbreak they gave him, and fell so deep into Joni Mitchell’s back catalogue he occupied a “pretty big Joni hole”. We could barely speak. Patricia: After the release of Blue, Joni toured with the Princess dulcimer all over the world. 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. We really love hearing from you. Double-neck dulcimers: Somewhat the same as a "courting dulcimer", but with both fretboards (or "necks") facing the same direction. It manages to ground her gossamer vocals. It's on the main street in town so you can't miss it. This instrument consists of one large dulcimer body with two separate fingerboards. You know, what I love to do is work a design up with an individual, finding something that's really meaningful for them. In between the nut and the bridge lies the fingerboard, which is fitted with (typically) 12-16 metal, diatonically-spaced frets; a zero fret may or may not be employed. So they drove us up to the pub and that was it. Because it is easy to play, many music teachers consider it to be an especially good educational instrument. I'll be teaching a transitional class, doing the true beginners and intermediates. 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. Because her first dulcimer was accidentally damaged, Joni went back to Joellen to get another dulcimer. As was probably inevitable, this trend eventually led to the availability of fully chromatic dulcimers, with twelve frets per octave, permitting playing in any key without re-tuning. In our second Joni Mitchell dulcimer story, Rick has a lively conversation with Wayne. Its body shape was a combination of an upside-down teardrop on top of a heart, with a flying bird head stock, sound holes with tangled ribbons and mythical birds. [9], Both single-player and two-player instruments have been made, as have multi-neck single player units (see Variants). In the weeks after I speak to Lapidus, I endeavour to get her through the impenetrable fortress of press and management that surrounds Styles. The body was made larger, and they installed metal friction or geared tuners, rather than traditional wooden pegs, to make tuning easier and more reliable. Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, Selige Stunde, review: a delightful tasting menu of songs, Sweet Dreams by Dylan Jones review: name-dropping with the New Romantics, From the West End to the gig economy: how Britain's top musicians are struggling to survive, Huey Lewis: ‘We turned down Coca-Cola’s $5m advert deal’, Lewis Capaldi, Sneaky Pete's, review: heartbreak and haemorrhoids in this intimate live-streamed show, Pop's biggest 'what if? I wrote most of Blue on it." Wayne: Ooh. Joellen: One day I found out there was going to be the Big Sur Folk Festival and I thought to myself, "I'll make a dulcimer and call it the Festival Model. You can find a link to Joellen's website on dulcimuse.com/podcast. For example, to play a minor mode melody the instrument might be tuned to D3-A3-C4. This is sometimes suggested by teachers as an easier tuning. We were hitching up the highway to go to Pender Harbour. And in 2010, that moment came, and I built this dulcimer called the Pelican Dulcimer. “Oh, my goodness, what a trip? This article has been viewed 10,961 times since being added on September 26, 2015.
More recently guitar aesthetics and construction ideals have been applied, with a tone wood such as spruce or cedar preferred for the top of the soundbox. As well as being the first to mass-produce the instrument, they made design changes to make the instrument easier to produce and to play. It proved a lucrative evening: “She had me play for them and eventually James Crosby bought an instrument from me and Jackson Browne brought an instrument from me.”, None, though, took to the Dulcimer like Joni. But I have to go right now. Suddenly a veil seemed to be lifted and many at that time felt that Joni's heart was connected to her audience. She became a neighbour of Neil Young and Glen Frey. And she noticed it and she came over and she said, "Oh, what is that instrument?" “I got to work. I mean it's just cranking along. Bass dulcimer: Very rare, these monsters may approach four feet long. Joni Mitchell plays the dulcimer in 1972 Credit: REX Joellen Lapidus emerged from the folk scene of Greenwich Village to make instruments for Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills and … I love your dulcimer." Lapidus’s fascination with the dulcimer had started seven years earlier, when she was still in high school. The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. You can see photos of Joni's three dulcimers on our website, dulcimuse.com/podcast. “It was like a little resort that became the centre of experimental psychology – all the humanistic psychologies, all the body work, all the stuff that was very different from traditional psychoanalysis,” Lapidus explains. “[Mitchell] was the first person who ever really encouraged me to follow my art,” she says, “so I owe her the deepest debt of gratitude, artistically.” Raditz came and bought a dulcimer, as did Windy Waldman and a host of other folk types. And this woman got up. Perhaps one of the most famous players of the Appalachian dulcimer is singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who first played the instrument on studio recordings in the late 1960s, and most famously on the album Blue (1971), as well as in live concerts.
She took off all her clothes. ': Double Fantasy and the tragedy of John Lennon's 'comeback' album, What's Next, Vivaldi?
Rick: Yeah. Patricia: Joining us today are two guests with two different personal stories about Joni Mitchell's dulcimers. And, through an interpreter, we said, "Yes, he will. 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. Organologically, the Appalachian dulcimer is a plucked box-zither; it is considered to be a folk instrument. Patricia: Today, Joellen is building a limited number of dulcimers. She uses a lift and harmonics and offbeat rhythms and it's just really fabulous. There's probably over 30-40 pieces of different materials. The simple sound of the dulcimer was a perfect match for her honest and self-reflective songs, "All I Want," "Carey," "California" and "A Case of You." Appalachian dulcimers are strung with metal wire strings; wound strings may be used for the lower pitched courses. And this was right at the peak of her career that -, And then she sat down with Rick Stone and said, "Well, I'd like to have it this way and that way," and, you know, how she wanted the dulcimer to look. Wayne: So what is the website for Redwood Dulcimer Day? Ralph Lee Smith: Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions, 2 ed. And so a few of my friends and I got together with her up at Molly's Cabin, which is above Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, and we played music all afternoon. A variety of new, "noter-less" playing styles emerged now collectively referred to as "chord-melody" play. Wayne: If I'm a real beginner and don't even have a dulcimer, you guys have a loaner dulcimer for me to borrow, right? Could I look at it?" Our first guest today is Joellen Lapidus, who created the dulcimer Joni played on Blue. And, just as Mitchell had before them, other musicians came to Lapidus for a dulcimer. And JR came back and he was white as a ghost and he said, "I didn't know what to do when she asked me how much I wanted for the dulcimer so I said, 'How about $300?' And she did, with her friend, who was Graham Nash. Patricia: That's it for today.
We didn't see her again until the next day. “And I said, ‘sure, come on over’.”, Lapidus isn’t the kind to get starstruck, these days. I took an image of a pelican with its wings fully out in flight, like landing, and I did a very complicated inlay. There will be 16 classes offered. Then she says, "Well, I've got to go now. This arrangement is often found to be more conducive to chord-melody play. dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, lap dulcimer, fretted dulcimer, dulcimore, Body shapes: As previously noted, dulcimers appear in a wide variety of body types, many of which are recorded in. The general format has a long narrow soundbox, with the "neck" centered in the soundbox and running the length of the instrument.
Alternatively, the dulcimer may also be placed on a wooden table, using the table as an extended resonator to boost volume. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. That was pretty revolutionary for me.”, Lapidus had never seen a dulcimer before. We just stood on the side of the road, waiting for her to come back out of the driveway. Many possible string arrangements exist, but the following are typical:[10]. “My friend Kevin Roth. This enabled players to fret all the strings, allowing for chording and an expanded melodic range. And then I got in the back with JR and Taki, and my wife and our dog got in the front. He became fascinated with Blue, her 1971 album and perhaps the greatest on love and loss ever made, and the use of the dulcimer, a little-known folk instrument that looks – and sounds – like a stretched-out guitar. I brought it to the festival - since I worked at Esalen, I got in before the regular folks came in - and I saw Joni walking down the path and I just put the dulcimer right in front of her. And the intro is so joyful and so delicious.
He was influenced to use the instrument after hearing recordings of Richard Fariña. There, he said, he did a lot of mushrooms, made music about the lovers he’d had and the heartbreak they gave him, and fell so deep into Joni Mitchell’s back catalogue he occupied a “pretty big Joni hole”. We could barely speak. Patricia: After the release of Blue, Joni toured with the Princess dulcimer all over the world. 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. We really love hearing from you. Double-neck dulcimers: Somewhat the same as a "courting dulcimer", but with both fretboards (or "necks") facing the same direction. It manages to ground her gossamer vocals. It's on the main street in town so you can't miss it. This instrument consists of one large dulcimer body with two separate fingerboards. You know, what I love to do is work a design up with an individual, finding something that's really meaningful for them. In between the nut and the bridge lies the fingerboard, which is fitted with (typically) 12-16 metal, diatonically-spaced frets; a zero fret may or may not be employed. So they drove us up to the pub and that was it. Because it is easy to play, many music teachers consider it to be an especially good educational instrument. I'll be teaching a transitional class, doing the true beginners and intermediates. 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. Because her first dulcimer was accidentally damaged, Joni went back to Joellen to get another dulcimer. As was probably inevitable, this trend eventually led to the availability of fully chromatic dulcimers, with twelve frets per octave, permitting playing in any key without re-tuning. In our second Joni Mitchell dulcimer story, Rick has a lively conversation with Wayne. Its body shape was a combination of an upside-down teardrop on top of a heart, with a flying bird head stock, sound holes with tangled ribbons and mythical birds. [9], Both single-player and two-player instruments have been made, as have multi-neck single player units (see Variants). In the weeks after I speak to Lapidus, I endeavour to get her through the impenetrable fortress of press and management that surrounds Styles. The body was made larger, and they installed metal friction or geared tuners, rather than traditional wooden pegs, to make tuning easier and more reliable. Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, Selige Stunde, review: a delightful tasting menu of songs, Sweet Dreams by Dylan Jones review: name-dropping with the New Romantics, From the West End to the gig economy: how Britain's top musicians are struggling to survive, Huey Lewis: ‘We turned down Coca-Cola’s $5m advert deal’, Lewis Capaldi, Sneaky Pete's, review: heartbreak and haemorrhoids in this intimate live-streamed show, Pop's biggest 'what if? I wrote most of Blue on it." Wayne: Ooh. Joellen: One day I found out there was going to be the Big Sur Folk Festival and I thought to myself, "I'll make a dulcimer and call it the Festival Model. You can find a link to Joellen's website on dulcimuse.com/podcast. For example, to play a minor mode melody the instrument might be tuned to D3-A3-C4. This is sometimes suggested by teachers as an easier tuning. We were hitching up the highway to go to Pender Harbour. And in 2010, that moment came, and I built this dulcimer called the Pelican Dulcimer. “Oh, my goodness, what a trip? This article has been viewed 10,961 times since being added on September 26, 2015.
More recently guitar aesthetics and construction ideals have been applied, with a tone wood such as spruce or cedar preferred for the top of the soundbox. As well as being the first to mass-produce the instrument, they made design changes to make the instrument easier to produce and to play. It proved a lucrative evening: “She had me play for them and eventually James Crosby bought an instrument from me and Jackson Browne brought an instrument from me.”, None, though, took to the Dulcimer like Joni. But I have to go right now. Suddenly a veil seemed to be lifted and many at that time felt that Joni's heart was connected to her audience. She became a neighbour of Neil Young and Glen Frey. And she noticed it and she came over and she said, "Oh, what is that instrument?" “I got to work. I mean it's just cranking along. Bass dulcimer: Very rare, these monsters may approach four feet long. Joni Mitchell plays the dulcimer in 1972 Credit: REX Joellen Lapidus emerged from the folk scene of Greenwich Village to make instruments for Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills and … I love your dulcimer." Lapidus’s fascination with the dulcimer had started seven years earlier, when she was still in high school. The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. You can see photos of Joni's three dulcimers on our website, dulcimuse.com/podcast. “It was like a little resort that became the centre of experimental psychology – all the humanistic psychologies, all the body work, all the stuff that was very different from traditional psychoanalysis,” Lapidus explains. “[Mitchell] was the first person who ever really encouraged me to follow my art,” she says, “so I owe her the deepest debt of gratitude, artistically.” Raditz came and bought a dulcimer, as did Windy Waldman and a host of other folk types. And this woman got up. Perhaps one of the most famous players of the Appalachian dulcimer is singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who first played the instrument on studio recordings in the late 1960s, and most famously on the album Blue (1971), as well as in live concerts.
She took off all her clothes. ': Double Fantasy and the tragedy of John Lennon's 'comeback' album, What's Next, Vivaldi?
Rick: Yeah. Patricia: Joining us today are two guests with two different personal stories about Joni Mitchell's dulcimers. And, through an interpreter, we said, "Yes, he will. 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. Organologically, the Appalachian dulcimer is a plucked box-zither; it is considered to be a folk instrument. Patricia: Today, Joellen is building a limited number of dulcimers. She uses a lift and harmonics and offbeat rhythms and it's just really fabulous. There's probably over 30-40 pieces of different materials. The simple sound of the dulcimer was a perfect match for her honest and self-reflective songs, "All I Want," "Carey," "California" and "A Case of You." Appalachian dulcimers are strung with metal wire strings; wound strings may be used for the lower pitched courses. And this was right at the peak of her career that -, And then she sat down with Rick Stone and said, "Well, I'd like to have it this way and that way," and, you know, how she wanted the dulcimer to look. Wayne: So what is the website for Redwood Dulcimer Day? Ralph Lee Smith: Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions, 2 ed. And so a few of my friends and I got together with her up at Molly's Cabin, which is above Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, and we played music all afternoon. A variety of new, "noter-less" playing styles emerged now collectively referred to as "chord-melody" play. Wayne: If I'm a real beginner and don't even have a dulcimer, you guys have a loaner dulcimer for me to borrow, right? Could I look at it?" Our first guest today is Joellen Lapidus, who created the dulcimer Joni played on Blue. And, just as Mitchell had before them, other musicians came to Lapidus for a dulcimer. And JR came back and he was white as a ghost and he said, "I didn't know what to do when she asked me how much I wanted for the dulcimer so I said, 'How about $300?' And she did, with her friend, who was Graham Nash. Patricia: That's it for today.
We didn't see her again until the next day. “And I said, ‘sure, come on over’.”, Lapidus isn’t the kind to get starstruck, these days. I took an image of a pelican with its wings fully out in flight, like landing, and I did a very complicated inlay. There will be 16 classes offered. Then she says, "Well, I've got to go now. This arrangement is often found to be more conducive to chord-melody play. dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, lap dulcimer, fretted dulcimer, dulcimore, Body shapes: As previously noted, dulcimers appear in a wide variety of body types, many of which are recorded in. The general format has a long narrow soundbox, with the "neck" centered in the soundbox and running the length of the instrument.
In addition to Amburgey, by then winding down his production, influential builders of mid-1960s included Homer Ledford, Lynn McSpadden, A.W. As the modern dulcimer arose in America, and the bulk of them are still made there, American hardwoods such as walnut, oak, cherry, and apple are also still frequently employed by makers. While making our documentary film, Hearts of the Dulcimer, we asked dulcimer players where they first heard the dulcimer and what inspired them to begin playing. Orlando-based musician Bing Futch performs using a special dual-fretboard mountain dulcimer as well as a custom resonator and is one of only two mountain dulcimer players to have competed in the International Blues Challenge, advancing to the semifinals in the 2015 edition of the competition;[23] during the 2016 edition, Futch made it to the finals and was awarded "Best Guitarist" in the solo-duo category, despite performing solely on the Appalachian mountain dulcimer.[24]. Apparently not. “All the stuff that was being experimented with at Esalen. Within a few months, Mitchell was brokenhearted by Nash and left the canyon for Crete, with dulcimer in tow, where she settled in the Matalla caves with Carey Raditz, an American barman who was out there already. She looked at me and said, "Joni." The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic. So, anyway, I went out into woods, looking for inspiration, and there were these beautiful red, wild columbines. Nice to see some young people getting involved in the dulcimer world. “The first and second dulcimers were coffin-shaped,” she says. If you are interested in the mountain dulcimer, this is the podcast is for you. But in the Noughties she dusted off her tools, began to make dulcimers again and music with them. guitar) style. And you don't want it to be two distinct sounds. It was a house steeped in folk legacy: she introduced David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash in her living room, and the trio was born. Even now, few people would be able to answer a dulcimer-based question in a pub quiz. You know - congratulations and stuff. She is, somewhat understandably, curious about what he’s made with her instruments (“The article says that he plays the dulcimer on his album. Older instruments and some modern "traditional" designs use violin-style wooden friction pegs. At one end of the neck is the headstock, which contains the tuners.
Alternatively, the dulcimer may also be placed on a wooden table, using the table as an extended resonator to boost volume. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. That was pretty revolutionary for me.”, Lapidus had never seen a dulcimer before. We just stood on the side of the road, waiting for her to come back out of the driveway. Many possible string arrangements exist, but the following are typical:[10]. “My friend Kevin Roth. This enabled players to fret all the strings, allowing for chording and an expanded melodic range. And then I got in the back with JR and Taki, and my wife and our dog got in the front. He became fascinated with Blue, her 1971 album and perhaps the greatest on love and loss ever made, and the use of the dulcimer, a little-known folk instrument that looks – and sounds – like a stretched-out guitar. I brought it to the festival - since I worked at Esalen, I got in before the regular folks came in - and I saw Joni walking down the path and I just put the dulcimer right in front of her. And the intro is so joyful and so delicious.
He was influenced to use the instrument after hearing recordings of Richard Fariña. There, he said, he did a lot of mushrooms, made music about the lovers he’d had and the heartbreak they gave him, and fell so deep into Joni Mitchell’s back catalogue he occupied a “pretty big Joni hole”. We could barely speak. Patricia: After the release of Blue, Joni toured with the Princess dulcimer all over the world. 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. We really love hearing from you. Double-neck dulcimers: Somewhat the same as a "courting dulcimer", but with both fretboards (or "necks") facing the same direction. It manages to ground her gossamer vocals. It's on the main street in town so you can't miss it. This instrument consists of one large dulcimer body with two separate fingerboards. You know, what I love to do is work a design up with an individual, finding something that's really meaningful for them. In between the nut and the bridge lies the fingerboard, which is fitted with (typically) 12-16 metal, diatonically-spaced frets; a zero fret may or may not be employed. So they drove us up to the pub and that was it. Because it is easy to play, many music teachers consider it to be an especially good educational instrument. I'll be teaching a transitional class, doing the true beginners and intermediates. 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. Because her first dulcimer was accidentally damaged, Joni went back to Joellen to get another dulcimer. As was probably inevitable, this trend eventually led to the availability of fully chromatic dulcimers, with twelve frets per octave, permitting playing in any key without re-tuning. In our second Joni Mitchell dulcimer story, Rick has a lively conversation with Wayne. Its body shape was a combination of an upside-down teardrop on top of a heart, with a flying bird head stock, sound holes with tangled ribbons and mythical birds. [9], Both single-player and two-player instruments have been made, as have multi-neck single player units (see Variants). In the weeks after I speak to Lapidus, I endeavour to get her through the impenetrable fortress of press and management that surrounds Styles. The body was made larger, and they installed metal friction or geared tuners, rather than traditional wooden pegs, to make tuning easier and more reliable. Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, Selige Stunde, review: a delightful tasting menu of songs, Sweet Dreams by Dylan Jones review: name-dropping with the New Romantics, From the West End to the gig economy: how Britain's top musicians are struggling to survive, Huey Lewis: ‘We turned down Coca-Cola’s $5m advert deal’, Lewis Capaldi, Sneaky Pete's, review: heartbreak and haemorrhoids in this intimate live-streamed show, Pop's biggest 'what if? I wrote most of Blue on it." Wayne: Ooh. Joellen: One day I found out there was going to be the Big Sur Folk Festival and I thought to myself, "I'll make a dulcimer and call it the Festival Model. You can find a link to Joellen's website on dulcimuse.com/podcast. For example, to play a minor mode melody the instrument might be tuned to D3-A3-C4. This is sometimes suggested by teachers as an easier tuning. We were hitching up the highway to go to Pender Harbour. And in 2010, that moment came, and I built this dulcimer called the Pelican Dulcimer. “Oh, my goodness, what a trip? This article has been viewed 10,961 times since being added on September 26, 2015.
More recently guitar aesthetics and construction ideals have been applied, with a tone wood such as spruce or cedar preferred for the top of the soundbox. As well as being the first to mass-produce the instrument, they made design changes to make the instrument easier to produce and to play. It proved a lucrative evening: “She had me play for them and eventually James Crosby bought an instrument from me and Jackson Browne brought an instrument from me.”, None, though, took to the Dulcimer like Joni. But I have to go right now. Suddenly a veil seemed to be lifted and many at that time felt that Joni's heart was connected to her audience. She became a neighbour of Neil Young and Glen Frey. And she noticed it and she came over and she said, "Oh, what is that instrument?" “I got to work. I mean it's just cranking along. Bass dulcimer: Very rare, these monsters may approach four feet long. Joni Mitchell plays the dulcimer in 1972 Credit: REX Joellen Lapidus emerged from the folk scene of Greenwich Village to make instruments for Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills and … I love your dulcimer." Lapidus’s fascination with the dulcimer had started seven years earlier, when she was still in high school. The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. You can see photos of Joni's three dulcimers on our website, dulcimuse.com/podcast. “It was like a little resort that became the centre of experimental psychology – all the humanistic psychologies, all the body work, all the stuff that was very different from traditional psychoanalysis,” Lapidus explains. “[Mitchell] was the first person who ever really encouraged me to follow my art,” she says, “so I owe her the deepest debt of gratitude, artistically.” Raditz came and bought a dulcimer, as did Windy Waldman and a host of other folk types. And this woman got up. Perhaps one of the most famous players of the Appalachian dulcimer is singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who first played the instrument on studio recordings in the late 1960s, and most famously on the album Blue (1971), as well as in live concerts.
She took off all her clothes. ': Double Fantasy and the tragedy of John Lennon's 'comeback' album, What's Next, Vivaldi?
Rick: Yeah. Patricia: Joining us today are two guests with two different personal stories about Joni Mitchell's dulcimers. And, through an interpreter, we said, "Yes, he will. 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. Organologically, the Appalachian dulcimer is a plucked box-zither; it is considered to be a folk instrument. Patricia: Today, Joellen is building a limited number of dulcimers. She uses a lift and harmonics and offbeat rhythms and it's just really fabulous. There's probably over 30-40 pieces of different materials. The simple sound of the dulcimer was a perfect match for her honest and self-reflective songs, "All I Want," "Carey," "California" and "A Case of You." Appalachian dulcimers are strung with metal wire strings; wound strings may be used for the lower pitched courses. And this was right at the peak of her career that -, And then she sat down with Rick Stone and said, "Well, I'd like to have it this way and that way," and, you know, how she wanted the dulcimer to look. Wayne: So what is the website for Redwood Dulcimer Day? Ralph Lee Smith: Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions, 2 ed. And so a few of my friends and I got together with her up at Molly's Cabin, which is above Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, and we played music all afternoon. A variety of new, "noter-less" playing styles emerged now collectively referred to as "chord-melody" play. Wayne: If I'm a real beginner and don't even have a dulcimer, you guys have a loaner dulcimer for me to borrow, right? Could I look at it?" Our first guest today is Joellen Lapidus, who created the dulcimer Joni played on Blue. And, just as Mitchell had before them, other musicians came to Lapidus for a dulcimer. And JR came back and he was white as a ghost and he said, "I didn't know what to do when she asked me how much I wanted for the dulcimer so I said, 'How about $300?' And she did, with her friend, who was Graham Nash. Patricia: That's it for today.
We didn't see her again until the next day. “And I said, ‘sure, come on over’.”, Lapidus isn’t the kind to get starstruck, these days. I took an image of a pelican with its wings fully out in flight, like landing, and I did a very complicated inlay. There will be 16 classes offered. Then she says, "Well, I've got to go now. This arrangement is often found to be more conducive to chord-melody play. dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, lap dulcimer, fretted dulcimer, dulcimore, Body shapes: As previously noted, dulcimers appear in a wide variety of body types, many of which are recorded in. The general format has a long narrow soundbox, with the "neck" centered in the soundbox and running the length of the instrument.