Stan Halpin wrote: > on 11/30/03 4:55 PM, Bob Walkden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sunday, November 30, 2003, 9:46:17 PM, you wrote: > > > >>> I am not a musician by any stretch of imagination, but I do play the > >>> Appalachian Dulcimer. One or both of my instruments will accompany me to GFM > >>> where I will pay for my travel by accepting bribes to not play... > > > >> You're coming to GFM with a dulcimer, Stan? COOL. > >
Stan, in the 50's I had a folk music show at Northwestern U for a few months and interviewed a dulcimer maker named Howard MItchell (?) who made something called a "twic-amer" or a double dulcimer. I was supposed to be getting Oscar Brand on that show, too - but he didn't make it... The reel to reel tapes I had of that show got lost somewhere in my move east... Anyway, I used to play around with acoustic guitar and a recorder - dabble a tiny bit in the blues harp and did some very very rudimentary tinkling of the ivories years ago when I worked somewhere that had a music room because my boss was a super pianist and there was a resident drummer as well. I found improvising on a blues harp was soothing - but I can't read music at all -- I'd be embarrassed in front of real musicians. I did do some pr shots for a couple of odd little groups in my neck of the woods - Olduvai Gorge and Automatic Slim (the former defunct, the latter I think is still around.) annsan
