I suspect this has been a thread here in the past. But, for any of you in the US who play at weddings, what do you usually charge? I'm starting to get wedding...
I guess it depends on some factors, how much will music your expected to play, how many are playing with you, where your located, how many tunes you've got to...
Thanks, Jim...that's pretty close to what I'm charging for my first wedding gig. I feel like I should be charging more though. Heck, I just read a statistic...
About a year ago I came across a couple of stands which I kept the photos for, but not the information on how to order them, cost etc. I planned to have them...
The wooden one I use has pegs for height adjustent using the holes in the two legs,and also the tilt of the top can be adjusted by pegs, and the built in...
Hey, come on George, who is the supplier? I live in Australia, but I would still like to know more about the stand you describe, particular pictures thereof,...
OK, I'll make my second attempt at this post short after losing my first after typing for 45 minutes. First, to the website administrator this group is...
I did a search for Hackbrett stander, staender, hackbrettständer and found these 2 interesting stands. I don’t know if the one is like yours or not. ...
I have been playing for around 25 years and have tried the single leg screwed into the back, The non adjustable stand, Then I made a stand that folded and was...
When I first got my hammered dulcimer I made a simple stand that opened like a book and was not adjustable. I liked it, but I was always afraid of it being...
I am learning my hammer dulcimer and notice that often my eyes don't move as fast as my hammers when moving across the instrument to hit the note, especially...
I don't think trying to move your eyes with your hammers is going to work well, because your eyes just won't move that fast. (Of course, I'm still early...
Don't worry. I doubt that your eyes will ever move fast enough. What happens is that, after you have played enough, your body knows where the note is. ...
GOOD ANSWER BETTY TB ... From: Betty Smits <dulcimerlady2004@...> Subject: Re: [hammered_dulcimer] My eyes are slow To: hammered_dulcimer@yahoogroups.com...
Good suggestions from both of you. I have been not been that structured and organized in my learning and just trying any tune that comes my way - too many new...
I am glad to see that this list is still active. I am a longtime musician (piano, percussion, voice), but new to playing hammered dulcimer. I have decided to...
I've played a linear chromatic hamered dulcimer, called a hackbrett in German, for several years now. I also have problems seeing and with depth perception,...
I've been researching these different instruments for some weeks now and I'm quite fascinated by it all, but unfortunately not 100%sure how these things work! ...
Our little Celtic/medieval/sea shanty band has to be amplified (shudder) for an upcoming gig. The sound fellow has never seen a hammered dulcimer before and...
Hey Bridget I don't actually own a dulcimer yet but I'm looking for one, therefore I'm not too sure about particular pickups for it, but I'm sure there's a...
The stick on sound pickup works perfectly if you put it INSIDE the sound hole. You can also place a mic UNDER the instrument or at the back, next to the...
The single microphone technique is in vogue with bluegrass bands seeking to emulate the early bands of the 1940s and 50s, with their choreography around the...
Jim Hudson strongly recommended a stick-on piezo pickup (James Jones does also). Jim likes the Pick Up the World and says that the best position is on the end...
Before last Christmas I was trying to make some tapes of Christmas songs for gifts using a cheap tape recorder and its built in mike. But I always ran into...
1) You can angle the mike in above the strings which helps get it out of the way. This puts the mike 'off-axis" but that doesn't seem to be much of a problem....
Don't buy a Santur unless you plan to play santur music. They are designed differently and strung differently and the makers have a different sort of sound in...
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