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...
... FWIW, I have never liked the sound from any of the contact mics I have heard, and in particular the piezoelectric ones. They all sound..... distorted.......
I bought two pizos and spent an afternoon locating them and relocatin them on the bottom of my dulcimer. I finally did get close but it took running the leads...
Amanda, The best advice I have is practice, practice. Set a time and just do it. Learn the layout of the dulcimer to becme familer with the cord layouts. I...
Thanks to Sharon, Boabywoods, Betty and Conrad for all the advice, comments and support. It gives me some options to discuss with the sound fellow for the...
If you want a chromatic instrument, be warned the Indian santoor is not intended to be chromatic. It could be made chromatic...but that would involve some...
This may not be the sound you want, but you could always use padded hammers or any other kind a hammers that don't have that percussive attack. Andrew...
First lesson: start out using alternate hands as much as possible from the outset. Resist the temptation to let your dominant hand do all the work. Otherwise,...
This reminds me of a gig I did years ago - the channels on the mixing desk were all correctly labelled, guitar, fiddle, etc, except for mine, which was...
First, cheap instruments are cheap for a reason! No doubt there are very good santurs around, but do not expect a £200 instrument to stay in tune or...
I use stick-on pickups and they work great. On my Masterworks, they are inside, stuck to the underside of the soundboard, but on my Cloud Nine they're attached...
There isn't a lot of choices as far as inexpensive dulcimers go but one recommendation is a Rick Thum Songbird. He has a number of small decent sounding...
I already use padded hammers and for the attempt at recording used my brand new ones with of course the most padding in the best shape, and even with extremely...
I play a linear chromatic hammered dulcimer called a hackbrett (chopping board) in German. It has 32 sets of four strings each giving a lovely sound and was...
... The percussive sound my simply be part of your instrument and difficult to eliminate. Try different mic placement, or possibly move the mic farther...
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