How to make and play the dulcimore.

Author/creator Hines, Chet
Format Book
Publication Info[Harrisburg, PA] : Stackpole Books, [1973]
Description157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAn Early American society book
Early American society book. ^A987430
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- The instrument and its people -- Dulcimores on display. Renfro valley # 1 ; Renfro valley # 2 ; Renfro valley # 3 ; Levi Jackson # 1 ; Levi Jackson # 2 ; Indiana State Museum # 1 ; The holly dulcimore -- Making a masterpiece dulcimore. Size, pattern, dies and jig ; Forming the sides ; The tuning head ; Completing the sides ; The soundboard ; The sound bar ; The back of the sound box ; Stringing the instrument ; Finishing the dulcimore -- Making mountain music. Tuning and playing from lyrics ; First songs ; Review of music notation ; Ear, note, tab and fingerboard ; On modes and minors and flatted 7ths ; The Mixolydian mode ; The Aeolian mode ; Accompanying with a dulcimore ; Some additional songs for practice -- Appendix [Pattern guide sheet master assembly jig pattern] -- Afterword.
LCCN 73007509
ISBN0811708489
Stock number$9.95

Availability

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML1015.A6 H5 1973 ✔ Available Place Hold