#dulcimer

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[scavengedluxury]

Portrait of a dulcimer player, 1934. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[foggycatgarden]

Brian Jones, Milan 1967

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

lowkey want to post a rendition of Northwest Passage on my dulcimer but the mortifying ordeal of being known, yknow?

[vintage-musicians]

Stuart S. Sprague: Four unidentified men playing instruments together - fiddle, harmonica, guitar, and the Appalachian dulcimer- in Boyd County, Kentucky. Circa 1945

[longreads]

Three Strings: Past, Present, and Future

Finding beauty, human connection, and one’s heritage in the resonant sounds of the dulcimer.

In today’s new Longreads essay, Ayla Samli writes about connecting to her heritage through music, the journey of a stringed instrument, and the sweet resonant sounds of the Appalachian (or mountain) dulcimer. 

He showed me how to strum and set me free to play. Three strings—past, present, and future—unified in one connective strum. I inhaled deeply to keep from crying. Yes, this is beautiful.

Read “Three Strings: Past, Present, and Future” at Longreads.

[persephinae]

[juliesandothings]

American folk singer and songwriter Jean Ritchie "the Mother of Folk" posing with several Appalachian dulcimer instruments