Links

The Internet abounds with useful information about folk music in general as well as information specifically about the Appalachian mountain dulcimer.

Here are links to websites where you can learn more about the music that our Club plays:

• The Yet Another Digital Tradition Page website is a great source of tablature of traditional music playable on the mountain dulcimer.
• The Folk Music Index lists recorded sources of folk music playable on the mountain dulcimer.
• The Folk Music Site Search facilitates searches of folk music in the public domain.
• The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.
• Old Time Fiddle Tunes is a collection of fiddle tunes from old recordings and workshops, transcribed by John Lamancusa.
• Taylor’s Traditional Tunebook includes over 500 traditional tunes playable on the mountain dulcimer.

Here are links to dulcimer-related websites:

• The Dulcimer Players News is a great quarterly magazine about both the mountain dulcimer and the hammered dulcimer.  Subscription includes a CD of music with each quarterly issue.
• The Everything Dulcimer website is a source of just about everything you could think of wanting to find out about the mountain dulcimer and the hammered dulcimer. 
• The Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer website is another source of just about anything you might want to know about the mountain dulcimer.
• The Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer in Washington State website is a great source of information about the mountain dulcimer in Washington State.

Here are links to several websites, listed in alphabetical order, of places on the Internet where you can order an instrument:

• Black Mountain Instruments in Calistoga, California.
• Blue Lion Instruments in Santa Margarita, California.
• Folkcraft Instruments in Woodburn, Indiana.
• Jeremy Seeger Dulcimers in Rochester, Vermont.
• McSpadden Dulcimers in Mountain View, Arkansas.   

There are also many sites featuring mountain dulcimer players, mountain dulcimer instructors and/or mountain dulcimer builders.  Here are a few:

• Eagle Creek Music is the website of Tull Glazener, a player and instructor, who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.  This site is also a source of a monthly E-mail posting of tablature. 
• Denny's Dulcimer Den is the website of Denny DanHartog, a player, instructor and builder, who lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  This site is also a source of tablature. 
• Hand Made Music is the website of Robert Force, a player and instructor, who lives in Port Townsend, WA.
• New Traditions Dulcimers is the website of Dan Daniels, a player, instructor and builder, who lives in Yreka, CA.
• Ron Ewing Dulcimers is the website of Ron Ewing, a player and builder, who lives in Columbus, Ohio.  He also builds capos for the mountain dulcimer.
• Terry Lewis Dulcimers is the website of Terry Lewis, a player who lives in Grayson, Georgia.  His site is the source of the tablature of many tunes played by Club members
• Jerry Rockwell's Mountain Dulcimer Page is the website of Jerry Rockwell, a player who lives in Guysville, Ohio.  His site is an excellent source of mountain dulcimer tablature.

There are a couple of instrument accessory mail order sources that you may want to investigate:

• Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan. 
• Musician's Friend in Medford, Oregon.