Dulcimer Players News Volume 50 Number 1

Dulcimer Players News Cover Vol. 50 No. 1 (Winter 2024).

Winter (February) 2024

Publisher
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Editor
Fiona Potts
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Sales
Bill Wake
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Print Graphic Designer
Morgan Seibel
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Dulcimer Players News Cover Vol. 50 No. 1 (Winter 2024).

Contents

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The cover of Dulcimer Players News Vol. 2 No. 3 (1976). Featuring a black and white picture captioned "Phil Mason & Madeline Mason-MacNeil".

Editor’s Letter, featuring Phil Mason

08 min read
The year was 1975.  The United Nations declared it “International Women’s Year.”  A gallon of gas was $0.44.  On Jan. 6, “Wheel of Fortune” aired its first episode on NBC. NBC aired the first episode of another hit show on Oct. 11 – “Saturday Night Live.” The Vietnam War ended on…
A page from "Musica Getutscht" by Sebastian Virdung, 1511, featuring a harp, hackbrett, and psaltery. The hackbrett and psaltery drawings were reproduced in Vol. 3 No. 2. Image from the University of Edinburgh Collections, CC BY 3.0 DEED, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

On Hammer Dulcimer History

06 min read
By Phillip Mason | It is, of course, a foolish venture to take any ancient folk instrument and place its exact origins to a specific date and personage. Stringed instruments have been around for thousands of years, and during their evolution have been both plucked and struck, in fretted and unfretted forms, from times dating back into antiquity. …
Flowers | Dulcimer Players News

Arrangement: My love is like a red, red rose

01 min read
Arranged by Gloria Fletcher for mountain dulcimer, DAD tuning.
DPN Restrung: Frailing the Dulcimer

DPN Restrung: Frailing the Dulcimer

05 min read
By Butch Ross | Hello and welcome to DPN Restrung, a new column where I revisit old articles from the early days of Dulcimer Players News…
Cover of Dulcimer Players News Vol. 3 No. 3 (1976) featuring Jean Ritchie. From the DPN Archives.

Jean Ritchie

07 min read
Compiled by Fiona Potts | A look at the “Mother of Folk”, Jean Ritchie, as she appeared in the DPN Archives, featuring Aubrey Atwater’s arrangement of “Over the River to Feed My Sheep.”

Our Contributors

The following people contributed articles, arrangements, and/or images to this issue.
An asterisk indicates a contributor of archival material only.

Paul Adams
Aubrey Atwater*
David Beede
Doug Berch
Erik Blomstedt*
John Blosser*
Buckeye Roadshow
Kimberly Burnette-Dean
Bonnie Carol*
Celeste Carter
Dorothy Carter*
Danielle de Picciotto
Patricia Delich
Ashley Ernst

Dan Evans
Harry Ferguson
Robert Force
Lance and Emily Frodsham
Vince Haley
John Hallberg
Neal Hellman
Judy House
Marian Hubler
Melanie Johnston
Lorraine Lee*
Maddie MacNeil*
Carolyn Martin

Phillip Mason*
Terry McCafferty
Jim Miller
David Mitchell
Howie Mitchell*
Karen Mueller
Roger Nicholson*
Grant Olson
Palto Flats and Putojefe Records
Don Pedi
Jerry Rockwell
Butch Ross
Kevin Roth*
Robert Stephens

Our Supporters

A special thanks to the following people and businesses who advertised in the print edition!

  • American Folk Music School
  • Karen Ashbrook
  • Atwater-Donnelly
  • Backyard Music
  • Janita Baker
  • Phyllis Woods Brown
  • Buckeye Dulcimer Festival
  • Joe Collins
  • Colorado Dulcimer Festival
  • Larry and Elaine Conger
  • Ron Cook
  • Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas
  • DulcimerCrossing.com
  • DulcimerDownloads.com
  • Dulcimoon
  • Dusty Strings
  • Erin Mae Music
  • Steve Eulberg
  • Ron Ewing
  • First National Dulcimer Orchestra
  • Folkcraft
  • Bing Futch
  • Gateway Dulcimer Society Music Festival
  • Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festival
  • Tull Glazener
  • Deborah Hamouris
  • Hindman Dulcimer Homecoming
  • Kirk and Judy House
  • Melanie Johnston
  • Lorinda Jones
  • June Apple Dulcimers
  • Kentucky Music Week
  • Thomasina Levy
  • Master Works
  • McSpadden/The Dulcimer Shoppe
  • Ilace Mears
  • Jim Miller
  • Karen Mueller
  • Music for Healing and Transition
  • Ohio Valley Gathering
  • Original Dulcimer Players Club
  • Don Pedi
  • Quarantune Virtual Dulcimer Festival
  • Jerry Rockwell
  • Sandbridge Hammered Dulcimer Retreat/HD Homeland
  • Shindig on the Green
  • Songbird
  • Southern Wisconsin Dulcimer Club & Sweet Melody Strings
  • Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamps
  • Linda Thomas
  • Doug Thomson
  • Mark Alan Wade
  • Carol Walker
  • Wolf Hill Woodworking
  • Steve Zalph

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ISSN Print: 0098-3527
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