Sam Rizzetta: Showing you the tools 

Sam Rizzetta: Showing you the tools 

Compiled by Fiona Potts | I wanted to share Sam Rizzetta's story in his own words – first with excerpts from Maddie MacNeil's interview of him in Vol. 9 No. 1 (1983) (we adapted the cover of that issue for this anniversary issue), followed by selections from his "The Answer Column" and "Technical Dulcimer" columns through the years....
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Vincent Farsetta playing the dulcimer he made for himself, which he used while recording for John Lomax III's upcoming album "Lomax on Lomax." Photo by Linda Paulus. — Dulcimer Players News

Profile: Vincent Farsetta

By Linda Paulus | Vincent Farsetta didn't start life in the mountain places that eventually would infuse his soul. He was born just thirty miles from New York City while Jean Richie and Alan Lomax were jumpstarting urban interest in the Appalachian dulcimer, and where folk music waves were washing over, around, and through Greenwich Village...
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Jean and Lee Schilling, who ran the Folk Life Center of the Smokies and hosted the Cosby Dulcimer Convention, were featured on the cover of Maddie MacNeil's first issue as the sole editor. She wrote a short piece about them and included the arrangement "Mountain Sky" from Jean. From the DPN Archives Vol. 5 No. 1 (1979).

Gatherings: Jean and Lee Schilling

Jean and Lee Schilling, who ran the Folk Life Center of the Smokies and hosted the Cosby Dulcimer Convention, were featured on the cover of Maddie MacNeil's first issue as the sole editor. She wrote a short piece about them and included the arrangement "Mountain Sky" from Jean. I am reprinting them here, followed by some festival reports and a few of my favorite vintage ads.
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Cover of Grant Olson's debut album "Solo Dulcimer."

Album Review: Grant Olson’s ‘Solo Dulcimer’

By Karen Mueller | In September 2019, the dulcimer world was taken by storm when 17-year-old Grant Olson won first place in the National Dulcimer Championship in Winfield, Kansas. To many, he seemed to appear out of nowhere, playing stunning arrangements of challenging pieces on a four-string chromatic dulcimer...
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