Music Exchange

From DPN Vol. 12 No. 4 (Fall 1986). Editorial The Music Exchange column is for people trying to find arrangements of favorite songs and tunes and sources of old music remembered from childhood. It can also include requests for out-of-print albums, musical accessories and anything else applicable to this magazine. Answers…
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Letters to the Editor

From DPN Vol. 12 No. 4 (Fall 1986). Compiled by Maddie MacNeil Dear DPN: I recently requested a copy of Nancy Groce's book "The Hammered Dulcimer In America" from the government printing office and was told that it is out of print. Since the book was a Smithsonian Institution publication, I…
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Editor’s Letter

From DPN Vol. 12 No. 4 (Fall 1986). By Maddie MacNeil Dear Readers, I wish you were here with me. Oh, it would be lovely to play some tunes and talk music. But you probably wouldn’t want to be here if you saw all of the work to be done. I’m…
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Ralph Lee Smith on the cover of DPN Vol. 8 No. 3.

Ralph Lee Smith

By Cathy Sabol, from the DPN Archives Vol. 8 No. 3 (1982) | McDougal Street, Greenwich Village, New York, 1956. The folk music revival was in full swing, and the Folklore Center was selling dulcimers 'imported' from North Carolina for $30.00 a piece. Ralph Lee Smith, freelance writer and player of the harmonica, guitar, banjo, and bones, decided to invest in this strange instrument. Fortunately it came tuned. ...
Posted inMountain Dulcimer Tales and Traditions, Vol. 50 No. 2