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Features
- The Applecreek Dulcimer is handcrafted in Europe by experience luthiers using the finest materials available. Features a lamintaed spruce top, richly stained back and sides, and geared guitar style tuning machines for easy tuning. Applecreek Dulcimers are made using the most tested construction techniques for long live and precise fretting for perfect intonation.
- The "You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer" book and DVD is by Madeline MacNeil. Her performances are characterized by her effortless vocals and impeccable mountain and hammered dulcimer playing. In this book she reveals some of the secrets of her success with the mountain dulcimer. Early on, she reminds the reader that "the dulcimer is not a toy or a stringed kazoo" but a serious, expressive musical instrument capable of "stretching as far as the imagination". She endorses both playing by ear and learning to read standard notation. In easily-understood language she manages to explore some very complex, even esoteric concepts, making this a particularly valuable book for the beginning instrumentalists. You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer is simply a great fundamental book. Twelve intensive lessons in 95 pages. Standard notation and tablature. Illustrated with photographs and drawings.
- Madeline MacNeil brings her considerable expertise in teaching the dulcimer to the video companion to the book of the same title. The format is both comprehensive yet easy to understand. Ms. MacNeil covers such areas as tuning, scales, strumming, fingering, chord studies, alternate tunings, use of the capo, and the "noter." In addition, she demonstrates a substantial number of fine dulcimer arrangements.
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