To eliminate (or at least reduce) confusion, I would like to point out that I wrote the reply below to Bob Waldken's Coleridge posting. And indirectly addressed a question from Cotty in the same reply. The "Cotty" at the bottom is NOT the signature, it is the beginning of a sentence I did not complete.
(And the answer to the question: "what is he drinking tonight?!" is "Black Swan Shiraz," a low-end Australian which is actually quite nice. If you like a red wine which bites back.) Stan on 11/30/03 8:47 PM, Stan Halpin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 11/30/03 4:55 PM, Bob Walkden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Sunday, November 30, 2003, 9:46:17 PM, you wrote: >> >>>> I am not a musician by any stretch of imagination, but I do play the >>>> Appalachian Dulcimer. One or both of my instruments will accompany me to >>>> GFM >>>> where I will pay for my travel by accepting bribes to not play... >> >>> You're coming to GFM with a dulcimer, Stan? COOL. >> >> Not often seen on mountains outside Ethiopia: >> >> "A damsel with a dulcimer >> In a vision once I saw >> It was an Abyssinian maid >> And on her dulcimer she played, >> Singing of Mount Abora." >> >> -- S T Coleridge > > Sorry Bob, THAT dulcimer is what we here on this side of the pond have come > to call the Hammered Dulcimer. My wife plays that one; she is in fact worthy > of the Musician title. > > For those of you over there, there is a museum of musical instruments in > Brussels (in the Old English building) which has examples of the (hammered) > dulcimer in many forms from many countries, plus more than a few Swedish and > German instruments which were the apparent forerunners of the quite unique > Appalachian Dulcimer which I try to play. > > I built my first from a kit about 6 years ago, I bought my second on eBay > last week and picked it up on my travels this weekend. I'll bring both to > GFM. > > Cotty > >
