On 30/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >> 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
Cotty? Stan! Stan. Cotty. Now I'm losing the plot ! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
