LL-L: "Music" (was "Pronouns") LOWLANDS-L, 29.JUN.2001 (02) [Ap/E]

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From: Stan Levinson <stlev99 at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L: "Pronouns" LOWLANDS-L, 28.JUN.2001 (03) [Ap]

> From: fr.andreas at juno.com
> Subject: LL-L: "Pronouns" LOWLANDS-L, 27.JUN.2001
> (01) [E]

>      Oh, eah, an A bin a-playin the dulcimer sinst
> 1976. They's a
> festival up the road a piece in Cosby, Tennessee
> ever year but A'm aways
> a-warkin an cain't git off fer hit. Gin ye was
> a-wondrin, A play mostly
> Myxolydian acause o the perty chords ye kin git wi
> hit. A fanger-pick
> hit, an use a banjer roll too. Do ye foller?

I can hear the dulcimer singing from our Appalachian
Picker's email!
Stan

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From: Edwin Alexander <edsells at idirect.com>
Subject: LL-L: "Pronouns" LOWLANDS-L, 28.JUN.2001 (03) [Ap]

At 10:10 AM 06/28/01 -0700, Fr Andreas wrote:
>      Oh, eah, an A bin a-playin the dulcimer sinst 1976. They's a
>festival up the road a piece in Cosby, Tennessee ever year but A'm aways
>a-warkin an cain't git off fer hit. Gin ye was a-wondrin, A play mostly
>Myxolydian acause o the perty chords ye kin git wi hit. A fanger-pick
>hit, an use a banjer roll too. Do ye foller?

I shore do, broer.  I've been aplayin the Autoharp, Appalachian style since
1965, and am the biggest fan of the original Carter family of Clinch Mtn,
Virginia and other parts.  I also used to play the dulcimer, but probably
not like you since I can't imagine doing a banjo roll or any finger picking
on it.  The lowlands connection?  The Autoharp was invented in 1875 by a
German immigrant to Philadelphia from a Zither by putting chord bars on it
and it spread throughout rural North America as a simple, easy to use
instrument in schools and especially rural churches.  In the 1920's
Maybelle Carter picked one off her lap and started playing it across her
chest, and it became a staple instrument of folk music, especially that
originating from Appalachia or having an Appalachian style.

Ed Alexander

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