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The hammered dulcimer has a wondrous, magical sound... a full, rich tone with glorious sustain. Once it gets into your soul, nothing else quite comes close. The simplest melody can take on an intimacy and a fullness far beyond the actual notes being played.
Here are a number of videos of my hammered dulcimer playing.
This is a piece I wrote called "Awakening to Epiphany," recorded by Lake Winnipesaukee... you can occasionally hear the water in the background:
Here is a tune I wrote called "Ode to Amy and Big Kim":
And here's one I call "Crush on You":
This one is an earlier excerpt from "Awakening to Epiphany":
My dad shot this video of me playing my version of Walt Michael's "Snowblind":
A friend suggested I figure out the intro to Rush's "Closer to the Heart." It works!
Here I am performing at the 2004 Victorian Streetwalk in Saratoga Springs, NY:
Here's a short little thing I just call "Snippet":
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I first heard the wondrous sound of the hammered dulcimer at a county fair in Eastern Tennessee at the age of thirteen. I remember thinking how fascinating the instrument was, yet how incredibly difficult it must be to play. The performer was John McCutcheon, one of the finest hammered dulcimer players in the country. I didn't give it another thought for many, many years. In the meantime, I learned to play the 5-string banjo and then the guitar. I had a great time with those instruments for about twenty years, and for several years was heavily into contemporary fingerstyle guitar. I found myself unsuccessfully trying to reproduce the brilliant sustained tones that were in vogue on fingerstyle guitar albums by artists such as Alex DeGrassi and Ed Gerhard. Then one day I was listening to a cassette tape of amateur acoustic guitar and stumbled upon a duet played by acoustic guitar and hammered dulcimer. I recalled my earlier exposure to the instrument many years before, and I realized that the hammered dulcimer offered the brilliant sustained tones -- the "wall of sound" effect -- that I had unsuccessfully been striving for on guitar all along. Within a month I had purchased my first hammered dulcimer -- a Master Works 15/14 model -- along with a John McCutcheon instructional videotape, and had begun teaching myself to play. That was over ten years ago, and I've been hooked ever since!
Music is many things for me... it is something I do for enjoyment and relaxation, and I also perform on various occasions. My instrument is a gorgeous mahogany Master Works 16/15c, with very rich tone and a long sustain. It is equipped with pickups for amplification, and I play through a state-of-the-art Bose Personal Amplification System, which produces an extraordinarily clear sound that projects evenly throughout the performance space. I also play 5-string banjo in the bluegrass band Riverview Ramblers.
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Hey Bill! Great to meet you! Man, I got to tell you, i spent about an hour on your page! Absolutely loved your playing and music! And the lake, leaking into the recording- Wonderful! Really enjoyed all those videos! And the Rush song? Nice touch!! You really bring your instrument to life! And isn't that what it's really all about? Would love to see you perform if you're ever in NYC! Wish you all the best and stay in touch bro. And bye the way can you play some 'YES' on that? Wonderous Stories,Turn of The Century,Round-about........... .........LOL! Ed available at itunes
Hiya Bill! Go raibh míle maith agat as do cairdeas, agus bionn tú anseo ar an "myspace." Is máith liom dó leathanach é agus dó ceoil é. Ádh mhór. (Thanks immensely for your friendship and for being here on Myspace. I really like your page and your music. All the best.) Síocháin leat- (Peace be with you-) Pádraig + (Gaeilge, or "Irish Gaelic" above) +
Always great to meet another H-D player.
Beautiful music too.
I particularly like Carol of the Bells.
It reminds me of a Welsh Harp piece my wife plays, also about Bells.
Catch you on your next tour of Ireland!
Cheers
Hi Bill, thanks for the Add...wanted to drop in and tell you how lovely your music is. I am finishing up a trad Irish CD, and will look forward to more music from you. Cheers!
