Folding Dulcimer Stands
To suit most of the above instruments. A very portable stand.
Price: $180
Dulcimer Accessories
Hammers plain and padded, tuning wrenches to suit special sized pins. Please enquire.
Dulcimer Tutor and sheet music
Getting Started - a tutor book and CD set to help you learn the dulcimer. Based on my many years of helping people learn the dulcimer. Price: $28 plus p&p.
Enquire about the range of music published by Preisslers in Germany. The catalogue in English is right here. If you live in Australia, you can order Preissler music now online by using the secure order form. If you live outside Australia, then contact Musikverlag Preissler directly.
A Bag of Sticks: Vol. 1 Leaping off the Plateau - by Gillian Alcock & Andrew Purdam. Tunes in two three and four parts, and techniques to expand your repertoire. Book with separate parts supplied. Cassette with karaoke versions of the tunes for learning your part whilst listening to the other parts. Price:$25 plus p&p.
Dulcimer lessons
- private tuition. All ages welcome, beginners and non-beginners. $20 per half hour.
New! CD
The Pleasures of Hope: CD Gillian Alcock, dulcimer and Andy Rigby, harp
Two of Australia's best known instrument makers - playing their own instruments. Tunes come from the folk tradition, early classical times and the late 20th century. New compositions by Gillian Alcock and Judith Clingan are complemented by some spiffy arrangements by Andy, Gillian and Andrew Purdam.
Contents include:
Coniston Water (G. Alcock)
Constantine Maguire/ O Carolan's Draught (T. O Carolan)
The Downfall of Paris (Trad. arr A. Purdam)
La Folia in OZ (G. Alcock)
SOL (J. Clingan)
Dollard's/ The Harlequin (Trad)
La Partida (Trad)
The Pleasures of Hope/ The Hof Hornpipe (Trad/ G. Alcock)
Sonata in G (M. Chiesa)
Connor Dons (Trad)
Dan Mack's Polkas (Trad)
Kate Kelly's Waltz/ Charlie Abdullah's/ Starry Night for a Ramble (Trad)
The Bantry Girl's Lament/ Morgan Magan (Trad/ T. O Carolan)
Available from Abels or online for $25 plus p&p.
*** 1997 Canberra Critic's Circle Award for Music***
Awarded to Gillian Alcock for her major contribution to the musical life of Canberra as musician, teacher and internationally recognised dulcimer maker, and for her new CD The Pleasures of Hope.
You can order these items online now by using the convenient and secure order form.
These items are available now.
Any questions? Gillian.Alcock@netspeed.com.au
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