Here are some articles that you might find interesting:
Caring for your dulcimerSome ideas on how to treat your dulcimer and protect it from the ravages of the world.
Improving your dulcimer playing
Click and set yourself up to succeed.
The Great Dulcimer Search ... where are the interesting dulcimers kept? In museums around the world. Find out where and how you can contribute to a worldwide research project.
Conquering performance fears
Playing for friends or in concert, here's some practical advice to make it easier.
Simple Acoustic Theory
Ever wondered why some sounds are musical and others are not? Here is a bit of fundamental acoustic theory to get you started.
And some links to useful places:
The Hammered Dulcimer Page A place you'll find lots more links and useful information.The Cimbalom World Association's page Meet people who play dulcimers of all sorts.
David Kettlewell's thesis on dulcimer players and their instruments. Explore the world of dulcimers through the words of an expert.
Classical MIDI Archives A truly awesome collection of music in MIDI format. It will keep you busy learning tunes forever.
CIMCIM Links If you want to explore musical instrument collections, this is a good place to start.
La Folia's homepage Find out about a piece of music so loved it has its own homepage.
MIMF The musical instrument makers forum. A place to discuss instrument making with like minded makers.
Pundit Shiv Kumar Sharma Everything you want to know about the Indian santoor.
Andrew Purdam's Page Andrew has eclectic tastes, plays percussion instruments really well and writes music books with me.
Peter Coombe Mandolins Australian made mandolins with a great international reputation.
The Australian Dance Music page If you're looking for traditional Australian dance music, Graham's page is the place to go.
The Monaro Folk Music Society's page This page will take you through the many adventures of Australian folk music.
The Boite in Melbourne, a dynamic centre for acoustic and world music.
The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club has a page for the English dulcimer scene.
Fred Woodley is a cheerful and musical part of the real English dulcimer tradition.
Folk Australia is a big general door into the Australian folk scene
The Kitchen Musician for dulcimer tunes galore, information and links aimed at the American scene.
Folkclub Online provides an eclectic set of links to all places folkish around the world. For online chat, info and heaps more.
Johannes Fuchs knows all about making Swiss hackbretts.
Geoff Smith plays amazing music for dulcimer in England. And he has ideas on the directions dulcimer can take.
Rudi Zapf is at the centre of hackbrett playing in Bavaria. He runs the wonderful International Hackbrett Festival in Munich every two years as well as running his busy performance schedule.
Stanley River Music is the place to go for stringed instruments by Doug Eaton.
Any questions? Gillian.Alcock@netspeed.com.au
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