Hello Nancy, if you love dulcimers you should attend the Highlands Festival here in Abingdon. They have it the first two weeks in August each year. There are always dulcimers for sale that are hand made, plus lots of other antiques and crafts. Danny -----Original Message----- From: nancy hammes <nhammes@net66.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 9:13 PM Subject: Re: Celtic music and Bluegrass >3/20/99 > >Dear All: Ive always wondered why I loved the hammered dulcimer and the >lap dulcimer!! It has to be my VA/Scottish/Melungeon(?)/Irish ancestors?!! > I also own 2 lap dulcimers, one was hand made for me from an old fellow in >VA. I got it many years ago when I went to Davis and Elkins College one >summer for classes on herbs. I love my dulcimers. And I sure love the >music. Nancy/Illinois > > > > > > > > > > >At 01:31 AM 3/19/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Dear List, >> Growing up in Kentucky I cared little for "hillbilly" music and even less >>for the "high lonesome" tenors singing bluegrass. The accoustic >>instrumentals of the post-Monroe groups I really enjoyed. I attended many >>festivals while living in Ohio and Michigan and it was there I met the >>hammered dulcimer. It was love at first sound. >> In learning to play this instrument I learned many, many Irish jigs, reels >>and ballads. I learned an equal number of fiddle tunes. There is no doubt >>in my mind that Bluegrass evolved from our Celtic heritage. >> >>Sue McN. >> >> >>==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >>#9 As of 2/27/1999 we have 485 members. Traffic can get heavy so check your >>mailbox often. We should regulate traffic so it don't get out of hand. >>There is an average of ten members coming and going each week. >>-sysop >> >> > > >==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >#5 It is YOUR responsibility to know how to SUBSCRIBE & UNSUBSCRIBE. It is done >by computer. Put the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message with nothing >else. The address is sw_va-l-request@rootsweb.com . or -d- for DIGEST mode. >All this is in the Welcome statement I ask you to save. -sysop > >