Chimera — instrumental for guitar and Appalachian dulcimer

The dulcimer is tuned GDC.

Three Wise Mice, an instrumental for dulcimer, guitar, and goudtar

This is a recent performance of one of the first dulcimer tunes I ever invented (probably first played this starting playing this back around 1990). Now with even more fresh gourdtar!

"When John Lee Hooker Waltzes", a blues for guitar and dulcimer

Visual and aural stereo separation!

From an old hard drive, I recovered a bass line I had recorded some years ago for the prototype version of this song. Inspired, I fired up the camera and mics, ending up with this.

I like using the dulcimer this way; I think I'll look to do more pieces in this vein.

DIY Manifesto

I was reading Ann Hornaday's review of the new Jack Black vehicle, Be Kind, Rewind, when I was struck by her summation of the movie's agenda as a paraphrase of Marx:

Watchers of the world, unite, and seize the means of cultural production. You have nothing to lose but your chain stores.

Hell yeah.

Electric Gourdtar

Yes, friends, it's the gourdtar, the lap steel built from a long neck dipper gourd, in action.

"Flags" — Electric Dulcimer

Here's one with the dulcicaster in Les Paul mode...

My New Dulcimer in Action: "Wire Mountain Dancing"

This piece is an original, upbeat mixolydian number I've been playing for years. This is the sort of thing you can't help but play sometimes when you're tuned to DAD.

That sweet black dulcimer is the my amazing new dulcicaster. The same instrument also served (on an overdubbed second track) to provide the bass sound via its magically digital Variax internals.

Good times. Makes me tap my foot.