Chords for Getting Started With The Mountain Dulcimer Part 1

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_ _ _ [E] Aloha and welcome to the fourth season of the Dulce America video podcast now simply known as Dulce America
My name is Bing Futch and as for the past three years, I've been your host
Through tips and tricks workshops road trips interviews and special [Dm] performances and demonstrations
that'll be no different this year and we're looking forward to a lot of excitement since we have a
Lot of stuff on the calendar and it's gonna be a lot of fun starting off with this month going [N] off to Kentucky
To Pennsylvania to Anaheim and then finally to Key West, Florida for the Key West dulcimer fest lots of fun to be had
But to start things off.
I know that in December we had a lot of mountain dulcimers join the ranks.
Well
Welcome to the family and you're probably trying to figure out how to
Get acquainted with this wonderful new instrument
So I've got just the thing [Eb] a sneak preview of video that I'm working on for full craft instruments
It's called getting to know [G] the mountain dulcimer and I'll show it to you in several different parts
[N] but we'll kick things off with the intro and very basic things like how to get your strings on the instrument [G] and
Other stuff like that.
[B] So enjoy and we'll see you on the flip side
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_ _ _ _ _ _ The Appalachian [C] mountain dulcimer is America's [G] only native stringed folk [D] instrument
Created just over 200 years ago by settlers who had [D] arrived in the newly created United States
Much like the people who fashioned [A] it the [D] instrument has roots in a number of countries from Germany and Sweden to Norway and Hungary
But the mountain dulcimer also known as a lap dulcimer is a uniquely American [A] creation in this [D] video
You'll learn the basics of playing this beautiful instrument from tuning up to playing a tune
But first, let's take a look at the anatomy of a mountain dulcimer
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ Mountain dulcimers come in many shapes and sizes, but the two most traditional shapes are the hourglass and the teardrop
[G] The _ [D] wood on top of the dulcimer is called the soundboard
These openings in the soundboard are called tone [Bm] holes and can also be many different shapes [G] and sizes
[D] _ [A] Running down the middle of the instrument is the [G] fingerboard on
Top of that are [D] strings which stretch from the headstock down to the [G] tailpiece _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Dividing the fingerboard into [D] sections are frets
_ _ [G] _ Tuners are located [D] in the headstock and can be [A] wooden pegs or metal gears
_ [G] The end of the fingerboard closest to the head is called the nut while the end closest to the tailpiece is called the [D] bridge
_ _ the shallow fingerboard area by the bridge is called the strum hollow and
The [G] sides and back of the dulcimer [A] are named [D] accordingly
_ [G] Many instruments have strap buttons that [D] allow for a strap to be connected
Some [G] instruments have a pickup installed inside the body [D] in this case
The strap button at the [A] tailpiece [G] is also an instrument jack where you can plug in an audio [D] cable for amplification _
[G] Now that we've gotten acquainted with the different [D] parts of the mountain dulcimer.
Let's get [A] ready to play
[D] _ [G] Right then that was part one of getting started with the [A] mountain dulcimer
And if you are just getting started the rest of the video that you'll see in later episodes
Here we all [Ab] help you to get [F] rolling and even playing tunes [G] reading tablature
[D] Stringing them up that type of stuff.
So thank you for watching and
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As I head off to snowy Bardstown, Kentucky _ _
Anyway, thank you very much for watching and until next time as usual mahalo nui loa
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