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NOTES ABOUT DULCIMERS
HISTORY, HYMNODY
AND ALL KINDS OF MUSIC

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Monday, April 05, 2010

aging hippie w/ dulcimer

Wear's Valley Road, Sevier County, Tenn., ca. 1979Dulcimer was by the late Dorsey Williams of Jefferson City, Tenn. Made of two bookended pieces of burled walnut. Stolen out of my car in Springfield during the 1990s.

Pete at 8:25 PM

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Pete: I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.

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