Re: Appalachian dulcimer and the 60s/70s folk revival

David Kilpatrick <iconmags3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The dulcimer can be played with thrash style hammers and runs.
> [...] zing to the sound [...] slam down a thumb-side [...] get
> the percussive frequency to ring out.
> I'll have to bring my McSpadden to Sany Bells.

Somehow a McSpadden doesn't sound like a musical instrument...

Kelso Dave slammed the bank's door open with one savage kick.
A practiced movement brought the McSpadden Special up out of
its case like a striking rattlesnake.

"Freeze!" he barked. "Open the safe before I get modal on your
ass."

The clerks stood with their hands up like a group of saguaro
cactus in the desert sun. K.D. motioned to Old Joe to go to
the safe. Staring down into the McSpadden's ebony blackness
and hypnotized by the glint of its mother-of-pearl inlays, he
obeyed. Fingers tickled the combination lock, then the hinges
moaned like a woman and the safe opened. Old Joe reached
inside - then spun round, a Bascetta in his hand. But not
fast enough - the McSpadden rang out once and it was all over.

"Fare thee well, Old Joe Clerk", K.D. sneered.

Old Joe gasped his dying breath: "Scheitholt!".


> Completely forgetting that he did bring the said dulcimer to the
> gig in the Botanical Gardens. But Jack sees too many instruments
> and probably had his back to me, and thought it was a banjo or
> the zouk.

I had another preoccupation at that gig and she meant I didn't
remember much at all of the musical content.

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