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Thread #139546   Message #3201554
Posted By: Will Fly
04-Aug-11 - 07:37 AM
Thread Name: appalachian dulcimer
Subject: RE: appalachian dulcimer
Enjoy your dulcimer! Suibhne has mentioned the late, great Roger Nicholson - who sadly died early last year after many years of poor health - who was dulcimer pioneer, along with John Pearse, in the UK. Roger's seminal album "Nonesuch For Dulcimer", with Bob Johnson on guitar and vocals, has been one of my favourites since I bought it in the 1970s.

One of the tracks on that album was "In Good King Arthur's Day" - which I sang only a day or two ago at a gig. When I received my dulcimer - made for me by a wonderful luthier from Baltimore called Dave Sewell, I just had to pay tribute to Roger with:

In Good King Arthur's Day

And let's not forget dear Jean Ritchie - "Kytrad" on this forum - still with us! Jean it was who helped me to get in touch with Roger before his death.