I'd long wondered about Roger - where he'd disappeared to after being so influential in the dulcimer world. As far as I'm aware, he was on holiday when struck by some disease or other which left him almost permanently an invalid and unable to perform professionally. I got in touch with him in December 2008 to ask after him, and received a letter some weeks later in early 2009. He'd been in hospital over the Christmas period with pneumonia but was typically cheerful and talking about playing his ukulele! Then he died in, I think October or November of that year.