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Thread #160746 Message #3880581
Posted By: Howard Jones
06-Oct-17 - 03:56 AM
Thread Name: Civil War Dulcimer??
Subject: RE: Civil War Dulcimer??
Pipes are a red herring, and the suggestion that the dulcimer was influenced by British settlers' nostalgia for their native bagpipes (whether Scottish, Irish or English variants) is just fantasy, as Jack says . Drones were a common form of accompaniment and many instruments besides pipes have used them, including the zither family forerunners of the Appalachian dulcimer.