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Thread #34443   Message #464963
Posted By: Chicken Charlie
17-May-01 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: Your favourite tunes on lap dulcimer
Subject: RE: Your favourite tunes on lap dulcimer
"False William" has a melody that lends itself to the dulcimer/dulcimore/dylcimur. When I do it I find myself singing in more of a mountain voice than usual. Fun. If you don't recognize it/know it, get back to me.

I also love older hymn tunes, which have marvellous set chord possibilities.

Beautiful Savior
Just As I Am
are good starters.

More fun are "Jesus Thy Blood and Righteousness" (air/tune is "St. Crispin") and "How Can I Keep from Singing," which I learned for a contemp. wedding and then learned was trad after all. At opposite ends of the temporal gamut, Foster's "Hard Times" and "We Shall Overcome." Finally for by now necessary faster change of pace song, a couple decades back "praise music" folks took "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" and jumped it up, tempo-wise. I like to do all this stuff with banjo picks.

Speaking of which, I'm just coming back off a day away at a conference and haven't caught up on my posts. I don't know if anyone is still speaking to me after the hard time I gave all the noter users of the world. Guess I'll find out.

Adiosaderci for the moment,

CC