Enjoy, this is almost exactly the line-up I used to play with a few years ago, we found that the hammered dulcimer was an excellent instrument for harmonies of the low variety, I'm sure if they really tried they could find some little 'licks' between lines and such, the manin thing, as someone said earlier is to think of yourself as another instrument and dammit, go for the harmonies of they come to you, it'll blow people away. It's funny how reading the dots can be restrictive isn't it? You think that reading music gives some sort of freedom, but in a session situation it can really hold you back, I was talking to a wonderful fiddler here in London last night and she was very nervous because she ca't play be ear, and she makes her living from taching the fiddle, yet in the session she was a real beginner, thought for the day, sorry to ramble. Bye. Sue