Hammer Dulcimer Blog

Trying to sort out all that music theory vocabulary?  Minor 6ths?  Leading Tone?  V-V-I movement?  Tritone?  Here’s an ingenious, and fun,...

Life Beyond the Triad Chords Extensions Eventually most arrangers and composer seek fresh harmonies and unexpected harmonic movements. ...

The spring 2012 issue of Dulcimer Players News will carry my article titled "Composing on Commission".   The full article has det...

A musical interval that spans three whole tones is called a tritone ( three + tone ).  The interval created by three whole tones is an augme...

Many of the standard expression tools used on most instruments aren’t available to hammer dulcimer players.  We can’t do vibrato.  Bending n...