Re: new tunes

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Hey Paul,  I loved "the Gorge"

I also love the quote from Copland in 'Simple Gifts'.

The Mountain Dulcimer is such a beautiful instrument..............it is so 
exotic and ethereal sounding.

And Ted is correct.................you are cordially invited to come to a 
30 
minute set at Y2K6 next October in Santa Cruz.
This year we had 50 artists from 7 countries and in all the years I've 
played we have never had a looping dulcimer player.

I also play a little dulcimer and some hammered dulcimer as well.   Neal 
Hellman is a good friend of mine and lent me a beautiful
mountain dulcimer to practise on.  If you don't know his work, he is a 
wonderful and influential dulcimer performer.

I particularly love the way that you can retune the bass string on the 
mountain dulcimer and play in different modes than
are normally played in traditional Americana.    I love playing in both 
Phrygian (middleeastern sounding) and Lydian (balkan sounding)
using this technique.

  The only time I"ve ever played dulcimer on stage was when I was awarded 
the Calabash Award for Service to the Ethnic Arts in Santa Cruz County.  
Two 
really good dulcimer players I know were in the audience so I was really 
nervous.

It was also,  sadly, the very last time my mother saw me play so I have a 
lot of sentimental attachment to the piece.
I must get this piece transferred from the video into audio.  If I manage 
to 
do it, I'll send it to you.

Nice work,   thanks for posting,  yours,   Rick



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "paul" <phaslem@wightman.ca>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:26 PM
Subject: new tunes


> Hi,
>
> I don't know if any of you have had a chance to listen to the new tunes 
>I 
> posted on my web site yet
> ( http://members.tripod.com/Dulcimer_Traditions/newstuff.htm ) but I am 
> interested in feedback.... of the non screeching type....
>
> If you listen to some of my older work you'll see that this is a fairly 
> significant departure in style from earlier recordings. I live out in 
> rural Ontario, a place that I love, but the folks out here just hear it 
>as 
> sort of noise... I'm hoping for a more receptive audience when I play in 
> Toronto in a couple of weeks.
>
> If you're reluctant to post your comments in the forum, drop me a line 
>at 
> <phaslem@wightman.ca>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Haslem
>
> Ontario, Canada
>
> www.dulcify.ca
>