THE HAMMERED DULCIMER
The hammered dulcimer is an ancient trapezoidal musical instrument played by striking the strings with wooden hammers.
Originating in the Middle East about 2000 years ago, English soldiers brought the instrument back to England after their failed attempt to conquer Persia during the Crusades about 1000 years ago. Dulcimers have many names in many lands: santur in the Middle East, yang q'in in China, hackbrett in Austria, zither in Germany, and cymbalom in Hungary. The name "dulcimer" is derived from Latin, meaning "sweet sound". Hammered dulcimers were popular in England during the reign of James I, when the Bible was translated into English as the King James Bible. The dulcimer was mentioned in the Book of Daniel 3:5 among other instruments "..the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick..." The dulcimer was later mechanized to become what we now know as the harpsichord which later evolved in the piano.
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as every one know I lost a lot of stuff from this blog due to my own stupidity. I am currently trying to put together the the Ohio Blog Roll and The Recovery Blog Rolls. I need everyone's help in doing this,so if I had you listed on either one of these blog rolls,and I have not put you blog back on please let me know.
9 comments:
Hi Mike.
First I want to tell you your blog has been added to the bloggers over 50.
You may have to refresh your browser to see that your "Rambling Stuff" is on the members' list now.
And secondly, I was reading your play list. I LOVE "I've been riding through the desert on a horse with no name".......if I hear it, I'm singing it all day long.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Hope your Sunday has treated you well.
Hey Mike,
I know the feeling. Blogger has been giving me a lot of grief lately too. Not so much with freezing, but with uploading pictures or clips. I have been blaming it on the satelite hook up, but now I think I can lay the blame where it really belongs. ..Hang in there.
Anni,thank you.
Jo,there are days.when I just want to pull my hair out.When it get that bad a c/d goes flying into the computer and I calm down.It used to be when I got really frustrated the Dulicmer strings really took a beating.
Yeah, back when I was on blogger, I'd save my stuff incessantly because the strangest things would happen. I find that happens now when I comment on blogger sites. Sometimes the comment just goes away, and I have to re-write. Frustrating.
Blogger can be a pain at times. I am not sure why. Hope it stops being a pain for you!
I have tagged you for a mimi on my blog. Hope you don't mind. :)
Noelle,aside from the frezzing up of some of the sites I visit,I have head relitively no porblems with my site so far.(knock on wood)
Myati,I'll come trucking over to your site and check it out.
I hate it when this happens. I have to try to back out and then everything freezes up, its a real pain.
I hate that too. Wanna hear something funny?
When I clicked over here from my reader, it seemed like your blog was going to freeze up!
LOL!
Now that's some irony for you.
Valarie there are times that I just hit the power off switch on my surge protector then turn every thing back on again.
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