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- Bowed_dulcimer abstract "The bowed dulcimer is an instrument that is held upright, with the bottom of the instrument held on the player's lap. It is about the size of the Appalachian dulcimer and has a teardrop shape. The bowed dulcimer has a sound deeper than that of a violin's, much like the viola or cello. The instrument is normally played with a cello bow.The bowed dulcimer has a long history that stretches back to Europe in the 16th century and the 18th century in America. Before World War II, using a bow to play the lap dulcimer existed side by side with the plucking and strumming technique. You can find examples of bowed ducimers in the dulcimer collection at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and also in the collection at the Blue Ridge Institute at Ferrum College in Ferrum Virginia. Professor L. Allen Smith feature several examples in his well-known historical survey A Catalogue of Pre-Revival Appalachian Dulcimers.The more modern version of the instrument was developed by Kenneth Bloom of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina in in the late 1990s. Looking for a way to play a bowed instrument without the uncomfortable positioning the violin requires, he created his first bowed dulcimer based on the viola da gamba in October 2001 after making approximately 25 prototypes.Frets are laid out in either a diatonic dulcimer pattern or chromatic, the latter allowing the player to cover a variety of genres of music including old time fiddle music, jazz, klezmer, Early music, Baroque and even rock and roll.The modern bowed dulcimer has a flat back and a soundboard which is carved and graduated. The instrument features a soundpost and a bass bar like most modern bowed instruments. Some bowed dulcimers include sympathetic strings running through a channel under the fingerboard to provide an echo effect. Various versions of the bowed dulcimer include:Standard Bowed Dulcimer: three playing strings tuned DAD, either fretted diatonically or chromatically. This is the most common version.D'Amore Bowed Dulcimer: same as the standard but with sympathetic strings.Octave Violin:a standard bowed dulcimer but with an additional string giving a low G. It also utilizes a cello fingerboard and can be seen either fretted or unfretted. Occasionally found with sympathetic strings.Pocket cello: similar to the Octave violin but strung and tuned like a cello, also occasionally seen with sympathetic strings.Pardessus Bowed Dulcimer: about twelve inches shorter than a standard and seen with either three or four strings. Can be pitched in the violin range using violin strings or in the same pitch range as the Standard and Octave Violin using viola or octave violin strings. Again occasionally seen with sympathetic strings.Bass Bowed Dulcimer: like the standard but tuned one octave lower.Double bass bowed dulcimer: the newest addition to the bowed dulcimer family. It is pitched two octaves lower than the violin and one octave lower than the Octave Violin Bowed dulcimer, tuned GDAE. It utilizes the Novax system for fretting permitting the high string to be twenty five inches ong and the low string to be twenty six and three quarters long.All of these are played upright with the appropriate bow, either a cello or viola bow, depending on the size of the instrument. Strings are standard violin, viola, cello orplain steel guitar strings.Classes in bowed dulcimer are held at a variety of festivals throughout the year and Mr. Bloom hosts a bowed-only festival in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina each year in April.".
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- Bowed_dulcimer comment "The bowed dulcimer is an instrument that is held upright, with the bottom of the instrument held on the player's lap. It is about the size of the Appalachian dulcimer and has a teardrop shape. The bowed dulcimer has a sound deeper than that of a violin's, much like the viola or cello. The instrument is normally played with a cello bow.The bowed dulcimer has a long history that stretches back to Europe in the 16th century and the 18th century in America.".
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