How to use Mountain Dulcimer in ITM?
Half a year ago I built myself a mountain dulcimer. The reason why I built it was pure curiosity, I stumbled upon some pictures of MD’s on the net and got interested. The simplest and cheapest way to obtain one (as I live in Sweden) seemed to be to build one – and so I did. It’s a very nice instrument and I love to play it on late nights when all other instruments would disturb family and neighbours. But of course I’m interested in using the instrument when I play with other musicians. So here’s my question: How do you use the instrument when playing ITM? Cos I know that the instrument is used for this kind of music “over there”. To me it seems impossible to play fast reels and jigs on it. The instrument is originally intended to be a solo-instrument with the drone strings accompanying the melody string. And though ITM has a lot of drone tones in the chords, it’s very unusual to let one single chord ring through a whole tune. And if you chose to play the MD in a more “modern” way and m
