Thank you for conserving this rare video! Do you have a link to the original, unretouched version?

What a delightful story. Thank you for sharing!

She was from Hazard right?

I think it was somewhere small in Perry County! Maybe one of those little places around Hazard? @@kakashi392

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

The audio is great, though!

Since he is Pete Seeger (and his show), he is trusted. Anyone else who isn’t an equal, as you say, shouldn’t touch.

Joan Baez and now Josh Turner (Josh Turner Guitar), so these great songs will still be sung and recorded long after today’s pop music is completely forgotten.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely take that into account when I make my next video.

Yes it is!

Thoughts? How was the assignment?

One day it will worm its way back into your mind and you’ll find a beautiful world in this music.

That's probably correct, but the German and Norwegian dulcimers are related and the video I found of the Norwegian dulcimer was better than any I could find of the German dulcimer!

@The Folk Revival Project yeah it seems as though the Langeleik is still a popular folk instrument in Scandinavia. Interestingly, I haven't seen any native Germans play the dulcimer, and I also have never heard of a Dutch dulcimer or any historical reference to dulcimers in Pennsylvania. If you look at a map of Europe, the Dutch and Germans share a border, so it's likely they shared musical interests and styles over centuries. Norway is a little to far away to have the same influence as Germany on the Netherlands and furthermore, most of the Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century after the development of the Appalachian Dulcimer. In my opinion, the knowledge of dulcimer was likely brought to southern Appalachian via German immigrants. Btw I have a dulcimer that was pasted down from my grandfather to my father to me so the orgins of this instrument are dear to me. The older generations seem to have no memory of where or how the dulcimer got here.

Early German immigrants to PA had zither style instruments with them that may have evolved into the dulcimer, but the dulcimer itself does truly originate in Appalachia, whether with the Germans or with groups that adopted and adapted the parent instrument type

@seirbhíseach the dulcimer is a zither. The biggest difference with the Appalachian style is it's simpler in design and less droning strings. The German Scheitholtz is considered the forefather to the modern dulcimer. Its not entirely original. Conventional wisdom says the dulcimer came through PA but I haven't seen any historical evidence to back that up other than hear say. It appears to me that the Germans that went to Tennessee and Kentucky came through from Virginia. I haven't seen any footage or heard of anyone playing dulcimer in Pennsylvania in the 20th century. Which means it probably didn't happen in the 19th century, which would imply it never happened there.

@@connoryork6631 I can only speak for my father's family, who were originally Swiss German and came to America in the mid-1700s. They married first into the Mennonites in Pennsylvania, but moved down to Kentucky after the Whiskey Rebellion. Whether any of those emigrants played dulcimer, I don't know, but I do know that quite a few members of the family, including my great-grandfather, had dulcimers and knew how to play. So, no, not all Germans came through Virginia -- although it should be noted that the eastern part of Kentucky was, at that time, part of Virginia.