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A Mexican Song
for Mountain and Hammered Dulcimers:
Cielito Lindo
by Bonnie Carol
About the Author
That's me, Bonnie Carol. I began teaching dulcimer almost as soon as I learned to play it, and through those first years teaching, I came to understand my own informal musical education better and how to communicate it to others. I played piano from the time I could walk, accompanying community theater and school choirs till I went to college and discovered the guitar and folk music. When I was twenty-five, Max Krimmel made a fretted dulcimer for me, and I cobbled together enough information to make some sense of the modes and tunings, and off I went - learning to play. I began doing everything dulcimer - I built dulcimers, I taught dulcimer, I made dulcimer recordings, I wrote dulcimer books, and I performed on dulcimer. In 1979, Dana Hamilton offered to trade me a hammered dulcimer he made for a fretted dulcimer I made, and thus began the study of new instruments for both of us. Dana won honors in various fretted dulcimer contests at about the same time I did so with his hammered dulcimer. This was the genesis of this book for both dulcimers.
Visit Bonnie's website, http://www.bonniecarol.com for more information about the dulcimers she builds, and more.
Mel Bay Titles by Bonnie Carol:
20432 Dulcimer Jam: Favorite Jam Session Tunes for Hammered or Fretted Dulcimer Book
20433 La Musica: Latin American Music Arranged for Hammered and Fretted Dulcimer Book
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