i got home from bal class tonight in a bit of a funk. i was going to just go straight to bed and sulk, but instead found myself in front of my dulcimer, pondering. dad sent me new dulcimer hammers for christmas and i really haven't had much of a chance to play with them. they're a different weight and definitely a little bit longer. and tonight, i noticed that i can feel the string vibration through them. heh. strange how i can't just pick them up and play. it required me shifting my playing habits down about an inch and a half...heck, i even had to take a step back to shift down. dad said he thought they might help with faster music. i think i could see this being true. the weight is more in the head of the hammer so they have a bit more bounce to them. my other ones have ebony handles, so the weight is between my fingers. hah. more than you ever wanted to know about hammered dulcimer hammers. ;)
anyway. the fact that i had to completely concentrate to even do triplet scales helped my mood. and then there's 'midnight on the water'. i love that song. makes me feel like i should be on the banks of the mississippi somewhere, listening to the crickets chirp while the fireflies wink in and out of the trees.
anyway, i'm still sulky, but not quite so much as earlier.
Posted by kendra at March 2, 2005 11:15 PM