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Thank you for visiting. This site is dedicated to the promotion of the hammered dulcimer, as well as Celtic, Americana and World music. There’s no better way to learn more about this folk instrument than to hear it live in concert or experience a musical enrichment program! Besides the hammered dulcimer, we talk about its cousins, the plucked psaltary and the autoharp. The new kid on the block is the bowed psaltary, and we’ll demonstrate that for you, too. Dance music, you say?
Sure! Let’s go for the contradance and English Country dance music and perhaps some other ‘barn dance’ favorites and jigs and reels.
This site is updated frequently, so please check back often for the latest info from this little corner of our world. See you soon – maybe at a jam, a concert, a dance, or just playing out somewhere!
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Music Activates the Brain
A recent study by Finnish scientists shows that listening to music doesn’t just activate the auditory areas of your brain, it also activates the motor areas, showing the strong link between movement and music, and activates the limbic system (our emotional center.)
Gleaned from Vi Wickham’s music website:
We know that music makes us want to dance, and we know that music can make us smile or cry, and now we have substantiated scientific demonstration of this on a physical neurological basis.
Read the Article on Science Daily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111205081731.htm#.Tt_-kYbtl7I.email
Abstract of the Study:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811911013000