Mountain Dulcimer Player Stephen Seifert

Bluegrass Mountain Mountain Dulcimer - Patty Mitchell & Stephen Seifert

Whiskey Before Breakfast on a mountain dulcimer tuned DAD, capo 4.

Stephen Seifert performs "Columbus Stockade Blues", "Mississippi Sawyer" and "Shenandoah" at the Ohio Valley Gathering 2008. Then from our YouTube files, Jerry Rockwell demonstrates true diatonia on mountain dulcimer.

Here Steve talks a little about the different ways to play the dulcimer-banjo. He's really this laid back and funny in person too.

Performing Black Mountain Rag for the Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club on Sunday, January 25, 2009.

Wildwood Flower on a mountain dulcimer tuned DAD.

An excerpt from the Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival (June 2008), featuring Butch Ross, Jeff Hames, and Steve Seifert on mountain dulcimers. Captured by CommuniTV.

Stephen Seifert and Robert Nichols perform at the 2009 Chromatic Dulcimer Gathering using chromatic mountain dulcimers. Stephen is playing a dulcimer built by Bill Rich of Papaw's Dulcimers. Thanks to Bill for loaning this instrument to the event. (I'll ask Robert who made his dulcimer and add it to this description.) Visit http://chromaticdulcimer.com for more information on the gathering.

Rockwell and Seifert perform "Old Joe Clark"

Flatpicking with Black Mountain Rag - Learn to play the mountain dulcimer with book, CD, and DVD. Each lesson covers very beginner to very advanced.

Fingering with Whiskey Before Breakfast - Learn to play the mountain dulcimer with book, CD, and DVD. Each lesson covers very beginner to very advanced.

Strumming and Noting with Variety with Angelina Baker - Learn to play the mountain dulcimer with book, CD, and DVD. Each lesson covers very beginner to very advanced.

Fingerpicking with Home on the Range - Learn to play the mountain dulcimer with book, CD, and DVD. Each lesson covers very beginner to very advanced.

This is a brief overview of my beginner video set, Foundational Techniques for the Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Player. There's two DVDs, an audio CD, and a booklet.

I demonstrate my Jerry Rockwell traditional mountain dulcimer for the Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club on Sunday, January 25, 2009. Tunes include Going to Boston (Jean Ritchie), A Jig, Down in the Valley (Learned from Larkin Kelley Bryant) , and Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotton.) Tunings include CGC (DAD), CFC (DGD), DAA, and DF#A (135 or 1-3-5.)

More fun with the HV30. I had an absolute BLAST at the Pocono Dulcimer Club's 7th Annual Winter DulcimerFest in Stroudsburg, PA. After the festival, you'll see shots from my day on a frozen lake in the Poconos. After my trip home, I end a perfect weekend by hanging with the family. Music: Sandy Boys, Ken Kolodner and me; The Old Rugged Cross, Norm Williams and me; St. Anne's Reel, Ken Kolodner and me.

Tried out my new Canon HV30 on a trip to the WCU Mountain Dulcimer Winter Weekend at Lake Junaluska, NC. You'll see me performing "Closer Walk with Thee" with David Street of Sylva, NC. I'm playing a Jerry Rockwell. (LEFT) David's playing a Modern Mountain. (RIGHT) The nature shots near the end are of the Nantahala River and Lake Ocoee.

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Stephen Seifert explores musical possibilities on a true diatonic mountain dulcimer, no 6.5 fret, built by Jerry Rockwell. Many tunings are presented.

Stephen Seifert explores musical possibilities on a true diatonic mountain dulcimer, no 6.5 fret, built by Jerry Rockwell. Many tunings are presented.

Shows the different mountain dulcimer fret patterns used throughout the last 150 years or so. Demonstrations of traditional and modern styles.

Shows the different mountain dulcimer fret patterns used throughout the last 150 years or so. Demonstrations of traditional and modern styles.

Shows the different mountain dulcimer fret patterns used throughout the last 150 years or so. Demonstrations of traditional and modern styles. Check out his electric dulcimer.

Spanish Fandango on a mountain dulcimer tuned DAD.

Angel Band on a mountain dulcimer tuned DAD.

John Henry on a mountain dulcimer tuned DAD.

Soldier's Joy (PUBLIC DOMAIN) on a Mike Clemmer Ban-Jammer / Dulcimer tuned four-equidistant DADD. (low to high)

Cripple Creek in the clawhammer style on a Mike Clemmer Ban-Jammer/Dulcimer tuned four-equidistant DGDD. (low to high)

Rockwell and Seifert perform "Whiskey Before Breakfast"

Stephen Seifert talks about learning to play Jazz on a three-string mountain dulcimer tuned DAD.

Stephen Seifert talks about learning to play Jazz on a three-string mountain dulcimer tuned DAD.

Stephen Seifert talks about learning to play Jazz on a three-string mountain dulcimer tuned DAD.