CHAPTER 4: The Dulcimer in the British Isles

4.6 - East Anglia

CONTENTS
 
How long have there been dulcimers in East Anglia?

Where in East Anglia have there been dulcimers?

Instruments
 

bridges

 

size

 

courses of strings

 

tunings

 
decoration
 

hammers & plectrums

 

- foot
-
case
-
saddles
-
labels

 

how old?

 

portrait of one instrument

People - players who are remembered but no longer alive

Will Lawrence
"Dulcimore Johnnie"
Mrs. Martin's uncle
Dennis Cox
Crotchett and Dartnell
Billy Cooper's father
Mr. Moore
Billy Cooper
'an old chap'
George Willmot Lawrence
Joan Goreham's grandfather
Joan Goreham's uncle
William Sampson
Peter Harvard
Walter Clabburn's father
Walter Clabburn
Frank Rice
Mr. Rutland

People - the generation or two younger

Billy Bennington
Walter Deacon
Bob Peek
Reg Arnold
Walter Geary
John Youngman
Molly Whitaker

Reg Reader

Russell Wortley
James Rodger

People - younger players

Colin Hall
Tony Singleton
Stephen Shipley
Bridget Westrop
Bernard Duffield
Ken Saul
Brian Rodger
Decline