If the dulcimer and/or its music is new to you, then this post is for you. It is the second of three posts where I will make the case...

There are two main characters in Pluck; one is David Schnaufer, the other is the mountain dulcimer. If the dulcimer or traditional music...

1960: Folk Revival begins. Jean Ritchie introduces Richard Fariña to the dulcimer./Nancy Johnson (later, Nancy Barker) gets her first...

I'm sorry to say this didn't occur to me to include in Pluck prior to publication, but a couple of people suggested I should have...

If David were alive today, I believe he would have been great friends with Jamie Laval--they would have had much to talk about. During...

A brief summation of the Hero's Journey as it relates to the biography, Pluck The Extraordinary Life and Times of David Schnaufer

High School sophomore David Schnaufer

1. What does it mean to have a “good life," and who should define what a good life entails? In what ways do we making meaning of our own...

The research for David's early dulcimer playing years for Pluck was greatly facilitated by the wonderful Lois Hornbostel. Luckily for me,...

One more from the Fariñas that is just as relevant to today as it was in the sixties. Their powerful song, "Children of Darkness" is...

My sister Cindy texted me this photo (below) with the message: "I'm all choked up---this came in the mail yesterday but I just got it."...

So, I mentioned Richard Fariña in an earlier post without considering that some readers who might visit this Blog might also not know who...

When I first started the research two years, one of my goals was to find as much of David's published music as possible to listen to in...

If you're unfamiliar with the mountain dulcimer, a bit of explanation about fret numbers, and more specifically, the title of this post....

Rick shot me an email today in which he commented on the Jack Master's track from the "Merry Christmas from David" post; "As I listened...

What can I tell you about Rick Freimuth? Well, first of all, he was (and still is) a gift of the Muse. He makes his 1971 appearance in...

Thanks to Jack Masters and Vanderbilt University/Special Collections and Archives, take a listen to this track to mark today, Christmas...

Recently David's old friend Jack sent me some photos and correspondence from David that he had saved from the mid-seventies. I've always...

Bonnie Carol and Max Krimmel in their Colorado workshop

Okay, so a big part of Pluck is the biography of David and a bit of historical context for both David and the dulcimer for those who are...