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...

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

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

David Shnaufer in the mid-seventies

High School sophomore David Schnaufer

I've already began writing about some early influences on David's development as a musician starting with Jean Ritchie. Another early...

Three notes I want to tell you about: one came the other day from someone whom has become dear to me through this project; she writes: ...

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...

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...

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...

Well, there it is: the Pluck e-Book is now live on Amazon. Print book coming very soon. It's a very strange feeling to see it on the...

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...

This is not *the* earliest music David made; that happened when he was five years old and learned to play the jaw harp. But this is the...

Still not sure who David Schnaufer was, or what he did that was so amazing? Alright, first return to this and this post about Jean...

His mother's gift of a Barlow knife from when he was a child ensured that David Schnaufer would play the fiddle tune on a dulcimer.