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...

I learned a lot from doing the research for this bio, and probably the most significant thing I learned was that--starting in his...

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...

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...

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...

If you've never heard of the Lomax family, you're in for a world of discovery and wonder as was I when I started this project. But, I get...

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.

Since joining the dulcimer community I’ve heard several people say that mountain dulcimer players are some of the nicest people you’d...

David discovered flow via the dulcimer; watch Adam Grant's TED Talk, "How to Stop Languishing & Start Finding Flow" to learn how flow works.

I first heard his name when I joined the Nashville Grand Old Dulcimer Club. We live in south central Kentucky, a short hop to Nashville...

David Schnaufer's journey from the Gulf Coast of Texas where he was born through his time when he “made it” to and in Nashville forms the...

David Schnaufer is not the only main character in Pluck; so is America's first folk instrument, the Mountain Dulcimer. It was not planned...

Unless you lived through the folk music times starting in the forties, you may or may not have heard of Jean Ritchie. When I started the...

The first time I heard the name “David Schnaufer” was in Chicago in 2007. It barely registered in my mind. My husband is the serious...

When we moved to southern Kentucky in 2013, a local friend invited me to visit her dulcimer club to hear the members play. The...