Western North Carolina Dulcimer Collective

The WNCDC publishes a quarterly newsletter containing arrangements of traditional songs for club members to work on together at our monthly meeting. Each song is arranged for mountain dulcimers tuned in both D-A-dd and D-A-AA. Standard musical notation, chords and note names are also given for players of hammered dulcimers and other instruments. This way, everyone can play together in the same key. Tunes can generally be played on just the melody string, but tunes are always arranged with full chording, for when you take that step.

Also available is an emailable newsletter in ".pdf" format. You'll need "Adobe Acrobat Reader" - a free program used by millions of people. (If you don't already have it, it's worth downloading.)
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Click here to listen to "midi" files of tunes not yet on our CD's - tunes from our 2006-2007 newsletters. These files are very basic melody lines, not dulcimer recordings, but might help you learn the tunes.

Our 1st quarter 2004 newsletter contains shortened lyrics to our January tune, "Young Charlotte". Click here to get the full 22-verse lyrics to this song: