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Lauper took up the Appalachian dulcimer, taking lessons from David Schnauffer.

She appeared on the live finale of the eighth season of American Idol on May 20, 2009, performing a duet of " Time After Time " with top-13 finalist Allison Iraheta, accompanying the song on Appalachian dulcimer.

The Dulci-More Festival, a music festival dedicated to the Appalachian dulcimer and other traditional musical instruments, was inaugurated in 1995 and takes place each Memorial Day weekend at Camp McKinley, a Boy Scout camp near Lisbon.

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Many instruments ' frets are not spaced according to the semitones of equal temperament, including the Appalachian dulcimer ( with frets in a diatonic scale ), the Turkish Saz ( with frets spaced according to the Makam system of Turkish folk music ), the Arabic Buzuq ( with frets spaced according to the Arabic maqam system ), and the Persian setar and tar ( with frets spaced according to the Persian Dastgah system ), and the Turkish tanbur ( with as many as 5 frets per semitone, to cover all of the commas of the Turkish Makam system ).

The term " citre " is also used more broadly, to describe the entire family of stringed instruments in which the strings do not extend beyond the sounding box, including the hammered dulcimer, psaltery, Appalachian dulcimer, guqin, guzheng ( Chinese zither ), koto, gusli, kantele, gayageum, đàn tranh, kanun, autoharp, santoor, yangqin, piano, harpsichord, santur, swarmandal, and others.

* Jean Ritchie, folk musician, singer, and songwriter who plays the Appalachian dulcimer

Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer, and guitar.

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# REDIRECT Appalachian dulcimer

The Appalachian dulcimer ( or mountain dulcimer ) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings.

Although the Appalachian dulcimer first appeared in the early 19th century among Scotch-Irish immigrant communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the instrument has no known precedent in Ireland or Scotland.

Jean Ritchie and others have speculated the Appalachian dulcimer is related to similar European instruments like the langeleik, scheitholt and épinette des Vosges.

Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer, and guitar.

The fretted dulcimer — often called the " Appalachian " or " mountain " dulcimer due to its popularity in the region — emerged in Southwest Pennsylvania and Northwest Virginia in the 19th century.

He employed a trademark very high falsetto to portray female characters, and often accompanied himself on an Appalachian dulcimer, lute, or other plucked stringed instrument.

Bluegrass, as a distinct musical form, developed from elements of old-time music and traditional music of the Appalachian region of the United States.

The Appalachian region was where many English and Ulster-Scots immigrants settled, bringing with them the musical traditions of their homelands.

In May 1925, Mountain City was the site of a musical gathering, the first Mountain City Fiddlers Convention, that is considered a landmark event in the modern history of Appalachian traditional music.

The musical bow is generally played on its own, as a solo instrument, although it is sometimes played, amplified, as part of an ensemble in Appalachian old-time music.

Zydeco combines elements of an older American musical style that began in the late 1700s, Cajun music, a style that consists of French fiddle tunes, Irish Celtic fiddle tunes, German button accordion, Latin rhythms, and Appalachian styles.

As the new settlers traveled south through the Appalachian Mountains and beyond into the Deep South they came into contact with Irish immigrants, Scandinavians ( practictioners of a unique yodeling called kölning ), and other nationalities including African slaves who communicated with " field hollers ", described by Frederick Law Olmstead in 1853 as a ‘ long, loud, musical shout, rising and falling and breaking into falsetto ’.

As the homeland of many of the settlers of the original 13 Colonies, and a major source of immigration thereafter, England's musical traditions are closely tied to those of the United States, especially Appalachian folk music.

Whilst on the road, she learned to play the Appalachian dulcimer, which was to become a feature of her musical output in the following years.

It was then, as an itinerant high-school dropout, that he was introduced to Appalachian musical traditions via the repertoire of the unsung Indiana combo Hurricane Sadee, whose performances of folk and bluegrass standards opened Joplin's eyes to a new world of lyrical depth and musical expression.

His audio engineering credentials appear on numerous albums with a wide spectrum of musical styles, from the pop-punk sounds of bands such as Anti-Flag, Rise Against, Screeching Weasel, and his own band Teen Idols, to the heavy, " death metal " sounds of Human Filleted and Catatonic Atrocity, as well as the Country-roots, folksy-blues sounds of The Clayton Miller Blues Band and Appalachian String Band.

Along with recording and re-recordings of older Appalachian musicians and the discovery of newer musicians, the folk revivalists conducted extensive interviews with these musicians to determine their musical backgrounds and the roots of their styles and repertoires.

The Appalachian dulcimer achieved a renaissance in the 1950s urban folk music revival in the United States through the work of Jean Ritchie, a Kentucky musician who introduced the instrument to New York City audiences.

Meanwhile, the American folk musician Richard Fariña ( 1937 – 1966 ) was also bringing the Appalachian dulcimer to a much wider audience, and by 1965 the instrument was a familiar presence in folk music circles.

The Appalachian dulcimer is now a core instrument found in the American old-time music tradition.

As a folk instrument, wide variation exists in Appalachian dulcimers.

Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

The northern portion of Cape Breton Island is dominated by the Cape Breton Highlands, commonly shortened to simply the " Highlands ", which are an extension of the Appalachian mountain chain.

Simcoe's first priority was dealing with the effects of the Northwest Indian War, in which American Indians warred with the United States over encroachment in their territory west of the Appalachian Mountains.

The Champlain Valley is the northernmost unit of a landform system known as the Great Appalachian Valley, which system stretches from Quebec to Alabama.

The Champlain Valley itself is a physiographic section of the larger Saint Lawrence Valley, which in turn is part of the larger Appalachian physiographic division.

For example, the Appalachian Mountains range is the parent of other ranges it comprises, some of which are the White Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Mount Katahdin is both the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, which extends southerly to Springer Mountain, Georgia, and the southern terminus of the new International Appalachian Trail which, when complete, will run to Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador.

A mountain cove is a small valley, closed at one or both ends, in the central or southern Appalachian Mountains which sometimes results from the erosion of a geologic window.

Garrett County lies in the Allegheny Mountains, which here form the western flank of the Appalachian Mountain Range.

The western part of the county contains a portion of the steep Allegheny Front, which marks the transition to the higher-elevation Appalachian Plateau and Allegheny Mountain region.

Washington County is located in the Appalachian Mountains, stretching from the Ridge-and-Valley Country in the west to South Mountain in the east, which is an extension of the Blue Ridge.

It is known for its rich valley farm land and is part of the Great Appalachian Valley ( also known simply as the ' Great Valley ') which is a long narrow valley strip often between tall mountain ranges.

Two former members of the Appalachian Green Parks Project, Jim McGaw and Charlie Lewis began performing with Jimmy Prouty and went on to form the New Vinton County Frogwhompers Marching, Singing, Strumming and Plucking Society in 1976, which was to become one of the most popular groups to come out of the region in the 1970s.

In the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) which ended the American Revolutionary War, the British abandoned their native allies and ceded the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River to the United States.

Today UNCG competes in the Southern Conference, which is made up of 12 schools across five states in the Southeast including Appalachian State University, Elon University, Davidson College, and Western Carolina University.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

The Appalachian Trail enters Connecticut in the northernmost and least populous town in the county, Sherman, and moves east into Litchfield County which encompasses the majority of the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut.

Pulaski County is the site of Claytor Lake State Park, which is located on Claytor Lake, a, long man made lake on the New River created for a hydroelectric project of Appalachian Power Company.