Handmade dulcimers, books, music, and online instruction brought to you from Athens County in rural Southeast Ohio.

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• Contact Us

• MySpace
• YouTube Channel
• Stephen Seifert's Web Site

Blog

• JCRockwellDulciBlog

DulciTheory

• DulciTheory On The Web

Events Calendar

• 2009 Events Calendar: Concerts, workshops, classes

JCR Recordings

• Favorite American Folktunes
• Blackbird & Beggarman
• Too dark to work, too light for candles

JCR Book Catalog

• Music Theory &
  Chord Reference
• Beginners Tunebook
• Dulcimer Solos Volume 2
• Blackbird & Beggarman
• Dulcimer Solos Volume 1

Handmade Mountain Dulcimers

• North Carolina Hourglass
• Large Hourglass
• Hollowbody Electric
• The Yam
• Teardrop
• Rockwell's FAQ
• On Buying a Dulcimer

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About the Artist

• Jerry C. Rockwell Bio
• JCR Bibliography and Discography

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Articles

• Getting in tune:
  four ways
• Improvisation
• Arranging for dulcimer
• Chordal Explorations
  in D-A-D
• For Music Teachers
• The Cabbage Waltz

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Jerry Rockwell's
Mountain Dulcimer Page

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Summer Update

I'm currently working on some new models: very basic 3-string, all-hardwood dulcimers, and I should have some stock pretty soon. I'll be doing some workshops at the Fort New Salem Foundation Dulcimer Festival coming up on August 13-15 at Salem, WV, and I should have a few of these with me. This is a great little festival, and Linda Sigismondi always does an outstanding job of putting together some fine workshops.

Other than building dulcimers, another activity that's keeping me very busy is refreshing all my various online profiles and hooking up everything with my new ReverbNation Store, where you can actually buy my tracks as downloads. Yes, I know I'm extremely late to this little party, but I figure that it's better late than never!

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Blackbird & Beggarman Now Available on iTunes!

Thanks to the wonderful folks at tunecore.com, my CD from 1994, entitled The Blackbird & the Beggarman is now available at iTunes.

Here is the link to the iTunes Music Store, where you can preview and download individual tunes, or the whole album:

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Stephen Seifert
and Jerry Rockwell
on FolkAlley.com

In May of 2008, Stephen Seifert and I did a little tour of Ohio dulcimer clubs and folk groups.
Our very first event was this interview at WKSU in Kent with former host Jeff St. Clair.

The audio for the entire interview, including three sets of tunes, as well as video for each of the sets is now up on folkalley.com. FolkAlley has to be one of the finest folk listening experiences online or offline:

http://www.folkalley.com/music/extras/seifert-rockwell/

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Long story made short:

Jerry Rockwell is a full-time musician, recording artist, teacher, mountain dulcimer builder, composer/ arranger, and music theory advocate.

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The Cabbage Waltz

2008 is roughly the 30th anniversary of the publication of my book entitled Chordal Explorations for 3-String Dulcimer, which I self-published in a small 5.5" X 8.5" edition while living in Northern Vermont. The main chord progression I used to illustrate the C, F, and G7 chords (in CGG or 155 tuning) was the infamous "Cabbage Chords" -- or the chorus chords to Bile Dem Cabbage Down.

Three decades later, it seems that almost everyone is playing in DAD or 158 tuning, and I've found myself playing almost exclusively in 4-equidistant DADD in recent years. As for the Cabbage Chords, for me they have really stood the test of time, and I've spun them into many different genres, grooves, and time-signatures...

...The Cabbage Waltz was written as a New Year greeting at the end of 2008, and includes links to PDFs and MP3 audio files.

Read the complete article online.

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