Several people have asked how I was able to write a biography of someone whom I had never personally met, so this last of three posts...

In 1988, Frets magazine, "The Magazine for Acoustic String Musicians" featured a smiling Richard Thompson on its cover. It also...

Remember the old Reader's Digest recurring series, "My Most Unforgettable Character"? Well, Neal Hellman is in my Top Ten list of most...

Crawling back from the misery of a very bad cold, I have been catching up with emails. A few in particular came from Tom Harleman who...

Writing on this project has enabled me to get to know and learn from a whole host of remarkable and talented people, some from within the...

"Harris Picking" was David's first submission to Dulcimer Players News.* It appeared in 1979, and he was twenty-six years old. Allow me...

David Shnaufer in the mid-seventies

The research for David's early dulcimer playing years for Pluck was greatly facilitated by the wonderful Lois Hornbostel. Luckily for me,...

So, I mentioned Richard Fariña in an earlier post without considering that some readers who might visit this Blog might also not know who...

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

Bonnie Carol and Max Krimmel in their Colorado workshop

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

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...