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Dulcimers in the Heartland - America's Heartland
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the music of the damer is a sound
associated with many rural communities
in the South the instrument was being
constructed and played well before the
United States became a nation and here
in Eastern Tennessee that tradition is
Alive and
Well in the early days of the American
Republic the rolling landscape
surrounding the Great Smoky Mountains
was home to some of America's First
Farmers and Ranchers
it was also home to a uniquely
Appalachian sound created by a uniquely
American musical
[Music]
instrument an instrument called a
duler Connie clemer and her husband Mike
are well known to damer musicians from
all around the world working in his
small shop in this rural Tennessee
Community Mike uses native woods from
the forest nearby to create
one-of-a-kind musical instruments the
local Woods that I use are the Walnut U
sassr Butternut Cherry uh a lot of woods
like
that translated from its Latin Origins
the word damer means a sweet song
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