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Picture of an angel playing the Dulcimer from a carving in Manchester Cathedral
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Chairman:  Christine Smith Send Email:

 

 

Duties:

 

 

  

  1. To chair committee meetings and the AGM of the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club.

  2. To set agendas for those meetings in consultation with committee members.

  3. To prepare an Annual Review of club activities.

  4. To ensure that the requirements of the Constitution are upheld.

  5. To sustain the momentum of club business.

  6. To maintain an overview of the workings of the club, seeking to promote inclusion and co-operation, whilst respecting the ideas and opinions of individuals.
About me:   I have played the piano since I was 6, so can read music well.  I fell in love with the hammered dulcimer at a medieval fayre in the States about 5 years ago, and brought one back on a subsequent visit, and started trying to play from a book.  this was quite hard-going, and I did not get properly motivated until I joined the NDC about 18 months ago, and then went to Launde 2003.  After that, I was really hooked, and I now try to play every day.  The dulcimer stands in the lounge, so I often stop to play a tune as I pass!  I found it difficult at first, after the piano, to reverse what my right and left hand do in terms of bass and treble!  I have at last removed all the prompt notes from my dulcimer, and feel I am getting to intermediate level, tho' I have a long way to go.  I have been to York, Cork, Cornwall, Fylde and Launde again, this year, and look forward to meeting up with other players, as it is so refreshing, and one learns such a lot from these meetings.  My other interests are bobbin-lace-making, embroidery, photography, gardening, I belong to a choir, and of course, my 3 children and 5 grandchildren, not to mention my other half, of course! the joys of retirement! I offered to help on the committee, as I felt I wanted to "play my part", and also to meet other players, and hopefully extend my playing skill