Pack Up Your Sorrows

[octagon]

Richard's first wife was Carolyn Hester

[jps]

I have a double album Mimi & Richard Farina set going back to the '70s. Great music!

I used to play dulcimer and keep wanting to buy another one but the good ones are really expensive.

[kiramdear]

I have an old dulcimer that sounds pretty decent. It's a lot of fun and easy to play.

If anyone is interested I'll post a pic

[jps]

Postaway®.

[kiramdear]

It's rough and homemade but very charming. Here I took the strings off for cleaning. Like the nice antique-y patina?. That's a little number I call Smog-glo :

[jps]

Home-made from scratch or a kit?

[kiramdear]

I really don't know but I suspect it is from one of those kits from the seventies. It was owned by a good friend who passed away, and broken when I got it up near the nut. A little battlefield surgery got it playable again but I never even cleaned it until today. The wood really reminds me of those kits from when we were kids, remember?

[jps]

You can still get kits, but they are usually pretty cheap in quality. I'd like to get a good one that the frets are actually in the correct locations.

[kiramdear]

Yeah, I know what you mean. That's a nice one that Richard Farina is playing in the video above.

I'm surprised JimK hasn't found this thread.

[octagon]

Too bad Richard died so young,he was a brilliant author as well as a musician.His novel "Been Down So Long,It Looks Like Up To Me" is a classic and if you never read it do your self a favor and find a copy.