An Encounter with Michael Rugg and CapriTaurus Dulcimers
By Peter Tommerup with Julie Horner It began with a bike ride through the Santa Cruz Mountains on the summer day in 1974 that fundamentally changed my life. I was about to become a senior in college, was studying traditional Appalachian culture and folklore, and was learning to play the Appalachian mountain dulcimer — a 3-string hourglass shaped folk instrument…
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