Recent Updates
- Arr. of "Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me" 8/31
This week we are going to look at the hymn "Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me." This hymn's text is about Christians raising their Children correctly; with instruction from scripture and within the church.
- An Arrangement of "Hold to God's Unchanging Hand"" 8/09
This week I arranged a hymn for the dulcimer by request. The hymn requested is “Hold to God's Unchanging Hand.” I believe there are many tunes used for these hymn text, but I chose the original tune written by Franklin L. Eiland...
- "Dulcimer Arrangement of "Thats Enough for Me"" 8/03
After a short recess, I’m back adding new hymns to the Dulcimer Hymnal website! This week we’re going to look at a hymn called "That’s Enough for Me."
- Dulcimer Arr. of "I Am his and He Is Mine" 7/13
Sorry that I wasn't able to update my site yesterday; I'm in the middle of remodeling my house. This week a hymn that was recently written and put into the public domain library. It's a hymn called "I am His and He is mine."
- Three New Dulcimer Arrangement Videos!" 7/07
I've just uploaded three new videos of some of my past hymn arrangements onto Youtube; "Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus", "Softly and Tenderly" and "There is a Fountain." I wrote each of these arrangements last year...
The Dulcimer Hymnal is an effort to give the mountain dulcimer the same quality
music that a piano or organ hymnal would have. The arrangements were written to resemble
the original keyboard versions as close as possible, by retaining the original melodies,
harmonies and chord inversions as best as possible. All the hymns are arranged for
the standard DAD tuning and can be used for solo or ensemble playing.