Quilts by Karen Nuzzo

Karen, my wife, is an off again on again artist who is currently teaching elementary art. She has made some beautiful art quilts Visit her at karennuzzo.com

My sister Karen is an excellent fiddler and has been part of the Reel World String Band for over 20 years. They just produced another in a series of excellent CDs. There are soundsamples on their web site.

Garret my youngest son used to be an origami fanatic. To see some of his constructions you might want to visit his origami site. He also has a site on How to Build a Bog Site (for carnivorous plants). a site dedicated to his collection of diecast cars and his new site dedicated to his photography

One talented guy! This is what happens when you homeschool. He's now at Virginia Tech studying Horticulture.

I get a lot of inquires about historical concert zithers. I hope these links will help you out.

http://www.fretlesszithers.com

http://www.kahnhome.org/zithers/index.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~minermusic/fretless_zithers.htm

http://www.minermusic.com/dolceola/fretless_zithers.htm

Or you could write to Janet Stessl (editor of the Zither Newsletter)

Janet Stessl, 6173 N. McClellan Ave., Chicago, IL 60646
773-631-2854, telephone
773-631-2379, fax

e-mail janstessl@aol.com

I get a fair number of requests for information on building your own dulcimer. Fortunately there is a lot more information available now than there was when I got started 25 years ago. The link takes you to a bunch more information I've pulled together. I'm sure there is more.

If you'd like to find out more about hammered dulcimers, hammered dulcimer instructors etc I suggest you go to these sites

The Kitchen Musician's Hammered Dulcimer Site

Everything Dulcimer

There are now two on-going newsgroups on the instrument. The first is moderated. To join, contact by e-mail hammerd@mcs.. The moderator is Bill Paulson. The second is unmoderated.To subscribe to the list send the following message to majordomo@fmp.com

subscribe hammered_dulcimers end (Type the previous message exactly as written including the _. All this goes in the message area of your e-mail.

Brett Ridgeway maintains a Hammered Dulcimer Player's List. It is organized by state with an indication of who teaches in each state. A valuable resource

To subscribe to the Sweet Music Digest, sent an e-mail to:
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Apparently there is a discussion group formed recently to share resources and techniques on the Bowed Psaltery. Check it out at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/bowedpsaltery/

For those of you in central Virginia, you might be interested in being involved. We have a range of informative meetings and a fairly active membership.