Bill Schilling

 Spring 2008 Workshops with Bill Schilling: 
Beginning Mountain Dulcimer
Beginning Hammered Dulcimer
Beginning Autoharp

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"The irrepressible Bill Schilling was our instructor.  For those of
you who know Bill, you'll know what I mean when I say Bill's feeling
for the music is infectious.  His love of the folk genre and of the
autoharp was immediately apparent and made it that much easier to
learn.... I couldn't have imagined a more comprehensive class or a better
setting in which to hold it."
Rick M of Maryland on Spring 2005 Beginning Autoharp Workshop as posted on cyberpluckers

April 4-6,2008:  Weekend Beginning Hammered Dulcimer Workshop
Level: Beginning
Tuition: $110
Course Times: Friday 7 - 9 PM; Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM & 1:30 - 3:30 PM; Sunday 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Course Description: Using several common jam and club tunes, we'll start with simple melody playing and do a lot of work with chords as one of the best options for adding interest to playing whether for accompaniment or embellishment. Tuning tips and care tips will help get the most from instruments and hammers. We will focus on playing from written music and/or by ear depending on the needs of the students. A variety of hammering techniques and patterns will give students ideas about ways to proceed as they become more familiar with their instruments. Loaner hammered dulcimers are available.

April 11-13,2008:  Weekend Beginning Mountain Dulcimer Workshop
Level: Beginning
Tuition: $110
Course Times: Friday 7 - 9 PM; Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM & 1:30 - 3:30 PM; Sunday 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Course Description: Our major concerns in this course will be melody playing along with drones as well as playing chord backup. We will work with DAA and DAD tunings and find out how these can work together. We will also try DAC tuning to find out about playing in minor modes. Tuning tips and helpful hints will be covered. We will use tab and written music and play by ear. As time allows, students will hear and may try harmony playing techniques and melody chord style playing. Some loaner mountain dulcimers will be available.

April 25-27,2008:  Weekend Beginning Autoharp Workshop
Level: Beginning
Tuition: $110
Course Times:Friday 7 - 9 PM; Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM & 1:30 - 3:30 PM; Sunday 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Course Description: This course will center on becoming comfortable with your autoharp from finding the best position for holding your autoharp to becoming acquainted with your chord bar setup (and maybe learning if another setup can easily be done which will work better for you) to learning left hand techniques so that you will not have to look at your chord bars to learning various strum and picking patterns. We will mostly work on accompaniment styles for playing with your own singing, with the singing of others, or with other melody instruments, but we will also try some melody playing with the melody strum and be exposed to other melody playing styles. Written music with chords and melody chords will be available, but we will also work on playing by ear. Tuning and instrument care techniques will be covered. Some loaner autoharps will be available.

 

Bill Schilling has been singing and playing various folk instruments for over 30 years. He has performed for audiences of all ages in many settings from coast to coast; has led workshops around the northeast and has taught a week-long beginning autoharp workshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. He is the founder of the Salem, Ohio Dulci-More Folk and Traditional Musicians, and the Dulci-More Folk Festival. Bill is the music director for Sheepfest at Weatherbury Farm and Folk Music on the Farm.

Bill plays 6 and 12 string guitars, autoharp, hammered and fretted dulcimers, bowed psalteries, banjo guitar, National steel guitar, ukuleles, recorders, digital horn, jug, and an assortment of inexpensive or homemade instruments. His large repertoire of songs includes old favorites or more recent ones by some of today's singer-songwriters; many to bring a laugh or some to bring a tear to the listener; ones with special emphasis for particular audiences; or the occasional original.

 Bill Schilling and Linda Sigismondi have a CD,  "Songs from Canal Days";  Bill also has six books available presently.
 

 Spring 2008 Workshops with Bill Schilling: 
Beginning Mountain Dulcimer
Beginning Hammered Dulcimer
Beginning Autoharp

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Weatherbury Farm Vacation
1061 Sugar Run Road
Avella, Pennsylvania 15312

Autoharp, Mountain Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, Clawhammer Banjo, Bowed Psaltry  Workshops and Concerts. 
Mountain Dulcimer is also known as an Appalachian dulcimer, lap dulcimer or fretted dulcimer.
Some folks call Hammered Dulcimers Hammer Dulcimers