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Hi, I'm Steve Eulberg and when I first started playing the dulcimer

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it took me way longer than I think it needed to

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because

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I didn't understand the instrument.

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I knew music, I knew instruments, I played a lot of instruments, but the dulcimer was

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befuddling because it took away some of the options that I expected.

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Now for many people that makes it easier to understand,

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but I had the hurdle of what I already knew that I had to get over in order to make progress.

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You know how long it took me?

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3 years.

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Now that's not to say that I didn't play anything in those 1st 3 years. I played a lot of things.

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I found books that I played out of and I played the numbers they said. I knew note values.

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I could figure that stuff out, but I didn't know the music that was within the books with the numbers.

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I say it took me 3 years because after 3 years,

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all of a sudden,

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I could take what I had worked on for those 3 years and I could apply it to music I already knew.

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I could apply it to music that was in a book that didn't have any numbers in it.

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Just musical notation. So I say it took me 3 years to play music. I could play numbers.

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I could play the songs in the book.

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But the ones I really knew, the ones I really wanted to play, that took me longer than I think I needed to.

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So that's why Linda Ratcliffe and I put together this

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program at Dulcimer Crossing to give you all the tools that would have been great to have accessible to us when we lived in places where nobody knew

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exactly what it was we were doing. And so they couldn't really help us do it.

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We want that path to be faster

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for you. So Doeltzer Crossing is created to help you move on the path you want to be on

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faster and more effectively

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in a way that helps you get to where you want to go.

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Learning to play the music you love on the dulcimers you love.