Music and instruments.

[Marshal harpoluke]

 

Play the Harp (Celtic, Irish lowhead & Welsh triplestrung), Guitar, violin, organ(reed), Shofar (Rams Horn), Dumbeck(Middle Eastern drum), tamberine, Recorder., etc et nausium.

There were many instruments.

[River City John]

The typical lap dulcimer, called Appalachian dulcimer, etc. didn't really come into use in it's most commonly seen form until after the turn of the 20th century. I used to build and play them.

[GunClick Rick]

I play harmonica and Native American flute.There was a thing called a rollmonica,it had a harp on the side and a player sheet on the inside like a playere piano and you blew in one end and turned a crank while blowing.Not sure when they were made.Been wantin to get me one..I see them ever onc and awhile and there is a guy that mkes the perfortted rolls from originals that he finds...

[Trinity]

I play harmonica and Native American flute.There was a thing called a rollmonica,it had a harp on the side and a player sheet on the inside like a playere piano and you blew in one end and turned a crank while blowing.Not sure when they were made.Been wantin to get me one..I see them ever onc and awhile and there is a guy that mkes the perfortted rolls from originals that he finds...

Sounds like an instrument I can actually play! 

[River City John]

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html

http://www.lib.unc.edu/music/eam/search.html?browse=series&Vol=New



Wanted to add a couple interesting sites to this thread on 19th cent. music.

[Ozark Tracker]

Here's another site, it has recordings of old timers singing and playin all the old songs they knew.  I have a great uncle that is recorded on there. Fred High,  High, Arkansas.

a lot songs long forgotten.

http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/singerfj.html#anchor3

[River City John]

Love the site!

I wish there was some indication of the origin and date of the timeframe of the songs, in addition to the recording dates.
A lot of them have passed into 'folklore' status, I know, though many are associated with historical events, like sinking of the Maine or Casey Jones incident.

[Ozark Tracker]

I do enjoy listening to some of the songs, you know some of them old people learned those old songs from their grandparents and parents who lived before during and after the Civil War.  a lot of history to pass along,

[Doc Neeley]

If you want to do an interesting search, look up gourd banjo's. There are several craftsment making these old time instruments.

[Kentuckian]

I play in an 1860s band playing 1840s, 50s & '60s songs. I play fretless banjo and the rest of the band plays fiddle, bones, tambourine, guitar. All instruments are gut strung... no modern instrument or sound to us. Music comes from original banjo manuals and sheet music.

www.myspace.com/allendalemelodians