Hammered Dulcimer in Film Music
Renowned studio percussionist Emil Richards had a hammered dulcimer in his giant Emil Richards Collection and used it in numerous soundtracks, especially in those with eastern Indian or American Country themes. His dulcimer is chromatic, with a three-octave (C3-C6) range.
Read more about this topic: Hammered Dulcimer
Famous quotes containing the words hammered, dulcimer, film and/or music:
“The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.”
—Japanese proverb.
“Experience, like a pale musician, holds
A dulcimer of patience in his hand.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
—Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)
“We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)