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A double album CD featuring early recordings entitled: Hammer Dulcimer & Guitar, MM101, and Hammered Dulcimer Traditions, MM102, now combined into one long playing CD- it's over sixty minutes of all-instrumental music! It includes all the music from the original recording: Hammer Dulcimer & Guitar-which is taditional tunes from the British Isles, Ireland and America performed on hammered dulcimer, guitar, fiddle and bodhran. Includes: Irish airs by 18th-century Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan: Si Bheag, Si Mhor and Planxty Browne; Irish Washerwoman with new variations; Greensleeves and Fingal's March on fingerstyle guitar; Dill Pickles Rag and The Poppyleaf Hornpipe.And, Hammered Dulcimer Traditions: a lively collection of jigs, reels and hornpipes from Ireland, with Scottish strathspeys, airs by Turlough O'Carolan, French-Canadian tunes, medieval and Renaissance dances and a country rag. Includes: Sailor's Hornpipe (a new variation), Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, Parson's Farewell, Scotch Mist, Shandon Bells and Bridget Cruise by O'Carolan.