John McCutcheon

American master

by Sandor Slomovits

posted 4/1/2004

John McCutcheon seems never to have met an instrument he didn't like. He is highly skilled on Autoharp, banjo, fiddle, guitar, piano, and mountain dulcimer, plus a handful of other folk instruments. He is an acknowledged master of the hammered dulcimer. And anyone who has seen him do "Hambone," using his hands to slap out complex rhythms on his

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