Woke up to clouds and warmth, up to 27C.
As the forecast was 70% chance of thunderstorms we decided to stay put today. Took a break from travel planning and tried writing and programming some phone apps, not as hard as I first thought. Lyn spent the morning trying to sew, but there were so many trailers and people coming and going that her nose got the better of her and she spent most of the time trying to figure out who was who and who belonged to which trailer.
After lunch we had a short sharp shower and that was the extent of our “thunderstorms”. Following this we went for our daily walk around the site to dump the garbage and pickup the mail. On the way back we dropped into the clubhouse where there was a musical event in progress. Actually it was a private function but they welcomed guests. It was a get together of dulcimer players with a couple of violins and an instrument I had never seen before. We listened to the music for about 30 minutes, it had quite a distinctive sound, quite good for folk music.
There were three types of dulcimer there, two I have found pictures of
Mountain Dulcimer
Hammered Dulcimer
The Mountain Dulcimer is played horizontally across the lap with a pick, and the Hammered Dulcimer is on a table or trestle and is played using two small “hammers” on the wires.
The third type of dulcimer was Banjo Dulcimer or Dulcijo which looked like the Mountain Dulcimer but the sound box area was replaced with a banjo type sound box.
The unidentified instrument is best described as the soundbox of a double bass (slightly smaller) with no neck and strings. The sound was produced by a series of wooden pieces of different lengths fixed below the sound hole being “twanged” (best wording I can think of). Think of a wooden ruler half on a desk and pulling down and releasing the end to make a noise. I know the description is lousy, but if any one knows what the instrument is please let me know. Google was NOT my friend.