Dulcitar Music (also known as stick dulcimer & strumstick)

Tunes for The Tall Pines

Music for Nature

Original Folk Tunes

I've accumulated quite a lot of recordings, so here's a simplified list of my recordings which I find the most pleasant to hear. As the title of the playlist describes, each piece features whistles and flutes.

Favorite Toots of Whistles and Flutes

Instruments:
Nick Metcalf tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin, Gold Tone tenor guitar, Gold Tone tenor banjo, shruti box, tingsha bells, ankle bells, tambourine, bongos, cymbal, triangle, egg shaker

Milkweed

A tune written after encountering some ruby-crowned kinglets.

Instruments:
Dante Music telescopic tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple flute

Ruby - Crowned Kinglet

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum

Daffodils Beside The Barn (version 2)

Instruments:
dulcitar, tin whistle, tingsha bells, sleigh bells, triangle, egg shaker

Moon Glowing On The River Flowing

Aquila altera (madrigal ornamentado), Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340-55). STYLUS LUXURIANS. Dir. J. M. Saperas

17 Aquila Altera

Cant de la Sibila, anónimo (s. XII-XV). STYLUS LUXURIANS, Dir. J. M. Saperas

19 Canto De La Sibila

Quan vei l'alauzeta (cançó), Bernard de Ventadour (c.1125-c1180). STYLUS LUXURIANS 2006. Dir J. M Saperas & Kym Amps, Ruth López, Francisco Luengo, Felipe Sánchez, Serguei Sappricheff.

01 Quan Vei L'alauzeta

Cane Toad 2

A tune written on a tin whistle at Mud Pond Bog in Fox State Forest of Hillsborough, New Hampshire during the winter.

Instruments:
Shruti Box, Tin Whistle

Mud Pond Bog

Instruments: Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Bell

No Cry Babies

Werner Heider - Gassenhauer for soprano recorder and snare drum
Jolanta Szlachcic - recorder
live recording

Werner Heider - Gassenhauer /live rec

Bach Harpsichord Concerto in F
Andrzej Zawisza - harpsichord
Michaela Koudelkova - 1st recorder
Jolanta Szlachcic - 2nd recorder

J.S.Bach BWV 1057 Harpsichord Concerto in F

A waltz that was written while sitting on a stone above a river, surrounded by white caterpillars.

Instruments:
High D Killarney Tin Whistle, Low D Kerry Optima Tin Whistle, Jerry Freeman Tin Whistle in the key of A

Waltz Of The White Caterpillar (version 2)

Instruments: Gardner mountain dulcimer, Kerry Optima low D whistle, Burke low G whistle, Killarney high D whistle, glockenspeil

*The photo is of striped maple bark

Striped Maple

I made my friends some homemade vegetable stock as a gift for their wedding, though i felt another gift to accompany the vegetable stock would be nice, so here's an original waltz written for my friends to accompany their vegetable stock. 

Instruments: Killarney D tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin, Jerry Freeman low A tin whistle, ankle bells, tingsha bells

Vegetable Stock Waltz

A tune written while playing a tin whistle as I was wading down a river. Every now and then I'd catch up to a duck, eventually getting fairly close as I continued to wade and whistle, then once I was quite near it, the duck would fly further down the river. This pattern continued for a little while and it seemed I was accidentally slowly chasing the duck. Which is where the name arose from. 

Instruments:
Kentucky mandolin, Killarney D tin whistle

Accidentally Following A Duck Down A River

Instruments:
Doug Tipple flute, Moroccan clay drums, sleigh bells, karatala, guiro, tongue drum

Four Pheasants

A tune written while drinking dandelion tea.

Instruments: Kentucky mandolin, Killarney whistle, Doug Tipple flute, claps, sleigh bells, acoustic guitar, triangle

*The photo is of a leaf with a beard of beard lichen

Dandelion Tea

An old time folk tune.

Instruments:
Hugh Tracy kalimba, Doug Tipple low D flute, frame drum, Moroccan clay drums, egg shaker, glockenspiel

Ducks On The Millpond

A tune that arose as I was on my way to buy celery and cabbage for my soup.

Instruments:
Tenor guitar, Killarney D whistle, Burke low G whistle

Celery & Cabbage

An original tune, titled in appreciation of one of my favorite fungi to encounter and eat. 

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Doug Tipple low D flute, Moroccan clay drums, frame drum, egg shaker, tingsha bells

Black Trumpets

Instruments:
Burke low G whistle, tenor guitar, organ

White Goat

This composition arose while sitting beside a window with my cat and listening to the birds chirp in the morning.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple low D flute, Jerry Freeman low A whistle

Sitting Beside A Cat And Listening To The Chirps Of Birds

Dan Jones: acoustic guitar
Rob Newton: Snapple cap
Zach Schneider: McNally strumstick, Killarney whistle, frame drum, tingsha bells, tambourine

Rob for the Win

A tune written after encountering a vole in a marsh, which ran into a hole beside my foot.

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Killarney tin whistle, tambourine, darbuka, claps, cymbal, Gold Tone tenor guitar

The Vole In The Hole

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Burke tin whistles, sleigh bells, karatala

Yellow - Rumped Warbler

Instruments:
Seagull Merlin dulcitar, Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, tingsha bells, tambourine

Dark - Eyed Junco

Original compositions played upon various acoustic instruments. 

At the moment, the majority of music I record is original folk tunes. Most of these tunes arise whilst out in natural ecosystems or shortly after visiting a natural ecosystem. The titles often reflect an aspect of the ecosystem I had noticed while the tune came about. Lately this is usually a species of bird.

Tin whistles and flutes appear the most often in my recordings; though mandolin, tenor guitar, lyre harp, jaw harp, dulcitar, and a handful of other instruments show up fairly often as well.

And here's some more music I've made along with my friend Dan Jones:
https://soundcloud.com/user-453898279