Results of the AGM 2020 voting. Our trustees Sally Whytehead, Hilary Davies and Sandra Hudson were unanimously elected, and our reports and accounts were accepted.

Notice of Nonsuch AGM and Postal Votes
Members will have just received by email (or by post in the next couple of days), a notice of our AGM on 24th October at 1:00 pm UK time, via zoom.
You can vote online using our online voting form. Voting closes at 24:00 on 25th October 2020. The attachments are also available in this article.

Duncan Gibbs
Duncan Gibbs is a consummate musician, who has played keyboards in progressive rock and blues bands for 40 years – about the same length of time he has been in thrall to the mountain dulcimer. Now he combines these interests, playing acoustic and electric dulcimer at workshops and festivals, and recreating rock classics – played (more…)

Geoff Reeve-Black
Geoff Reeve-Black is a leading UK dulcimer performer, teacher, workshop leader and collector who runs his own specialist dulcimer business, Revels Music – also an important online resource for dulcimer players across the world. He teaches and performs a wide variety of modern acoustic dulcimer styles at festivals across the UK and Europe. Geoff (more…)

Katie Moritz
2013 National Hammered Dulcimer Champion, Katie Moritz is a musician and teacher hailing from the Chicagoland area in Northern Illinois. She’s been playing music ever since she could remember, starting piano as a very small child and playing the tuba through school. Her taste in music is geared towards more eclectic sounds and it wasn’t till she (more…)

Don Pedi
Don Pedi has been playing the dulcimer since 1968. Self taught, he developed a timeless method of playing mountain musicon the dulcimer that includes all the notes and rhythms of the best old-time fiddlers. Don lives with his wife Jean, on a small farm in the mountains of Madison County in Western North Carolina. The (more…)

Nonsuch Annual Weekend goes ONLINE!
24th – 25th Oct 2020.
Booked tutors are:
Don Pedi (USA) and Geoff Reeve-Black & Duncan Gibbs (UK) – Mountain Dulcimer
Mark Alan Wade (USA) and Katie Moritz (USA) – Hammered Dulcimer
Full details and a booking form will be added to this site soon.

Dulcimer Junction Issue 2
For anyone who enjoys the melodious sound of dulcimers – both hammered and mountain style – Roving Folk, on Phoenix Radio in Halifax, West Yorkshire – in association with the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club – brings you the 2nd edition of the Nonsuch Newsletter Audio Supplement, giving our newsletter an added dimension.

Geoffrey Smith (Mmus)
Hammered Dulcimer Teacher (UK / Online). One to One and Group Classes. A unique approach to learning the hammered dulcimer by one of the most acclaimed hammered dulcimer performers and composers in the world.

Karen Mueller
Karen is a professional performer and instructor from the US, offering online lessons on mountain dulcimer at all levels, as well as autoharp, mandolin, guitar and ukelele.