The Twelve Tune Songbooks
by Margaret Wright
Folk Notes Music Books Online

Margaret's 1st Dulcimer '94Margaret Wright has been playing mountain dulcimer since 1994, is a teacher of music and mountain dulcimer, and is the mother of Lloyd Wright, first place winner in the Mountain Dulcimer National Championships, Winfield Kansas, 2000.  She has also had several of her mounatin dulcimer students place very well in regional championships, as well as at the national championships.

In 1997, Gary Hamilton suggested that Margaret tab out 12 simple songs for the newly formed Davy Crockett Dulcimer Society.  The resulting 'Twelve Tune Song Book' starts with 'Bile Them Cabbage' and includes eleven more easy to learn tunes.  It was suggested that the new players learn the tunes in that book before going to their first jam session.

Lynn McSpadden, Margaret Wright with her first dulcimer, '94.
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Then Margaret started writing more tabs.  The tablature for the mountain dulcimer became very popular and now she is up to her eleventh 'Twelve Tune Song Book'.  There is now a CD that comes with each 'Twelve Tune Song Book'. The CD's have recordings of every song in the book they accompany.

The tablature for each song is on a separate sheet so they can be put into sleeves and arranged in a binder alphabetically, by genre, or grouped as they came, so the accompanying CDs can be referenced quickly.

The tuning for the songs in the first book is 'DAD', the rest of the series is in 'DAD' and 'DGD' tunings. DGD tuning can be tuned into quickly and easily from 'DAD' with little fear of breaking strings, as when retuning back and forth between 'DAD' and 'DAA'.  A capo is repuired for some songs.

Unsolicited Testimonials about the Twelve Tune Songbooks

  - 'her work is wonderful. She has such a variety of songs in her books, and songs that you may have been searching for and were unable to find elsewhere'
- 'The tab is very easy to read & understand. Also, the cd's consist of only one dulcimer and are played at a moderate speed'

Twelve Tune Song Books each come in their own envelope with an accompanying CD containing all twelve tunes.

We are selling out of the Twelve Tune songbooks.  All we have left are listed below:

The 9th Twelve Tune Song Book    Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Campmeetin' on the 4th of July, Did You Ever See the Devil Uncle Joe, General Lee, Granny Will Your Dog Bite, Hog Eye Man, Kitchen Girl, Margaret's Waltz, Old Liza Jane, Old Virginia, Sally Goodin, Life's Railway to Heaven

Twelve Tune SongBook 9 - $11.00


The 12th Twelve Tune Song Book   Blackberry Blossom, Cherokee Shuffle, The Glendy Burk, Little Billy Wilson, Old Molly Hare, The Old Yeller Dog went Trottin Through the Meetinghouse,  Roscoe, Say Darlin Say, Spring Creek Gal, Stomped Tail Dog, Sugar Hill, Tempie
Twelve Tune SongBook 12 - $11.00


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