Amazing Hammered Dulcimer Musician - Joshua Messick
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- While visiting one of my favorite music stores (Song of the Wood in Black Mountain, NC) I met the master hammered dulcimer musician Joshua Messick. He was very kind to demonstrate the sound of the instrument, and share his amazing technique in a less-than-ideal, sometimes noisy environment. At the end he provides a brief interview. Many thanks to Joshua for allowing me to put him on the spot - and for delivering so amazingly. Please visit the links below to Joshua's various web locations and online store:
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SPECIAL NOTE: Joshua has included the fully developed version of this song in his latest album called "Woodland Dance" - buy the CD or mp3 CD collection here: amzn.to/2bCoAVL
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Wow the people behind him I can't believe they just ignored him like that, amazing I think I found a new instrument I'll never get to learn but love
there old AF what do you expect .. they're in there own little world 24/7
I had enough trouble attempting my 6 string guitar!!!
hearing aid battery is low. what are you saying sonny?
The instrument sounds just like a cross between piano, harp and a guitar. Absolutely amazing.
I absolutely adore the pitch bending with that physical chorus effect!!
Is the instrument you're looking for a harpsichord? 😂
@@UA-cam-handles-are-stupid That too.
It's very well known in Europe, actually. Here is a hammered dulcimer duel for you: ua-cam.com/video/6XTFcJWQCUg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=EleniFilippa
Plus koto and sitar.
In response to the comments about the talking -- This video was an impromptu interview and performance in a small business. It was never scheduled. The store was kind enough to allow it to happen during their peak business hours. The talking was from employees and customers who were conducing business in person and on the phone. They were kind to allow us to conduct the interview and performance.
sir Joshua, could you tell me what brand is this ? where could i buy one
What song were you playing? It’s beautiful!
Still.....the guy is amazing. And they can't be bothered. It's sad if nothing else.
The music was great!!! I love the sound of the hammered dulcimer. The 1st person that I heard play was the late Rich Mullins. Maybe I will get 1 some day and learn to play.
In this video, I am playing a hammered dulcimer. While similar, it is different than the santoor, cimbalom, khim, etc. The instrument names should not be used interchangeably, since they are different instruments. Analogy: the mandolin, ukulele, and bouzouki are similar... but they are also very different instruments :-)
Great to have you stop by and clarify these point for us Joshua. So proud of you for your awesome achievements in musical composition and performance!
That was mesmerizing! it reminds me of Pat Metheny´s 42 string pikasso guitar, he should definetely do something with you.
@@tonyleeglenn They are all enhanced versions of the Persian Santoor from what info I've seen. I get a Santoor this Christmas (lucky me). A hammered dulcimer is too expensive and I like the Santoor especially when played by Sina Bathaie. I recommend checking him out.
This (your) video is a cool intro for new comers.
Joshua, great job. Is that a custom dulcimer or was it made by the company in Oklahoma?
I just found this... don't know why I didn't see it when you first posted it. Josh was my student (back in Houston) from the time he was 9 until he left for college and later won the National Hammer Dulcimer Championship. I knew he had a lot of promise from the very first lesson. His parents were very faithful to bring him to lessons, and he did his part in practicing. I don't think they had to bribe him to practice... he had a passion for the dulcimer from the very beginning. He is also a very good pianist. I can't tell you how proud I am of the player he has become, but even more... the MAN he is. He is really humble and respectful, in spite of his notable accomplishments.
You should be very proud Peggy. You're right, Joshua is a very genuine and nice guy, as well as a superb musician. It's been great working with him. Soon I'm helping him shoot some new video that will be featured on his UA-cam page - some very interesting and experimental material he's working on with an Asheville-area percussionist. I'll send you a link when it's posted. Tony
We are so grateful for music teachers like yourself. ❤💕
Peggy Carter for President, 2020
I didn't know Agent Peggy Carter worked as a music instructor after leaving SHIELD.
@@midilyfestyle It would be nice to have Agent Peggy Carter as president. To bad you have to US Natural born to be president. She is after all, British. 😄
Man you could compose a whole movie with just that instrument and it would be amazing!!!
I'd love to do that! :)
There is a movie out now, "Mary and the Witch's Flower", featuring Joshua Meesick on the hammered dulcimer. It is a Japanese animated film. I have not seen the film yet, however, the music featured on Joshua's website is beautiful.
@@richardcutchin4159 WOOOOOT? I was wondering about what instrument that was in the OST, and read that it was a hammered dulcimer. And he played for Muramatsu in the orchestra? Almost every time I find someone referring to Ghibli/Ponoc composers, it's in the least expected places. Or at least not that expected.
And if you haven't seen the movie yet, I strongly reccomend that you do that soon. It's amazing!
There's one in the first fight scene of Gangs of New York
I think it’s used in a lot of assassins creed scores- like Jesper Kyd’s ones
2:28 for the music
thanks :)
Thank you :)
How could you be in that store and not be intrigued by the sound of that instrument and the way it's being played?? Geez! On a side note id love to hear some good Jazz (ballads) played on one of these.
Check out jazz fusion using hammered dulcimer by the band Snarky Puppy.
Awesome instrument (and even more awesome performance)! Can't believe I've spent 27 years of my life without knowing this exists...
Heck, I spent 40 and a half!
The Cello is my favorite instrument. The Hammered Dulcimer is my second. I have not seen a player of Joshua's caliber before. Absolutely brilliant.
Your support of this artist is truly refreshing! Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for this incredible talent!
Stumbled across this video, immediately rushed to the Play Music store and bought Desire for Departure. :) Thank you for sharing this!
+Sean Levesque Glad to be able to introduce you to an awesome musician Sean!
Thank you, Sean! I appreciate you.
Oh, my gosh ~ this brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much for posting, I now have a new addiction! He IS "freakin' brilliant!" I don't know how anyone within earshot could not stop what they're doing to go listen in awe!
Thank you, Teri!
I know, right!!? Those two women were just casually browsing books then left!! Humans are so hard to figure out sometimes. :)
I like his technique....he will use his fingers and strum or pick the individual strings. He doesn't confine himself to using the little hammers only. I wonder if one can also strike the strings with one's finger and create a sound that way...much like certain rock guitarists (Van Halen?) who'll percuss their electric guitar strings with their fingers to get a certain sound.
I just realized that a version of Tristram from Diablo would sound amazing on this! This instrument is incredible.
sorry 2 years passed but lol a part of the «Rouge» theme (and maybe some others) of D2 was made with hammered dulcimer. Here's the Matt Uelmen's quote from liner notes to D2 OST for the «Rouge» track: «Standing in your own shadow can be a truly strange experience. Although I feel like we more than lived up to the pressure to improve upon the original Diablo, some elements were particularly sticky. The opening town theme was a good example of this.
Try as I might, it was impossible to get too far from the trusty 12-string. Though the first half of this track, which dates back to September 1998, works well, I did not feel like this tune came together until January 2000. It was then when I found the last toy (of many) which I bought in the making of this soundtrack - the hammered dulcimer. The ancient sound of this ancestor of the piano finally gave me the truly medieval effect that I had been seeking for years. The instrument itself has a pretty-but-tough texture which worked well with the image of the Rogues and their strange mixture of sadness and bloodthirstiness.
If this piece has any problems, they are probably due to my excess of fascination with texture, at the occassional expense of melody and rhythm. It was too much fun to contrast the acoustic 12-string with its electric counterpart in the first half and then to mix it up with the mandolin and the dulcimer in the newer half. As far as that slide part goes, I could not resist taking the Joe Walsh shtick to its logical extreme after all of the "Hotel California" comments I heard from Diablo players. I am a weak man...
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IDK what did u mean by «version of Tristram», b-cause there's no such track in D1 OST, i guess its the «Town» theme - the ancestor of of the «Rouge» D2 theme.
... «Rouge» and «Sanctuary» are my favourite tracks of D2.
@@artemzaytsev1106 thanks for the trivia, the author of that tristam song also had a really big twitter beef with one youtuber who documented him having a mental breakdown over politics and treatning to skin he alive to the tristam theme. Kind of a random thing to happen
First became interested in this instrument when I looked up the soundtrack for Dishonored. I must say, it seems to have molded the ambient feel of the whole series, and you can see how right here.
Hi Tony,
Thanks so much for posting this!
Joshua and I have been planning on doing an album together for a while now and I've been so wrapped up in other projects....ARGHHH!!!
He's a special musician Brian. I'd love to hear what you and Joshua could cook up. Thanks for watching. I'm going to subscribe to your channel. TLG
It would be amazing if you could do a cover of Ancient Stones, by Jeremy Soule!
or oblivion games music
The folks behind are obviously in the wrong shop... if you had any interest in music whatsoever you'd turn and listen, plus there's the respect issue grrrrr.....
great sound and amazing talent! 👏👏
100% with.. I am so annoyed with them.. So rude. :(
Laurie Loveridge b
I know, right, grrrr, the ignorant swine - I would just be standing, listening in a rapture - ironic that these two grain fed bozos are discussing the purchase of music, and they wouldn't know real music if it sat on their face.
Yeah those people couldn't be arsed to hear that amazing sound behind them.
To be fair to them, they had just gone to the record shop to buy some CDs or whatever, it's a shop open to the public, not a private performace/recording space. Personally I would have turned and watched out of interest, but they shouldn't be forced to.
By the way, you're a good interviewer!
***** Thanks Teri. Appreciate the compliment.
Wow... tuning that thing must be a beast! Sounds great though. Saw my first Hammered Dulcimer in a group called the Bee Eaters. Three you g and super talented musicians in strings.
What is the name of this piece?
Joshua Messick - Woodland Dance
Joshua Messick - Woodland Dance
Omg I'm shook that's beautiful. I've been trying to convince my parents to let me get a dulcimer for years now.
Excuse me sir, could you turn that down a bit please, we're trying to buy something for our Neecees' party and it's a little distracting, thank you so much.
Josh played a little of John McCutcheon's "Step By Step" while McCutcheon was being discussed! Dampers help a lot with extended techniques like those strums.
Awesome piano-guitar-harp thing!
Loving this blokes accent! We got BOTH types of music down here - Country AND Western!
I see what u did there haha
I love the sound of this instrument. I bought years ago a CD from Constance Demby and since this time I´m looking for other interpeters who are playing it - Joshua is awesome ;-)
Thank you, glad you enjoy it!
His Dulcimer skills are very impressive but can he DANCE?
3:32 my own time stamp, I love this part so much
Pity that woman in the background isn't more sensitive to a recorded performance.
His Dulcimer skills are very impressive but can he DANCE?
Alas, I cannot. But, hopefully the music inspires you to! Best, Joshua
+Joshua Messick (Hammered Dulcimer) amazing skill I will take a look at your channel. I would love to see a composition of yours as a part of a score in some movies. if not the entire score.
Daniel Herrera Thanks, Daniel! :-)
I tell Joshua that all the time. Anyone know a film-maker who needs a score?
What is the name of this? I've checked his amazon music store and can't find it.
Joshua Messick - Woodland Dance
The people talking inbackground are anoying =/
epicdeuce They're not just annoying, they're being disrespectful.
Absolutley beautiful!!❤❤
He made it now. His music will be heavily featured in "Mary and the Witch's Flower" the debut film of Studio "Ponoc" founded by a former Studio Ghibli higher up. SO he's going places. I saw him perform 2 pieces last night here in Florida and it's truely amazing. He also finally achieved his dream of playing with a full Orchestra at the same time and it was quite the experience. This gentleman has a bright future.
Thank you very much, I just love this instrument it has such a wonderful resonance. Looking forward to hearing more of your music!
very cool video!!
Thanks for watching, Dimitri!
Amazing sounds. I will be going to his channel.
So it only takes two spoons to make music. This is a new instrument for me.
Watching the shoppers in the background, I'm reminded of something Joseph Campbell once quoted: "standing on a whale, fishing for minnows..."
Here these ladies have an excellent live musician performing 5 feet away, and yet their attention is on some packaged music...
Your Accent is great! :D
...ok just listened.....WOW. That's the best Contemporary Hammered Dulcimer I have heard...
Wow! to two things. First wow! to the great dulcimer playing. Second wow! to the ignoramuses who left their ears at the door of the shop. They have no place in a music shop. Who are they?
Keep it up Joshua!
YOU: This guy is a very good musician.
ME: Okay, I'm ready.
MESSICK: plays
ME: ...O.O I was not ready. That's amazing.
الجمال مصدره داخل الانسان، يعنى جوانيات الانسان ،
الإحساس الخاص جدًا والذى لا تحده ضوابط الملموسات، لكن فى نفس الوقت تساعدك الطبيعة الجميلة والبيئة المتوافقة على اكتشاف دواخلك، وهى بداية لتطابق بعض أحاسيسك ببعض خصائص الكون المحيط، هذا التبادل المشترك يفتح آفاقك ويشيد فى دواخلك كونا اخر متميزا غير الذي نشأت عليه،
لذلك عندما مثل هؤلاء المتميزين وجمال مشاعرهم وروعة مواهبهم ، انهم يكادوا يصبحون جزءا من قوانين الطبيعة الجميلة من حيث التلقي والعطاء،
وفر لنفسك البيئة الطبيعية والمحيط المتوازن ، تتكشف أمامك آفاق الكون المدسوسة.
🙏🏽💫🌹🌺🌼🙏🏽
Philistines behind, no culture just talking, how rude.
Excellent video. I've watched this a hundred times now and I feel obligated now to thank you for this.
Holy WOW 😯 !!!
It’s a little bit like bridging the harpsichord and the piano (going from plucking strings to hammering), only completely freehand and well, raw. In the best way imaginable.
Found one of Hans Zimmer's inspirations 🔥
very talented..Shame Windham Hill label is gone to showcase this stuff..I also recommend Malcolm Dalglish: Jogging The Memory (Solo Hammer Dulcimer) on Windham Hill Records.
I am familiar with Santoor.. But this hammered Dulcimer takes the cake.. It's too gorgeous...
And the musician is brilliant.
T F S
This sounds like Santoor....a north indian classical string instrument. Great sound y Joshua. Thanks for posting
No f-ing way, Did he just say Ashville? I seriously before I seen this video just booked a trip to Ashville for tomorrow and I never heard of this place before it just looks like a great place to relax. Crazinessx100
It's a baby grand piano soundboard and strings without the piano😁 I used to have my sister hold the piano sustain pedal while I got under the lid and plucked the strings with different things- same principle here, plus here you hold the piano hammer equivalent in your hand😁 I didn't know you could bend the pitch shop early, wow, never thought to try! Very cool, first one I've seen!
This is beautiful. There is one for sale for $250 and I am considering buying it. The sounds are so tranquil. Thank you for the video.
ok... understand the people talking.. after all it is a shop though if I were in that situation and there were a live performer especially one of this caliber I would just watch in amazement. That being said between the camera making me feel like I am watching blair witchcraft movie and the stupid annotations.. I only could get through about 1/2 of this before finding a much better version elsewhere. Try... just try and hold a steady hand whilst holding a camera..
I will give this vid props for pointing this amazing artist out. Now go take a photography course.
brilliant, what he says about it being a percussion instrument, and thinks it should be placed in that context. Bullseye.
ok I lied.. Josua Messick (how do you spell that again Tony?) was way too good for me to stop listening. Learned some interesting things about this instrument. You get another attaboy!! :-)
WOW! thank you so much for posting this! :VERY COOL! & your intro was fine not too long at all ;p GREAT VIDEO! & MUSIC :)
The music is gorgeous! The woman's incessant talking in the background is a real distraction, unfortunately.
I borrowed a hammered dulcimer years ago and the people i got it from let me keep it. I just recently finally set it up, and have barely used the hammers because plucking just feels easier to find my way around at first. It's really cool to see the different techniques he uses, i didnt realize it could be so versatile!
Supposedly the piano was developed by the hammer-dulcimer, and I can certainly see how. They have a very similar sound, but are still both unique in their own ways.
Would love to learn to play. Have NO instructors anywhere near me. I’ve checked.
The only thing this performance lacked was a roll of duct tape for the womanin the background who wouldn't stop talking.
Wish that woman would stop yacking! Ugh. Beautiful music and I love his techniques
the indian Hammered Dulcimer which is called santoor is the most beautiful Hammered Dulcimer in the entire world
The voices spoilt his talent and our enjoyment. Thank you ladies.
amazing. shame bout the talking... you wouldn't get that in England. too polite over here.
But does it Djent?
o0FreeRunner0o theres a fellow called Botanist who does some very nice hammered dulcimer metal
Djenting is so burnt D: it's time to TURN OR BURN! 🔥
Wow!!!! amazing.. Im off to iTunes to download some of his music. You do bump into some interesting people. Top video Tony
Is there a name to this piece? It's stunning!
Joshua Messick - Woodland Dance
I want one now 😅 a song covered by Ghost called "I Believe" brought me here.
Pity theres a yabbering sqaw in the background .... was she talking to deaf people ?
Ime looking for information on a gentleman by the last name of Lea who handcrafted Dulcimers .. Wondering if you have ever come across any of his creations
Wow! This "salterio" is my favorite! grand pa` was teaching me to play it when I was young and always wanted to get one and never did, I`ll get one some day SOON, thnx for sharing!
not sure if the description link was broken for anyone else but here is Joshua's channel ua-cam.com/channels/m1CW7trk9r7XMuR-lxs3JA.html
How people can be oblivious to such beautiful music, is beyond me.
The talkative lady behind seems to be totally unaware of the awe-inspiring, transcendent, performance happening on the spur of the moment.
calm down you old fart
Jump to 2:29
I was introduced to the hammered dulcimer in the music of the late Rich Mullins gorgeous.
What model of hammered dulcimer is this? Is there any special tuning etc, it sounds very warm and mellow
tried my comment earlier. heard this instrument, played by a uw music student in seatle in the atrium in pioneer square. yup.
I own one of these now. I came here to show someone what I was talking about. 😊
If you liked this, you might also like Santoor. Take a look see here: ua-cam.com/video/5X0y_YN3Vb8/v-deo.html
I need the name of the play. Its reminds me a bit to fallout 4.....
That's great. Sounds like something you'd hear in World of Warcraft or in some sword and sorcery type movie.
Dynamic. Haunting. Medieval. Mysterious.
Bravo!
This man has the touch ! He covered all kinds of world music in that one performance
Have you discovered Dizzi yet? She's amazing.
What a talented musician. A real treat to listen to him. Thanks.
Have you ever been in Hungary? Many gipsy musicians play this instrument virtuously
Yeah. My first time hearing a dulcimer in person was at last year's renaissance faire. It sounded really cool.
I grow up alongside this incredible instrument
You and Joshua are too kind. I wanted to smack that woman across her head and shhhh her. You don't go running your big mouth when a maestro is playing. Some people...
Yes - I know what you mean.
the dream of my life... learn to play this instrument!! I absolutely adore the sound...
*****
Unfortunetely, they don't sell this amazing instrument in Brazil. :'(
Lorena Piacente Nazário Check out James Jones Instruments; he'll probably make & send one to you.
Is the twelve string in the background an Epiphone?
Is that a custom dulcimer or made by that company in Oklahoma?
Oh shoot me before I am 40 please! How could that old woman miss this beautiful sound at her presence and not be attracted towards it and not quiet down!
answered your own question ....
OLD AF
It’s sad how the people in the store are so ignorant that they don’t recognize a master at work.
The obliviousness of the two people behind him is incredible..
Went to this very store yesterday and I got to fiddle around on that very instrument! Amazing to randomly stumble upon this video! Makes me really want to get one and learn!
If you ever visit again, I just might be there! I sometimes stop by ;-)