David Schnaufer

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PO Box 891, Hendersonville TN 37077-0891 - Tuesday, January 16, 2007, Dear Mr. Boyd, I am very happy to add my name to recommending the late David Schnaufer for the Folklife Heritage Award. David opened the eyes and ears of people all over the world to another side of music in Tennessee often overlooked and overshadowed by the corporate side of the Nashville music business. I was fortunate to work with David on many projects at my recording studio, English Valley Music, in the woods of Hendersonville, Tennessee, starting in 1995 when Cyndi Lauper, a dulcimer player herself, flew down from New York in search of David. We tracked him down to a class at Belmont and then to his apartment, which was like a shrine to his main love, the "Delcimore." All kinds of shapes and sizes of this peculiar American instrument adorned the walls and floors of his humble abode. Cyndi and I became fascinated with the Tennessee Music box and especially when we heard the tales, so eloquently told, of its origins. We invited him out to the studio to record with us for Cyndi's "Sisters of Avalon" album. That turned into one of those special magical nights along with one of the coldest! Not only did we record Cyndi's beautiful song "Fearless" live, with Cyndi strumming mountain dulcimer and David bowing the Tennessee Music Box but David regaled us with stories of the Melungeons and so the dance tune we were working on became a "Melungeon stomp." The Ballad of Cleo and Joe (as it was called) became

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Dulcimer Player Deluxe

Appalachian Picking Society

Dulcimer Sessions

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Delcimore

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All Songs Considered 2

Delcimore Revisited

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All Songs Considered, Vol. 2

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A Smoky Mountain Christmas

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Masters Of The Mountain Dulcimer

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Line Dance Fever 5

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Smoky Mountain Christmas [Jive]

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Masters Of The Mountain Dulcimer Play Music for Christmas

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