Best Stephen Seifert Podcasts (2025)

Is Bb warmer than C, or do you just need counseling? Butch Ross joins Dan and Steve for a discussion about tuning down and an odd Hungarian scale. Here’s a link to the Bb tuned dulcimer: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219135462201848&set=a.1577962213394&type=3&theaterBy Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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90 Russell Cook - Try, Try Again 1:20:54

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Russell Cook Joins Dan and Steve to talk about hammered dulcimer innovation.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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89 The 1-2-4 Stretch and Mid-side Review 58:11

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Maybe you don't need a shorter instrument. Instead, try this technique for shortening long stretches like the 1-2-4. Also, Steve responds to Dan's test of the mid-side recording technique.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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88 Capos and Stereo Recording 56:13

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Dan and Steve talk about life a bit, missed opportunities and sleeping with podcasts before deep diving into the recording technique called mid-side. The podcast even includes an audio demonstration of how this technique creates a stereo field with no worries about phase cancellation. After exhausting that topic, Steve gets geeky about capos.…

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87 Scaling Improv Mountain 1:12:39

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Vrooom, vrooooom. The Dulcimer Geeks have restarted their engines.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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86 Ewe Knew This Day Would Come 1:09:59

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85 Hello (again) 1:11:28

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Dan and Steve pick up where they left off.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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84 Quite Good, Thanks 54:07

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Dan and Aaron in England with special guest Amanda Boyd who joins us to talk about collaborating of songs from the Cecil Sharp collection.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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83 Coaching HopScotch 1:59:01

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In this episode we start out by talking about coaching versus teaching. Seifert shows up, we meander as usual, and then Aaron opens a bottle of scotch. Things pretty much go downhill from there. Welcome to our first two hour podcast. We hope you survive.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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82 The American, The Virtuoso, and the Just 1:14:40

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Alexa joins the Aaron, Stephen, and Dan as the geek on about dulcimer-tech and copyrights.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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81 Modes for the Masses 1:09:32

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Why modes matter.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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80 Reboot 1:26:59

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Dan, Stephen, and Aaron talk about getting caught up while the radar is turned off.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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79 Every Show a Focus Group 1:42:23

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Dan Landrum and Aaron O'Rourke discuss their show at Sarasota, Fl in a venue called Fogertyville. Topics include treating each show as an experiment and audiences as focus groups.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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78 Rebels for a Day 1:26:56

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Aaron and Steve blab without Dan. When the cats away...By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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77 Activism and Not Playing Like You 1:09:11

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How do you respond when a student says, "I don't want to play like you?" And, where does activism fit into the dulcimer community?By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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76 After Concert Conversation 39:29

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This was recorded in a room full of people playing music, PLUS the main recording device failed. Still, the conversation with Bing Futch, Lorinda Jones, David Beede, Guy George, and Dan Landrum was fun, so we decided to go ahead and share it.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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75 Let's write something ethereal 49:30

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Dan and Aaron live create an ethereal composition for an upcoming performance with dancers.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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74 Teaching it Possible 49:02

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Aaron O'Rourke, Dan Landrum, Stephen Seifert, Erin Mae-Lewis, Amber Rogers-Clark, Sarah Morgan, and Silent Shad Clark all sit down to talk about teaching and learning at the Black Mountain Dulcimer Festival.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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73 Does this diet make my dulcimer look big? 1:01:15

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Steve and Aaron get emotional and skinny.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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72 Bleeps, Babas, and Banjammers 1:18:00

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Seifert, Landrum, and O'Rourke, keep it weird, have to use the bleep button for the first time, and still love dulcimers.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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71 Instruments in Hand 1:08:39

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Dan, Steve, and Aaron show up with instruments and share their current projects.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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70 Punch to the Gut 1:02:54

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David Beede joins Aaron and Dan to talk about similarities and differences in learning hammered vs mountain dulcimer.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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69 Chroma Chameleons 1:28:01

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Stephen Seifert and Erin Mae host a chromatic dulcimer workshop.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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68 Taking a Dive 1:06:31

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Dan and Aaron in the dog days of summer cleaning roofs and playing festivals.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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67 Dulcimist Supremism 1:12:00

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Did the mountain dulcimer just get associated with neo-nazis on a nationally syndicated radio program. Why yes, it did. (This is an updated version. The first upload had a glitch in the last 8 minutes.)By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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66 Fish and Plants 1:01:17

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Steve and Dan get serious about marketing and the fish are back, but now with plants.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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65 Practice with Dan and Aaron 1:01:27

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Dan and Aaron invite you to a real practice session.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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64 Making Things Up with Barrett 32:31

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My grandson, Barrett, joins me and Aaron to talk about the art of making things up.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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63 Partners for Life 1:04:34

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Meet our significant others so you can know for whom it is you feel sorry.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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62 Goodbye Fish 1:09:29

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Steve moves on and returns his fish, Dan flies back from Glen Rose and Aaron puts a nickel under the 14th fret.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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61 Getting Things Done With The m7b5 1:17:56

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Dan and Steve talk about productivity practices until they get distracted by the most versatile chord of them al, the m7b5.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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60 Sweep Picking Progress 49:05

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Aaron gets his repaired dulcimer back and it takes him a few days to get back on the horse.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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59 Found Objects 1:07:21

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Aaron and Dan talk with Butch Ross about his latest recording project?By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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58 Off to Winfield 1:58:50

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Aaron and Steve ramble for just under two hours about almost everything.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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57 Nail and Flesh 54:48

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Aaron teaches Dan how to do his nails, but only on the right hand. This is about getting great tone when fingerpicking your instrument.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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56 I Swear, This Gets Interesting 43:29

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Dan and Aaron explore timbre, texture, and general thwackiness in hammering methodology.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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55 Truffles, Scotch, or Cheese 1:00:19

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Recorded on St. Patrick's Day, 2017. We focus on playing Irish music and other obsessions.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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54 Pondering Civility 1:00:44

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C'mon. Would a little civility hurt us?By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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53 Listener Questions 1:08:44

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Steve, Dan, and Aaron answer listener questions.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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52 Time for New Songs 1:10:34

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Steve is pumped to learn some new songs, and probably manic.By Dan Landrum, Stephen Seifert, and Aaron O'Rourke

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51 Pythagoras Has Feelings, Too 1:19:49

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Aaron and Steve get geeky about chromatics, before a "which was first" discussion derails into a giant social construct.By Dan Landrum, Aaron O'Rourke, and Stephen Seifert

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50 Getting To Know You 1:09:39

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Dan Landrum and Aaron O'Rourke on the road and learning how struggle can be turned into strength.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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49 Aspirations (not resolutions) for 2017 1:00:50

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As it turns out, none of the Geeks like resolutions, but Stephen Seifert, Aaron O'Rourke, and Dan Landrum all for aspirations as musicians for the coming year.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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48 Dancing the 1.5 Step 1:11:55

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Deep geekery about the 1.5 fret and speculation about Aaron's new babies.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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47 Steve's Idea 1:05:59

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Let's see who did their homework, taking Steve's tune idea from last week and creating a song.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast

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46 Tune Crafting and Song Naming 51:58

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Let's write a song together and name it after a mineral and some form of water, something catchy like Dolomite Droplets or Fulgarite Flow.By Dulcimer Geek Podcast