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"On, to the Next Great Adventure" - Hammered Dulcimer on the Root Glacier, Alaska

"On, to the Next Great Adventure" is a piece that I composed in honor of the great Sam Rizzetta, who built the unique dulcimer I am playing in the video. Many of you already know the story of my field dulcimer, but I'll share it here with some new pieces to add to the narrative. Glaciology and dulcimer are the two dominant pieces of my professional life, but I have never before been able to bring them together so directly. When I went to Antarctica in 2019-2020, my team asked me why I hadn't brought a dulcimer. It hadn't even occurred to me. How, exactly, would I get a dulcimer safely to the deep field, via too many flights and with too much gear to where we would be camping for many weeks on an ice sheet? But it planted the idea, and when I got home I emailed Sam Rizzetta to ask if he could build me a field dulcimer. Sam tackled the problem with enthusiasm and ingenuity, and produced a carbon fiber, open-backed instrument, with almost a 15/14 range on a 12/11 body, and rugged bracing to take it through the rigors of travel. On top of all that, he filled the instrument with a delicate and sweet sound, yet loud enough to hold its own in a jam session or to project across a glacier. And he added some abalone inlay to reflect the colors of a glacier. We lost Sam abruptly in 2021, and my field instrument was the last dulcimer Sam completed. With the obstacles that the pandemic brought, along with a move to a new university and funding challenges, I had not yet had the chance to play it on a glacier. Someday I'll bring it to Antarctica, but this summer I jumped at an opportunity. I had the very deep pleasure of teaching for the International Summer School in Glaciology, a program for graduate students run by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I was a student on this program in 2014, and it was a true privilege to come back to teach. The program takes place in McCarthy, Alaska, in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, just down the road from the town of Kennecott, which sits on the edge of the Kennicott and Root Glaciers. A few of us extended our stay after the program ended, and after bidding farewell to the rest of the students and instructors, we took the shuttle to Kennecott and headed up the trail to the Root Glacier. Just to make the experience even more meaningful, I made an unexpected connection with Sofia Lawrence, who is spending some time in McCarthy working for the Wrangell Mountain Center, which hosts the summer school. Sofia was very intrigued by my dulcimer, because she said her great grandfather used to play and had made a lot of arrangements. I asked her whether those arrangements might be available somewhere and she said they probably were, and then told me her great grandfather's name: Paul Van Arsdale. If you've played hammered dulcimer for a while, I assume you just gasped at that name the way I did when Sofia told me. Paul Van Arsdale was one of the absolute greats. I believe I had the opportunity to meet him at an Upper Potomac dulcimer weekend sometime in the 2000s, although I'm having trouble finding proof of the year. Although Paul passed his dulcimer knowledge on to a great number of people, his grandkids and great grandkids haven't taken it up. Sofia was excited to get to interact with the instrument, and can now count herself as one of only a few players to ever play a hammered dulcimer on a glacier. She is thinking about locating her great grandfather's instruments and trying out some workshops at a QuaranTUNE festival. I hope she does. So on Monday I put Sam Rizzetta's last hammered dulcimer in a backpack case my mom made and hiked three miles along and over the lateral moraine of the Root Glacier with Paul Van Arsdale's great granddaughter, Sofia, our friend Gabby from the Wrangell Mountain Center, and three fantastic students - Neosha, Dia, and Kuba - from the summer school, and set my dulcimer up next to a waterfall. The acoustics were unbeatable and the experience unforgettable. I hope you enjoy the video.