Please note: this website is in the process of updating (October-December 2006). Please return frequently for new information.
| Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton--Our performing duo Maggi Smith-Dalton Phoenix Mandolins other folks I perform with frequently: The Orchestra at Indian Hill New England Mandolin Ensemble Seth Austen and Beverly Woods Keith Hampton Brave Records My Publishers:
Friends of the Albany Carillon
Some other friends and colleagues:
Andy Vores Dalit Warshaw Thomas A. Gregg Poor Richard's Penny |
| World music Links: Irish Music Center - Boston College
A great set of World Music and Ethnomusicology links American Music Links: The Society for American Music
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Jim Dalton plays and endorses the Phoenix Neoclassical Mandolin
Music Composition Links:
Music Theory Links:
Instrument Links:
Miscellaneous:
Salem, Massachusetts
our hometown -- you want witches? we got witches!
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Jim's book, Mandolin for Beginners, has been published by Alfred Publishing (and National Guitar Workshop)
It's available online and in retail stores both nationally and internationally.
You can learn everything from how to hold/ tune a mandolin, how read tablature and strum -- to reading music, tremolo techniques, improvising.
It's full of interesting tunes and practical advice. There's a CD in it, so you can hear as well as read all the good stuff in the book.
48 pages Book & CD
copyright 1997-2006 Jim & Maggi Dalton