Bell As Dulcimer Player
The hammered dulcimer is well documented as having been played in Ireland in the eighteenth century and is even mentioned by James Joyce as an instrument he heard being played in the street. Derek Bell introduced a small cimbalom (a hammered dulcimer from Central and Eastern Europe), which he christened tiompan after the medieval Irish instrument. Derek Bell was a great admirer of the music of Nikolai Karlovich Medtner and was the co-founder with Bass/Baritone Hugh Sheehan of the first British Medtner Society which gave a series of successful concerts of Medtner's music in the 1970s long before Medtner's music was recognized as the works of genius it is today.
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