Ted Yoder and the Hammered Dulcimer performance

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ah

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that song is everybody wants to rule the

world by tears for fears

this here is a hammer dulcimer a persian

instrument

known in america in folk circles and

mountain music

i first heard and saw the hammered

dulcimer in 1986 by an artist named rich

mullins

it took forever to find one because you

couldn’t just walk into your local

guitar center

and pick one out but in 97

my wife bought me one with some wedding

gift money

it took a while to get acclimated to

such an instrument

and uh to begin composing with it like i

wanted to

in 2016 facebook came out with something

called facebook live

and so in august of that year i went

live for the first time to a whopping

six people to a total of 47 views

so when my wife asked me the next week

if i wanted to go live again i was like

well

it wasn’t that many people who cared

about it so anyway i drummed up the

courage

went live again and this time i played

rule the world for the first time

all the way through no edits mistakes

and all

at the next morning we had

31 000 views

that was pretty substantial in itself

but a big weekend later and we had over

54 million views

today it stands at over 120

million views now that could have been

enough and the story could have ended

there

but among those millions of views

were none other than kurt smith and

jamie wollam of tears for fears

we contacted each other between email

and twitter

and kurt gave my wife and i backstage

passes

to come see the band in indianapolis the

next month

again the story could have ended there

and it would have been a story to tell

for the ages

but the next day kurt and jamie came up

to

our house to meet the family and to do

some music

so kurt sat on our swing and

sang rule the world jamie pulled out an

ottoman that he could use as a drum

i got the hammer dulcimer and we did

this wonderful acoustic version of

rule the world for millions more to

enjoy

in every venture and

work of art there’s moments of

doubt and moments of courage there’s

feast and famine

but we keep doing what we do

and showing up day after day because we

hope beyond

hope that someday someone will fall in

love with what we make

today i hope that you find peace and joy

in my music

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do

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you