RIP Gillian

[peter.coombe]

I have just heard that the great hammer dulcimer maker Gillian Alcock has passed. She was one of my greatest and longest friends, an inspiration when I first started making mandolins. I have one of her dulcimers and it is one very fine instrument. Gillian has been battling MS for many years, and what she described as "a bugger of a disease" got her in the end. Cardiac arrest is apparently one thing that is of high risk for MS suffferers. RIP Gillian, we had so much fun playing music together.

[peter.coombe]

Here she is at the 2011 National Folk Festival, before she retired.

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[simso]

RIP

[J.F. Custom]

Sad news Peter. Thanks for passing it on.

I only met Gillian the once, but she and her instruments were well known and respected in Australia.

One of only a handful of Hammered Dulcimer (and related Cymbalom family) makers in this country, as far as I know.

RIP Gillian. Sorry for the loss.

Regards,

Jeremy.

[demonx]

R.I.P.