Experienced tutor in Singing in Spring, Peggy offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

She has all the marks of a gifted teacher: inspiring, encouraging, and practical. Peggy has inspired me to reach for new musical heights on my dulcimer. She has given me the hope that my goals are attainable and she weekly gives me practical tools on how to improve.

I have known Peggy Carter for many years as a friend and a mentor. I am an experienced musician and self taught on a few instruments. But when I decided to learn mountain dulcimer I turned to her. I have taken lessons in person and on facetime. What I like is her diversity and experience as a teacher. If you can read tablature or music, she can teach that way. Cant’ read either? Fine she can teach that way. Want to learn the theory behind it all, she knows it. Just want to learn tunes and don’t care about the theory? OK, just the tunes. If you are just beginning and need direction, or know where you want to go and just need some instruction on how to get there she can provide the instruction.
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> She also has an encyclopedic knowledge of folk music (and not just US folk), sacred music and vocal and instrumental music.

I started learning hammered dulcimer from Peggy about 9 months ago. She is a talented musician, a great teacher and fun to be with. I am very happy with the progress I have made under her direction.

I am a 55 year old male who could not read music or play the Hammer Dulcimer . Mrs. Carter has been my weekly Hammer Dulcimer tutor since the fall of 2019. Her technique and style of teaching combines not only learning the instrument, but music theory and how it relates to the dulcimer. Even during the " Stay At Home" orders of the first half of 2020, she made herself available through real time video lessons so as not to interrupt my personal growth with the Hammer Dulcimer. With her teaching background, I would highly recommend her for any age or level of play.

Peggy is an excellent teacher. Peggy has traveled around the U.S. performing mountain and hammered dulcimer. While traveling, she has also given workshops at various events. Peggy has been a great dulcimer teacher. She has written her own dulcimer teaching books so that lessons are based on sequential learning style. She teaches the basics of dulcimer playing adding new technique after what you have been working on is perfected. She teaches you to become an independent dulcimer player by teaching you the placement of the notes on the dulcimer, the correct hand technique for hammered and mountain, reading the staff, and working on the correct way to play rhythms. Peggy also teaches various levels of students. Peggy is patient with new students who have never played an instrument before teaching them the basics so that overtime students can independently read a dulcimer piece on their own. Peggy also works with students who have training in other instruments but want to learn dulcimer. Peggy's ability to add harmony to a melody line and teach this skill is wonderful. I have learned detailed skills on how to harmonize and how to improvize a piece. These skills have helped me be a better piano teacher to my piano students. The skills I have learned from Peggy have helped me to be a better musician in my piano playing as well as my dulcimer playing. Peggy is a wonderful teacher no matter what level you are on. Peggy gives workshops so that you can meet other people who play the dulcimer. You get the opportunity to play the dulcimer with different level performers from beginners to advanced which is a terrific learning experience. Peggy is kind and patient while wanting you to learn and enjoy playing these two great instruments.

I've taken lessons from Peggy for four years. For me, she had been an excellent teacher, She had been patient with my performance anxiety, and has been wonderful in adapting various techniques on the hammered dulcimer to the music I'm interested in playing.