INTRO: Liz Conway now living in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, used to be one of the northernmost dulcimer players in England, based in the Northumbrian Pennines at Allendale. As mountain dulcimer lead for Nonsuch Dulcimer Club she launched the annual Allendale Spring Fling in 2010 and taught MD at folk festivals and at the Sage Music Centre in Gateshead. Liz played live and recorded with a number of line-ups including The Lucky Bags, Midsummer Blue, and with her partner Terry Conway. We have much to talk about! STEVE: The mountain dulcimer was, and still is, a fairly rare instrument in the North of England. How did you first get interested in playing it? LIZ: Like many others, I saw John Pearse on "Music Room" on ITV in the early '70s. He showed how to make a version of a dulcimer (a stick dulcimer?). On a visit to a friend in Wales I tried the one her boyfriend had made for her. I was playing guitar, not very well at the time and thought, "I think I could get away with