Lucky dulcimer

Many of you know that I have been mostly playing my Modern Mountain Dulcimer and my Goncala Alves Simmerman at festivals and workshops the last couple of years and they are really lovely dulcimers and I enjoy playing them. But Betty Schneider asked me a few months ago, "Don't you ever play your Blue Lion anymore?" Her comment prompted me to pull it out from underneath the bed an begin playing it again. I'd forgotten how pretty its tone rings. Then I packed it in the RV to go to Tennessee and played it in the Uncle Dave Macon Days contest and won. Actually, its the very same dulcimer I won first place in the Florida championships in 2003. Must be my lucky dulcimer. :) Of course, I had the lucky entry number too--number 13! :)