I’m Murray Laing, a Scottish mountain dulcimer player and guitarist. My multiple sclerosis has finally made playing in public a bit of a challenge but I’m still writing songs and you might like to hear them. TH-cam looks like a way of playing for friends, old and new, from the comfort of my Cave.
I’m passionate about the therapeutic benefits of playing music. Try it if you don’t already. It’s probably why I’m still able to create new neural pathways after 50 years!
When I lost my wife in 2020, I immersed myself in learning to play the mountain dulcimer. I even found a nearly-just-intonated instrument so I could try to play the Scottish fiddle tune ‘Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of his Second Wife’. You can find it in the Links section below.


Visit this channel to find videos of me playing (sometimes with guitarist Jimmy Hawthorn) on all sorts of guitars, dulcimers and occasional banjo.