Adam Klein was introduced to traditional  Appalachian music at age 17 when he 
first  attended a concert at the  Carter Family Memorial  Music Center in 
Hiltons, Virginia. (The Center  was founded by the late Janette Carter, 
daughter  of  A.P. and Sara Carter, two thirds of the  original Carter 
Family, widely known as the First  Family of Country Music -- but Janette's 
Center  preserves Old-Time and Bluegrass music, not what  the mass media call 
"Country Music.")  In the  year prior to this concert, Adam had built his  
first dulcimers, following instructions from a  book. From age  18 to age 25, 
he headed a  stringband called Zeng, which concertized in his  home county of 
Suffolk, New York, and he  built  over 25 dulcimers as well as banjos, 
autoharps  and other instruments, which he sold and played  in the concerts.  
He and his brother Moondi  produced the album "Me and My Brother" which they  
sold directly to the public. (Moondi, a  founder  of Zeng, went on to form 
several bands elsewhere,  notably Rock Creek and Chesapeake, the latter  
having recorded  three CDs for Sugar Hill  Records.)

In 1985 Adam went away to graduate school and on  to a career in opera, and 
Zeng was no more. But  recently, circumstances have allowed him time and  
opportunity to revisit these other forms of  music, and even once again to 
build instruments.   And most recently, he and Constance Cook formed a  duo 
called Little Blue Heron which performs music  of England,  New England, 
Appalachia and other  traditions. They are now selling their own first  
album, a CD called No Bee Without  the Rose,  directly to the public. Through 
Constance's music  teaching job at Louis F. Angelo Elementary School  in  
Brockton, MA, she and Adam fostered something  of a Bones Movement among the 
students, with over  60 children grades  1 through 6 owning and  playing 
these instruments of ancient ancestry,  made by Adam. Now at Maria Hastings 
School in  Lexington MA, itŐs starting again, although  Hastings seems to be 
more of a jaw harp school.

He currently resides in a small house in the  wilds of New Jersey.  For 
further information  contact Adam  at aldaron@compuserve.com