You can also try Craggy Mountain Music, as they carry strings and other dulcimer accessories. 

Gary and Toni Sager are as helpful as can be. Prussia Valley Instruments or pvdulcimers@bright.net Never gone wrong with their advice, honest desire to get the best value for your $. Plus Gary is a fine "dulcimer doctor"

Archie -- better to use a calculator, like the one at http://www.strothers.com/string_choice.htm  so you KNOW what string you need rather than what someone simply tells you you need.  Sometimes good intentions don't work out too well.

 

You can also try a nearby Guitar Center store.  They sell strings separately by gauge at the parts counter.

If you don't need the brass "ball" on the end of some strings, you can carefully remove it by squeezing it sideways with large pliers.  It will fracture and collapse into 2 or 3 pieces which can then be removed, leaving a plain loop at the end.

Archie, if you are just looking for strings, you don't need a dulcimer store. Dulcimer strings are no different than guitar or mandolin or banjo strings. Steel is steel.  All you need to know is the gauge of the strings you want and whether you need ball or loop ends.  Then you can buy strings from any music store.

 

And the 26" is probably the vibrating string length, meaning the distance from the nut to the bridge, not the total length of the instrument, so your instrument and the other one are probably about the same size.

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Archie, this is not a dulcimer store, but they have some parts and strings you can use.  Excellent, fast service and low prices:

www.cbgitty.com

Have you already looked at Folkcraft, Musikits, McSpadden, etc.?