Old Dawg

Welcome Old Dawg to Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer. Glad you joined. This is a great place with lots of information. Look around and get a feel of what all is here. Please ask if you have questions. We are here to help each other.

Hi Old Dawg, and welcome to the wonderful world of the Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer.  It's a good place to come, spend some time, learn about the dulcimer, and to meet some good people.

Ben

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Again- welcome!  

Old Dawg, thanks for shrinking the size of those photos. You will get a better response to you question if move it into one of the forums and start a new thread. My suggestion is to place in the Instruments - Discuss Specific Features, etc. Click on the plus sign in the upper right hand corner to start your new thread. You should be able to copy and paste what you put on my home page and use it to start the new thread.

John Stockard was a good builder of mountain dulcimers. You dulcimer looks to be in excellent condition. I have no idea how many dulcimers he made. I know he marketed a dulcimer stand that allowed one to play the dulcimer while standing up. It was quite popular. Also, I don't know how desirable his instruments are now. Any value I would put on one his instruments would just be a guess on my part.

Ken

"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."

Welcome to FOTMD, Old Dawg. You will find of lot of things happening in the dulcimer world by reading through the forums here. Post some photos of your dulcimer and folks here will try to give you information about it. Restoring concert grand pianos sounds challenging. I look forward to your participation here.

Ken

"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."