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Do you still have this instrument? I was looking for an example ever since Hank Levin told me about selling the Musical Traditions name to someone in Idaho. I don't think there can be very many of these. Does it have the "Musical Traditions" stamp on the tail?
Hi Flint.
Just spotted this. Definitely walnut: grain is right and it's by far the commonest wood used in the older 60s - 80s dulcimers. Looks like the original tuners too - lovely condition.
You'll see posts on Everything Dulcimer that suggest the MT dulcimers were made at the outset by a guy called Hank Levin who owned a shop in NYC. Not sure where it went from there or who ran the operation later.
Lucky man!
Geoff
It's such a lovely dulcimer!
Oh, sorry, Donald. I thought you changed it over. My mistake. I was thinking red cherry myself before I posted the question. This thing hung on a wall in South Carolina for several years and the top, which was the picture I posted, was a lot lighter than the bottom.Thanks for commenting there and here, so double thanks.