Chromatic fret spacing on drone strings
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Chromatic fret spacing on drone strings
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Here's a tune played on a dulcimer with diatonic/chromatic fretboard
Listen to Pastorale Michel Corrette by nickosullivan #np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/nickosullivan/pastorale-michel-corrette
Hi Babs, Yes you're right there's 3 melody strings tuned d d G and two drones tuned D G. The fretboard layout is like some modern epinette des vosges and a slightly different layout is found on the Hungarian citra. The setup allows you to play melody-drone, melody-harmony-drone and partial chords over drone and of course the melody strings can be played without drones. I use it mainly for baroque music, as in the soundclip. Hope this help. Nick
(BTW Bob the diatonic melody string has the full complement of diatonic frets)
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Here's a few from my dulcimers. The top one is from my first dulcimer, which was made in Scotland in the mid 1980s. Next one down is from a David Beede "eedy beedy" dulcimer and the last two from my Ken Bloom 5 string 
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I think it's great that people play in noter style because it may not be as easy as it looks!!Noter style, fingerpicking, flatpicking, strumming etc. are just techniques and each has it's place in the wonderful variety of music that's played on the dulcimer.From my own perspective concentrating on one technique only would be too limiting but I do for the most part fingerpick.Nick