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North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

That's a great picture,  Thanks Jan!

Thanks to Dusty and Strumelia as well

North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

  Thanks to all members especially Ken and Jan for your help

North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

Just a quick update for anyone interested. I made a temporary bridge out of an old cigar box. The dulcimer sounds BEAUTIFUL and well worth the effort. Here is the size that seems to work really well for future reference.

North Country Dulcimers 38 inch hourglass dulcimer floating bridge

Height 1 and 1/4 inch height 

Bottom Gap 1 and 1/2 inch 

I will update as I go

North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

Thanks Susie. I might try to make my own bridge maybe even alter a cello or upright base bridge. I will let you know..

North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

That looks like that could be the one Skip.

Thank you.

North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

Thanks Ken I really appreciate your help

North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

Thanks for the advice I am new to forums so I am having a little bit of an issue posting pics and replying to messages with my phone.Sorry.

updated by @buzz: 09/07/22 03:35:02PM

North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement

Instruments- discuss specific features, luthiers, instrument problems & questions

Hello everyone,

 First off I am a newby to this forum and dulcimers and if I am doing this post wrong please let me know. I ran across my first dulcimer at a thrift store and was amazed by the instrument as I have been playing guitar for many years and even played violin back in school for a few years. Anyway the dulcimer I was lucky to find is an hourglass 38 inch 4 string made by North Country Dulcimers built in 1985 according to the tag inside. My problem is that it is missing the bridge..It is a beautiful instrument and I really can't wait to give it a try. My question is where would I find a bridge and where the placement of the bridge should go. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Buzz