Do you have a pic of the one you’re interested in?
I was looking for a new MD and while searching discovered one I never heard of but worth sharing. Not trying to promote or play any games...just a regular corn lovin Iowa boy playing MD in the Midwest here. I was impressed with the sound before looks mindset and they are priced right too!! Lol. Search for em on the tube for sound samples and specs. Website is newtraditionsdulcimers.com
Hearts of the Dulcimer Podcast - Episode 38
3 Stories and 3 Tunes from Heidi Muller and Bob Webb
Winter’s Turning, My Barista, and Sacred Ground. What do they have in common? They were all written by singer songwriter and dulcimer player Heidi Muller. Heidi and her husband Bob Webb tell us the stories behind each of these three tunes.
Hearts of the Dulcimer Podcast can be found on most podcast apps.
Here's the link to Hearts of the Dulcimer on iTunes: http://bit.ly/hotdpodcast
Don't use a podcast app or iTunes? You can listen to all the podcast episodes directly on our website: http://dulcimuse.com/podcast
We also have a resource page for every episode, where you can find photos, videos, and song lists. Here's the resource page for this episode: http://dulcimuse.com/podcast/resource/038.html
Thanks for listening! :-)
Thanks Steve!
A truly great podcast. Thanks for all your hard work. I love it!
The site seems to be working well, Stephen. I'm hoping someone posts something from Hawaii so my listings will no longer be the most westerly on the map.
That's cool, Stephen. 
A truly great podcast. Thanks for all your hard work. I love it!
Ken, your lyre's are very very beautiful....and made to replicate really the REAL OLD ONES. wow. And....Lorraine, From the bottom note of the Old world Lyre....what note do you start with. "G"? and so when I go on up to the highest string...I have to skip the leading note, "B" and C is my highest string. Interesting that the olden days they were NOT sung with, but just played. hoooo boy. sooooooooo much to learn and so little time to learn it. Thanks so very much. aloha, irene
Steve,
Mark did reply, Randy Downing forwarded my info to him
thanks again,
UPDATE: The site is going well. Organizers, clubs, and individuals are signing up. I recently sent the following out to many event organizers. Please spread the word!
I made a website for listing and searching mountain and hammered dulcimer events: http://dulcimerevents.com . It's easy to submit and edit your events. You can search present and past events, see everything on a map, and even search for events near you. Dulcimer clubs and jams, it even allows recurring events so you can add your upcoming meetings. Visit http://dulcimerevents.com and register to create a free account. Your events will appear after an administrator approves them. If you have any questions or need any help, please let me know.
Thanks,
Stephen Seifert
stephen@stephenseifert.com
I'm attaching an image of the map. It looks pretty cool!
Sorry. I've never heard of him, but his dulcimers look very nice. Enjoy playing them.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
Lorraine and Ken, you have made some very nice instruments. I'm sure yours are nice as well Irene. I just can't see them at the moment. It is good that you play them for people so that they can get an idea of how music was made a long time ago.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
Thanks Steve,
I had checked out Tindle's web site and tried contacting him. I wonder why there is no mention of any of his dulcimers he made? Do you have any idea about how many he made or what would be a fair price to ask for one?
I do play them -- in the old style -- not singing along with the music. Lyres, at least the Anglo-Saxon lyres that I build, come from a tradition that pre-dates singing along with music.
The Cologne Lyre is GABcde, and the Oberflacht is tuned DEFABc
Irene,, yes they were a bit challenging ..esp putting the strings on the one..i just finished both of them this month...i tne the small one to c and the lg to d. One thing to do on the olde is to play melody and shen u run out of notes go to the lower note and play it there...so if you are playing the high e but the need to play the higher f and g go to the lower f and g and play them..it sounds pretty fine..i too play older songs on it
Ken, those are great..do u plsy them and how do you tune them..what noes
I bought two dulcimers from George Hendrickson in about 1976 when we were both in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area. I haven't touched them for decades until now but starting to and am wondering if others are out there and what became of him. He worked some area festivals and contributed an article to the Dulcimer Players News, but haven't been able to find anything else.
Interesting to see other maker's lyres. Here are two lyres I made: The smaller one, with the mango top, is a replica of the Cologne Lyre from an 8th century archeological site near that city. The larger is a replica of the Oberflacht 84 from a 7th century German archaeological site, with carved kolrose decorations from a Pictish standing stone.
I have made both of these when they first came out. I've had a lot of fun with the old World Lyre as I introduce folks to all my instruments as "and this is a Lyre and I'm telling you the truth".....yeah, I know, bad joke. I love using this lyre to play very old melodies and it fits to more minor then major tunes. I chord and sing with it. I always wish for just one more higher string. The Lynda Lyre has a LOT MORE STINGS...and I can play a lot of tunes on this. I just sit by the fire and hold it with my left hand play with the right.....I like the thick strings in the lower end. I like it that I've chosen to use the nylon (you can choose to have metal strings if you like)....I sapose it would be much more expensive to use gut strings and find ways to sharpen and change keys quickly, but I don't see much need for that. I have other instruments that I can change the keys fast. These are BOTH great instruments. Unique sound. Lots to add your own touch of painting or wood burnings. I painted tulips on the larger Lyre, and used some ground turquoise on the smaller old world lyre. Both of these are a little challenging to make....but worth the trouble. For those that might want to tune the larger lyre to the key of D to play with dulcimers....just sharpen the C's and F's in the tunings. easy. That would be really fun to try.
Made the old world 10 strings lyre and the 22 string lynda lyre from kits from musicmakets.
My husband and I live in an old masonic temple building. We have our desks side-by-side in the dining room. It's not a cozy corner, but we are pretty comfortable here. 
Giving the photo tutorial a try 
...here's my "pretty music room" off of the living room, closed with pocket doors, kept simple with the least amount of clutter and bookshelf with musical history, theory, FAKE books etc. A laptop computer (with some music apps) and printer/scanner. On the left, my little "video recording booth" in my basement music room. A folding screen, PVC pipe suspending a camera overhead, a clamp light, a cork strip to pin sheets of music, a some storage pockets for picks, tuners, water, pens, READING GLASSES. I've since encased it in quilts and throw rugs as an experiment after seeing Robin's music room.
Yay! Glad it's a little clearer now. It's not the most intuitive function to follow.
THANK YOU..I was attempting that but only saw it offer up photos I already had posted on this forum, to embed...carried it out further per your instructions and included resize instructions....works perfectly. So appreciate!
Look at Robin and Strumelia. Their photos appear full-size in the message, not a little postage stamp to be downloaded like ours.
To do that, when you are writing your post you click on the little icon that looks like a film strip ("embed local media")- that icon is to the left of the Smiley button in the text editor window.
Once in that window, select the SIZE you want the image to be in the left side dropdown menu. XL or XXL works well. Then you click the " Select an image to upload and insert" button to the right. (To insert an image this way, the image must be on your computer somewhere, not just on the internet someplace). When you click that 'Select' button, it'll take you to where you can browse to the image on your computer that you want to embed in the post. Here's a bit more description for this method:
https://fotmd.com/forums/forum/site-questions-how-do-i/20103/attaching-adding-a-picture-into-my-posts
However- When you see the thumbnail and text link for an image, it's when folks have used the "Attach file" button easily seen at bottom of text editor window. Try clicking right on the thumbnail pic itself to open it right there to see it full size. Clicking on the text link will simply download it to your computer.
I had to DOWNLOAD your photo fully, then open it into a PAINT program to see it, then resize it.
Janene, if you click on the TEXT link, it downloads the picture to your computer. If you click on the thumbnail of the image itself, it should open it right there in a window for you to see full size. Does it not behave the same way for you? You should not have to download the image if you click directly on the little picture.
Charles, your playing spot is so neat, in the sense of being tidy. OK, I confess. I cleaned my nook and got rid of a lot of the clutter. Posting a picture was a good incentive to clean the area. The little guy sitting on my desk is a limberjack my father got for me at a flea market over 30 years ago. I made him dance when some of us played at a hospital recently. No one had ever seen one before and they really loved it.
As for posting the picture, it took me forever and I was surprised when it worked. I can't tell you what I did because I tried so many ways until it worked. Nina (AKA Dulcinina)
Friends, I used EMBED LOCAL MEDIA and re-sized the photo-- I'm using an old iPad mini running Safari. I'm not sure what caused that to work for me and not for anyone else who tried the EMBED route.
Does anyone know anything about a tindle dulcimer, I can't find out anything on line. The group I play with just received one of his and I was hoping to find out some info.
Charles, you did the same thing I did. I had to DOWNLOAD your photo fully, then open it into a PAINT program to see it, then resize it. Look at Robin and Strumelia. Their photos appear full-size in the message, not a little postage stamp to be downloaded like ours.
Janene, I put the photo in by clicking on "attach file" and it shows photos on your desktop, I clicked on the one I wanted. I'm working with a Mac but I guess it's similar on a PC.
Dulcinina, another person who plays on a stool! I love the "little guy" sitting on a shelf of your desk area.
Charles, that is a very elegant-looking creative area. I use a folding wooden screen in my music room too (not pretty like yours) as a recording "booth". I'll try to show how I do it. I just draped fabric all around it, inspired by Robin's set up..haven't tried it yet though.
The people whose pictures are inserted in the message...I don't know how to do that. I used to. Everyone else, you have to download the picture, and then open it with an app on your PC to see it. Because we are using ATTACH FILE maybe? I tried EMBED LOCAL MEDIA and it didn't work. What are we doing "wrong"?
