I use a pick that looks like the yellow one and really like it for playing some things. It is a Herdim teardrop. All I can find on line says it's the small size. I am ordering some through Amazon to see if they are the same size as the ones I am using. The Folkcraft dulcimer site also has them.
Credit card plastic is a mite too stiff and plastic container lids a bit too limber. I am continuing to look.
I made a pick like the elongated Schilling, cut from an old credit card.
...looks like butternut to me......
DAN
www.dulcimore.com
Karen and I both keep coming back to John Stinson's #2 because there are so many cool things to do with the chords. We usually keep the same song structure each time, but we make subtle voicing and chord changes pretty much every single time that we play it. Bing Futch taught me that tune a few years ago in Palestine, TX. I'm really glad that he did.
Stinson's (or Stenson's) #2 is a great tune and fun to play. Do you play it in the key of D or in A as most fiddlers do? After years of playing it D ~ I learned it from a dulcimer player ~ I have mostly switched to playing it in A, since that's what local fiddlers want it in and I'm, of course, happy to oblige.
Search on"Jean Schilling vintage guitar picks", you'll find them sold here and there at pick collecting sites, on Ebay, etc.
D'Andrea -- dandreausa.com -- made those teardrop Jean Schilling picks and one shaped like a dulcimer; but no longer apparently.
Try Herdim picks...Folkcraft sells a small (?) one shaped like yours (I believe they used to sell larger ones of the same style). Good luck!
Steven
I use an elongated teardop shaped pick. Several internet searches have not revealed anything like I prefer.
A picture is attached. The tourtise shell appearing one came with my first dulcimer and has Jean Schilling's signature on it. Any help would be appreciated as to source to procure something like those in the picture.
Sounds from the wording like the reply came from "offshore" somewhere, like the phonecalls I sometimes get!
This is the reply I received today.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
Ken,
Thank you for reaching out to us. Dulcimer is an important of our business and your suggestions have been forwarded to our management team for consideration.
Regards,
David Legere
Mel Bay Publications
Gee there's just so many that are fun to play. Sugar Hill is fun if you try to do it in both 4/4 and then 3/4 time.
Just do the "scratch n sniff" test! Slip a piece if coarse sandpaper inside where that deer is, and sand around in underside. If is does not smell of 'root beer', it's not sassafras!
I don't disagree, but I say it's impossible to tell from a photo, even if it were a professional one. I work sassafras albidum nearly every day, it's one of the staples in my shop. It's heavy, only slightly lighter than black cherry (31 lbs per cubic foot, to 35 for cherry). The pore structure, as usual, is the key to positive identification, and if you're a science type person you'll like to see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141635903000771
If you want, send me your address and I'll mail you a little scrap of S. albidum, so you can compare it yourself.
I did the same thing as Dusty, however I asked if they still had them in a digital format and if they would be willing to place them on another website if they were not going to be available at Mel Bay anymore. If I receive a reply, I will post it here as well.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
Thanks for doing that Dusty! 
I just sent a message to Mel Bay via the website. I just asked where the Dulcimer Sessions were. I'll post here when I get a response.
I just went to Cedar Creek's website, and they list sassafras as an available soundboard wood.
Could be that. Does it seem like dense, heavy wood or is it lighter? Sassafras is relatively soft and light.
Apparently so. Maybe someone could contact MelBay about it- they likely have copies they'd be willing to give us so we could post them here?
Currently Sarasponda is my go to (quick song) for warming up and it is so happy!
( heating it a few minutes with your hair dryer before giving it a tap with a hammer and a wooden dowel)
Thanks ken, worked on the dulcimer today. After two tries of heat & tapping I had the bridge out & with a bit sanding, the action is lowered. Stopping at this point, nice & low & no buzzing. Plays so much easier now & my thumb thanks you.
You're right, Ken, I would've loved it! She seems to have been one of those people was was just herself, no pretense. (Almeda's telling of how her little sister's death effected her was most moving.) Her singing cut through to the bone in a good way.
Dana, I am very happy you are enjoying the instrument. :) (I told you it was a good one!)
Brian
Hey Robin, I wish you could have experienced Almeda live. You would have loved it. Getting to know her just a little bit was a wonderful and expanding experience for an upper middle class kid from the big city.
I got to public wi-fi and watched this today-- and I'm so glad I was able to do so! Some of the stylistic features of Mrs Riddle's singing were common in small "holiness" and rural churches, I think, even in my childhood years of the '60's. And there were handkerchief wavers there, too. :)
For a minute I thought you were talking about our bell choir rehearsal, but we did not have one last night. Glad that you are happy with the dulcimer.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
What a great feeling when your new instrument is even nicer than you hoped!
I did hear that bell tone you mention, and wondered about it. It made my cats jump. 
Hahaha! That made me laugh out loud!
And I learned that song from your videos, John! Thanks so much! It is indeed a fun one to play; the rhythmic possibilities alone are remarkable.
Thank YOU! There's always a trail behind the path a song takes to people. My introduction from Bing went something like "You should learn this tune...we're playing it on the set Monday." This was on the Friday night before lol.
What a great feeling when your new instrument is even nicer than you hoped!
I did hear that bell tone you mention, and wondered about it. It made my cats jump.
And I learned that song from your videos, John! Thanks so much! It is indeed a fun one to play; the rhythmic possibilities alone are remarkable.
Like a river glorious is a favorite of mine
Say it ain't so!
