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29 and holding! Happy birthday!

374 and Happy Birthday, glad I found this site!

97. Happy Birthday FOTMD!

60 ! (the number of years we've been married)

JohnH

(sorry to hear that Dusty, is it 'catching' ?)

11--Someone had to ...

Since I have ESP, it would not be appropriate for me to "guess."

I am going to guess 177, since that's the current number of views... how wrong can that be? Thanks for having such a wonderful site for us all to gather, Strumelia!

My guess is 324

My guess is 75.

161 - Happy Birthday!

79 - FOTMD is a really great site. Well done you.

437 - Happy B'Day!

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339. (Actually, it was 339.12, which is the precise volume of that pickle jar in cubic dulcimers ) Happy birthday FOTMD, and thank you Strumelia and all you other stalwarts for making "friends" as important as "dulcimer."

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368, Happy Birthday to you! U dun gud!

169. Good going, Lisa. A very nice site. Happy Birthday to FOTMD

250 - Happy Birthday FOTMD!

142. Happy Birthday FOTMD!

Happy Birthday FOTMD, and a sincere thanks to Lisa for such a great place!

302. Happy Birthday FOTMD and Congratulations Lisa!!!

342 Happy Birthday FOTMD

295. Wow, Strumelia, your baby is growing up.

Guess the secret number and enter

FOTMD's 5th Anniversary

Pickled Dulcimer CONTEST!!

FOTMD is 5 years old!

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Make your GUESS for the number of pickled dulcimers in the giant pickle jar !!!

Please note that the picture above is merely symbolic - so it's no use at all trying to count the dulcimers in the picture.

I will give you a hint though- the answer is a random number I will pick that is more than 10 and less than 500. And it's perfectly ok if some people guess the same number. Before the contest begins, I will tell FOTMD member Bobby Ratliff the secret winning number , for safe keeping. ...and don't try bribing him for the answer! lol!

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Right.

I don't know what it would be called if you were to play a GEC or if it would even sound right.

Just a clarification, an inversion is the notes of a chord in a different order, low to high, eg., CEG is the basic C chord, EGC [1st invr] and GCE [2nd invr] are inversions. Just move the lowest note to the highest.

Ken, me too. That's why I've found it easier to play the double melody strings on the McSpadden. The only problem is that I've gotten used to just one string. To hear the double strings sounds strange. Yep, it was Larry's day

Must have been Larry's day to put the tops on when your dulcimer was made Patty. I find 1/8th inch to be pretty much the norm. If the are wider I find that I tend to split them apart. I have thin fingers.

Ken

"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."

I just measured my 1984 McSpadden's double melody strings and the distance between them is 1/8 inch but I have to say it's closer to being 3 mm. Yes, I checked with both rulers keeping in mind some members here use metric Now I wonder if Larry McSpadden used a metric ruler? Yes, I said Larry because his name is on the label

My pleasure entirely John, lol !!!

Have you finalised the detail of the trip yet (I'm asking 'cos I'm both curious and extremely jealous )

John

John Shaw said:

Thanks for pointing out my lack of numeracy, JohnH! I meant 3/32", of course!

Sorry, John - forgot to reply to the second part of your post. The USA trip is from 23 September to 7 October. We got our work permit-type visas yesterday at the American Embassy in London.

Thanks for pointing out my lack of numeracy, JohnH! I meant 3/32", of course!

Hhmmm! Slightly less than 3/16"..........? getting very near to 1/8" says I , lol !!! Slighty less than 1/8" ? Now that might be 3/32 " , which, should I now use doubled courses, I also would find to be too close together !

How you doing John, have you made your USA trip yet, no change here, we just keep plodding on. Regards to Angela.

John

John K, I think you and I must have been looking at different dulcimers! 1/8" would suit me fine for a double course, but it seems to me that most modern makers put the two strings closer together than that - typically 3/16" or slightly less. My left hand playing style involves a lot of sliding, and I find that if the strings are closer than 1/8" I push them into contact with each other much of the time.

It's all about personal preference, of course, and I know other players who find my preferred 1/8" is too far apart for them because this distance makes them push the strings further apart from each other.

(I should perhaps add that I spend most of my time playing dulcimers with a single-course melody string, so the problem doesn't arise in either direction!)

Hi, Babs!

The usual spacing between the 2 melody strings (in a course) is 1/8". I have seldom seen any variation in that. It seems to be a good spacing, and most builders use it. I think if the strings were set closer together, they might clash with one another in some situations. A little extra space would likely be OK, but you need to allow for it when playing.