Wall space is something I've never used for storing instruments I play as I don't have much clear interior wall space due to the design of my house. I have only one dulcimer hanging on a wall, my very first that has too long a VSL.

Have you seen pictures of my quilt stand turned dulcimer stand?? It holds eight instruments easily in a relatively small foot print. I also have several individual stands that hold one or more instruments. Those are scattered all over the place. But I really think I don't have any more floor space for individual stands.

Dana R. McCall said:

Heeehehee, Yeah, right Dana, that's just what I was thinking last August when I got a student dulcimer from Harpmaker for traveling.

Well, he had the sweetest cherry teardrop at the Heartland Festival in Elizabethtown in November. Yep, she came home with me. I love the different sounds you can get using the same woods and shape and cherry is my favorite. So I have enough dulcimers at 14, but does that mean I'll never get another?????? Hmmm?

Dana R. McCall said:

Yes, I'm sure it was meant for noter playing, Strumelia.

This is the Kurt Simmerman Spanish Curly cedar front with figured mahogany on the back. :)My dulcimers do not really have names--I just call them by maker and or wood.For some unexplainable reason I think of the Blue Lion dulcimer with the rose inlay, the lady with the checkered past, and the swan dulcimer as female, and all the others as male except for the Galax dulcimer which has a name "LiL Tater" and it looks like a big sweet potato--and has the personality of a basset hound. :) Bob Lewis said:

1. Kurt Simmerman concert goncala alves2. Kurt Simmerman concert Spanish curly cedar and figured mahogany3. Kurt Simmerman concert sassafras and walnut4. Blue Lion rosewood and red cedar5. Blue Lion 6 string Robert Force6. Ben Seymour cherry Galax7. Unidentified with carved swan head8. Bob Cox (John Huron model) sassafras and cherry9. Ron Ewing dulcimette walnut and vintage wine vat10 The lady with the checkered past (Ron Cook--walnut and maple checkerboard--carved lady's head)11. McSpadden cherry and spruceon order12. Bill Taylor courting dulcimer TBA13. Paul Conrad Timbre TBAI will probably try to keep this right at thirteen as that is a lucky and positive number of dulcimers to have in one household to maintain instrument stability in the universe. If I sell one--I would have to cut back to 8 and if I buy a new one--I'd have to add on until I had 21. I try to maintain stability and harmony in my instrument numbers as transitions tend to be chaotic. :)