Correct, Ken!  Bernd is an extremely talented luthier … and renaissance man!

I'll answer for Jerry as I'm sure it is Bernd Krause. Here is his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KrauseInstruments/ He makes some very nice instruments.

Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."

@jerry-posner - do you mean Bernard Krause the bioacoustic soundscape musician/artist?

I have a Bernd Krause dulcimer with the 1.5 fret.  I play (my version) of excerpts from Orff’s Carmina Burana on it. I’m also learning a few new ukulele tunes on my Magic Fluke Concert Flea.

At our Tuesday night TTAD Zoom group I usually play a dulcimer I made based on the C.N. Prichard pattern. It is walnut and butternut. With our local group I usually play my all walnut Folkcraft FSH.

Ken

"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."

My McCafferty!  Beautiful cherry with mother of pearl inlay that sounds as good as it looks! The fret markers are things like butterflies, flowers, and hummingbirds, etc.

I've been grabbing this older Blue Lion lots lately:

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That's a funny looking dulcimer, @Nate!

@richard-streib, that's a wonderfully meaningful dulcimer.  Even though Dan made the dulcimer recently, in a sense the dulcimer has been in your family for generations.

I have a number of traditional style dulcimores. While I do enjoy them all and play them all on a rotating basis, the one I reach for the most  at this time is a replication of a 1917 James Edward Thomas dulcimore built for Balis Ritchie. This one was made by Dan Cox using walnut wood on the back which came from the Ohio farm where I was born and raised until age 12. That wood was cut on the farm by either my great grandfather or grandfather. And I am on the north side of 70 to give an idea of the age of that walnut.

Sadly, I've been spreading myself too thin lately and I haven't been getting as much practice as I like to on a few different instruments. I have a Magnus accordion sitting on my couch that I like to play while I'm unwinding when I get off work. It's basically a vintage plastic children's toy accordion with way fewer buttons than a real one. It's a lot of fun to mess around with.

Percussion stuff. I'm playing percussion in a small concert band, and sometimes play spoons with our dulcimer group.

Whether it be a mountain dulcimer or some other musical instrument, tell us-  what is your current favorite instrument that you pick up these days... and why?  Tell us why it's been 'calling to you'. Feel free to attach a picture!