Impressive collection, Kendra!

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Dusty T., Northern California
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As a musician, you have to keep one foot back in the past and one foot forward into the future.
-- Dizzy Gillespie

I think you found a very nice way to display them. They really fit well together on the walls. Good job. I wish I had the wall space to do something like that. Thanks for sharing the photo of your collection.

Ken

"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."

Been working on a new way to display my beautiful traditional mountain dulcimer collection. Bob and I installed slatwall and it is perfect! I could not get my whole collection on the walls (I have several more)…but the slatwall will allow me to easily rearrange them, or add something new.  I am keeping the dulcimers that I regularly tour with and teach with in their “ready to go” bags. 

My oldest dulcimer belonged to my grandmother, made in 1894. All the others have a very special meaning to me and are not just “collected.” I am personally connected to each and every dulcimer I have, and I play most of them regularly so they continue to sing their beautiful songs. 

The mountain dulcimer is a part of my soul and I have been playing the dulcimer now for six decades. I will continue to preserve the traditional way of playing and teach others about the history and the importance of this wonderful Appalachian instrument until the day I die.