Looks to be in great shape! Nice find!

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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

Nice find. Enjoy playing it.

The condition is so good for an almost fifty-year-old instrument!  Happy strumming! 

Hope some of you find this an interesting story...

I picked this Dulcimer up for £75 (about $100) in Hobgoblin which is a folk music store in London the other day...

They told me the previous owner had purchased it in 1977 at a craft fair and then put it in a cupboard unplayed for almost 50 years until just recently when they took it to the shop to sell.

It was built by Bill Lucy and Roy Woolgrove in the UK in the mid-70s and I guess the strings had been on it since then!! So… it got some new ones today from Newtone Strings (also UK made!). It actually now sounds pretty good - have tried it in both DAA and DAD and it holds a tune well and more importantly seems to be well in-tune! :-)

Thanks to Geoff of the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club for some background info on Lucy and Woolgrove.

Have any of you also come across these makers?