Thank you! Any future such posts will go there. 

I wonder if in the vein of “animal adoption/rescue,” there is a “dulcimer adoption/rescue” forum here for legacy instruments that are likely to become wall hangers unless someone conserves/restores them? I did not see one but might have missed it.

 

Well there are a lot of discussions in the "Care and Maintenance Group" on this site, including some threads on rescuing and repairing old damaged instruments.

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Thank you for the video and the book titles, Wally. What a treat! When did you meet his wife?

- Madeleine

Paul Pyle is certainly part of dulcimer history, if only for his dulcimer books.

• How to Tune and Play the Dulcimer (1973).
• To Build a Dulcimer: A Simplified, Economical Demonstration in the Construction, Tuning and Playing of the Dulcimer (1976).  (self published, 14 pages)
• The Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer Book (1976).
  Paul Pyle Video on Souder & Friends

No forum or group like that here, that I know of.  I think it's up to individuals to rescue such dulcimers.

Yep, yet another Paul Pyle dulcimer on ShopGoodwill (search “dulcimer” - the site’s search feature is very basic).

Putting this here in the hope that one of you legacy-minded folk might make it sing again!

I wonder if in the vein of “animal adoption/rescue,” there is a “dulcimer adoption/rescue” forum here for legacy instruments that are likely to become wall hangers unless someone conserves/restores them? I did not see one but might have missed it. 

- Madeleine