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String size and keys

I have a Ron Ewing 3-string Dulcimette. It has a really sweet sound. I am just wondering how to determine the best size strings to use, and what...
@Cindy Stammich started 11 years ago - replies: 13

Newbie 6 string question

Ignorant question. How do most people play their 6 stringers? I have an old Hughes church dulcimer that I played with a noter when I was a kid. It...
@Colleen Hailey started 11 years ago - replies: 6

Davis of Gatlinburg - any information?

Tomorrow I am traveling to see a dulcimer that a dear lady bought "from a Mr. Davis of Gatlinberg about 50 years ago" -- She tells me that she...
@Ellen Rice started 11 years ago - replies: 7

Dulcimer piece in baroque style

This is one of my own pieces written in baroque style. The tombeau was a form developed by lutenists in France in the 17th Century as a musical...
@nick o'sullivan started 11 years ago - replies: 5

Dowland on Dulcimer

Here's my arrangement of John Dowland's song Flow my Tears aka Lachrimae Pavan. Nick...
@nick o'sullivan started 11 years ago - replies: 36

Fernando Sor pieces

http://mountaindulcimer.ning.com/video/allegretto-fingerpicked-mountain-dulcimer
@Guy Babusek started 11 years ago - replies: 1

Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul

OK, some tunes you work on for months. (I've been working on Pig Ankle Rag for over a year and it's still not ready for prime time.) Some tunes...
@Dusty Turtle started 11 years ago - replies: 16

A new Wish You Were Here

A newer version, with the vocals this time. The latest in my hotel stairwell series.
@Tom McDonald started 11 years ago - replies: 3

Oh Shenandoah, February2015 "challenge", note

Since I did a challenge of people to post different versions of Amazing Grace last Sunday, and people participated, decided to do a first Sunday...
@James Phillips started 11 years ago - replies: 64

problem with dulcimer

There is a problem with the dulcimer we built. The second melody makes a very high pitched noise that sounds the a very tinny bell. It does still...
@Noah Aikens started 11 years ago - replies: 4