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My First Dulcimer

Hello everyone, Ive built many acoustic instruments in the past but am just about to attempt my first dulcimer. So far Im having great difficulty...
@Iain James Craig started 13 years ago - replies: 21

a mic, a pickup, and a di box -- questions from an electro-phobe

When I was sixteen I played "Honkey Tonk Woman" on an electric guitar to impress a girl. It didn't work. She liked the bass player. That was the...
@Dusty Turtle started 13 years ago - replies: 9

Inis Oírr (Inisheer)

Hi all! In researching the lyrics to this tune, I have come to discover that it is not an ancient Irish air at all. It was composed by an...
@Guy Babusek started 13 years ago - replies: 8

How to make curly maple "pop"

I read a trick a while back about how to make the pattern in curly (and birdseye) maple really pop when you are finishing it. Something about...
@Ed Gaunt started 13 years ago - replies: 9

Help... When the bass string doesn't sound right!

I'm tring so hard to wrap my old brain around the different modes. Somedays I have that AH HA moment and the next day I seem to be confused all...
@Sharon Hall started 13 years ago - replies: 10

Why do you like to play Chromatic Mountain Dulcimer?

What made you try it? What makes you keep playing this kind of dulcimer? If you are just exploring the idea, what looks attractive and what...
@Steve Eulberg started 13 years ago - replies: 12

Gathering in Fairmont

Mountaineer Dulcimer Club MeetingWhen: Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10:00AM 3:00PMWhere: Central Methodist Church, Fairmont, WVDonation:...
@Rob N Lackey started 13 years ago - replies: 4

Modifing another builder's dulcimer

Has anyone ever modified another makers dulcimer so that it can be played? Here's my problem. I've got this small dulcimer that uses zither...
@folkfan started 13 years ago - replies: 9

Popsicle stick

Recently I have become somewhat serious about playing noter/drone style. Over the past year I have collected a few noters, received in the bags of...
@Terry Wilson started 13 years ago - replies: 27

Crossing The Bar

I want to play Crossing the Bar. The words come from Tennyson's famous poem. ..... not the choir version, but more like the arrangement...
@Marsha Elliott started 13 years ago - replies: 2