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Cedar Creek Kit

This weekend I ordered a Dulcimer Kit for the "Red Meadow" model from Cedar Creek. I am not very experienced with building instruments, but I...
@Peter W. started 13 years ago - replies: 57

1/2" Walnut Dowel Rod

Does anyone have or can get 1/2" diameter walnut dowel rod? I can't find it here in the UK and I need about 6" of it for a project. I need to...
@Robin Clark started 13 years ago - replies: 8

Shove the Pig's Foot - Galax dulcimer and Fiddle

We had a few friends over for dinner tonight and after a good few bottles of wine were consumedthe instruments came out I've done a lot of...
@Robin Clark started 13 years ago - replies: 14

playing left-handed

Hi all -I'm afraid that this is not the right place to ask this question, but I'm not sure where to ask it.I have a left handed friend who wants to...
@Kay Bolin started 13 years ago - replies: 9

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