Group Discussions

How to Ensure Straight Fretboards

I am a hobby dulcimer builder. I have been trying to resaw and otherwise prep my own wood for last few builds. I am having a hard time getting my...
@mark willingham started 11 years ago - replies: 5

Summer Festivals...starting this weekend!

2015 Festivals: Dulcimer Workshops Dulcimers will be to the fore at many of the major UK acoustic festivals this year. There will be...
@Geoff Black started 11 years ago - replies: 3

Playing in a different octave

As a beginner 3 years ago April 1st, I began playing in DAd, and didn't change tuning for quite sometime. When I finally discovered CGC, it was a...
@Terry Wilson started 11 years ago - replies: 10

Bluegrass dulcimer - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Earl Scruggs classic, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." To me, for something to be bluegrass, you need a banjo. So I'm playing the banjo part on...
@Sam Edelston started 11 years ago - replies: 7

Dulcimentary: the history of the scheitholt and the scheitholt Ben Seymour made for me

Here is my latest dulcimentary is on the history of the scheitholt and the scheitholt Ben Seymour made for me...
@David Bennett started 11 years ago - replies: 4

See my Friends

Messing about (as you do) I found my self playing the first 3 notes of an old Kinks song see my friends and then remembered it had an Indian...
@Steve Battarbee started 11 years ago - replies: 1

Wild Mountain Thyme / Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go

This is about the most confusing song I've had to deal with. It is clearly copyrighted by Francis McPeake (in the 1950s) through an English folk...
@William Mann started 11 years ago - replies: 7

Videos on FOTMD lead to gig!

After posting three videos on FOTMD and telling our choir director about them, she approached me and said: "Why don't you some of these in one of...
@John W. McKinstry started 11 years ago - replies: 1

A hollow possum board?

I was wondering if anyone has made a possum board out of an old hollow Luan Mahogany door? I suppose even a dulcimer has been made from one too?...
@John W. McKinstry started 11 years ago - replies: 10

what fingers to use on right (picking) hand

Well, I've been finger picking for a couple of years - not enough to show off, but some. I've been using my thumb on the melody string and pointer...
@Kay Bolin started 11 years ago - replies: 7