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It arrived!!!

After having a small address issue on the box, my dulcimer arrived safe and sound from Dave Lynch today. It is beautiful!!! I called to let him...
@jasemones started 12 years ago - replies: 7

dulcimer tab with Finale 2012

the folks at MakeMusic had a great price on their Finale 2012 notation software, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. My main dulcimer tab program is...
@Jerry C Rockwell started 12 years ago - replies: 19

Effects of Fretboard Arches

Anyone interested in the effects of various kinds and sizes of arches on dulcimer sound really need to visit Richard Troughear's latest...
@Ken Hulme started 12 years ago - replies: 0

"Twangy" string

I just finished a dulcimer that has a very twangy-sounding middle string. Bass and melody sound fine. I though it might have something to do with...
@Ed Gaunt started 12 years ago - replies: 10

"Morgenrot"

As I had tabbed some German folk songs the last days, Ken Hulme asked me to tab "Morgenrot" and said that it was sung during the Civil War in the...
@Peter W. started 12 years ago - replies: 6

Position markers on chromatic dulcimer

I have noticed there are many different opinions where to place position markers on the chromatic dulcimer. I am at a critical point of placing...
@Laura Bell started 12 years ago - replies: 5

Greensboro, NC players

Are there any players around the Greensboro, NC area who would like to get together to play once in a while? I don't know anyone here who plays. I...
@Gail Webber started 12 years ago - replies: 1

Stick Dulcimer Making Theme tune Tutorial with tabs.

Hi everyone, I have been promising a video tutorial for this simple piece for a while now, Here is it in video form, tabbed it as best I can which...
@Michael J King started 12 years ago - replies: 0

Down To The River (Valley) To Pray - 5-1-1 tuning

This tune was revived by Alison Kraus for O'Brother Where Art Thou, but it is a good 100 years older! I'm playing it on my Prichard repro using...
@Robin Clark started 12 years ago - replies: 25

My newest "baby"

Finished my latest "baby" It's a shorty: 20.25 VSL. Bocote sides and bottom, curly maple top, cherry fingerboard, ebony nut and bridge. 24/18/14...
@Ed Gaunt started 12 years ago - replies: 2