Group Discussions
How to Master the Quill ?
What is your technique ? Do you emery board your Quill or trimming it ? asI strum I get it hung up !
@Sue Simms started 16 years ago - replies: 8
A Mixolydian Hymn: In Christ There Is No East Or West
Mixolydian hymns are rare almost to the point of nonexistence. "In Christ There Is No East or West" has a flatted seventh in the third measure, so...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 9
Sound posts or not
It could have been that in my dreams that I read, you would never use sound posts like the ones employed in violins when making MD's Now I have two...
@Alan Thompson started 16 years ago - replies: 16
Thoughts on String Gauges on Galax MDs
I have tried every gauge on my Galax dulcimer from 0.010s to 0.013s - I have a 27" VSLLately I have been using 0.013s (they pack a punch). But I...
@Robin Clark started 16 years ago - replies: 17
If you could buy your first dulcimer over again.....?
I think that all of us (new and experienced players alike), if we were able to go back and change something about the very first dulcimer we ever...
@Strumelia started 16 years ago - replies: 24
Show us your Galax!
A thread to post pictures and descriptions of our Galax style dulcimers! (drool drool....)
@Strumelia started 16 years ago - replies: 18
Videos of FOTMD members playing Galax dulcimers
A discussion where we can post videos of ourselves playing Galax style, or Galax style dulcimers...
@Strumelia started 16 years ago - replies: 13
Bowing box dulcimers
About the logistics of bowing box dulcimers and the arched vs. non-arched bridge.... Rik said: "Regarding my comment below about bowing: It's clear...
@Strumelia started 16 years ago - replies: 4
What do you want in a box dulcimer?
Stephen Seifert's Don Neuhauser TMB is really cool. I've made a couple of drawings of these things over the last few months, trying to decide...
@Flint Hill started 16 years ago - replies: 12
Prussia Valley Music Box
Prussia Valley Music Box, luthier Gary Sager July '06 spruce top with cherry back, long sides, and fret board
@Robin Thompson started 16 years ago - replies: 3