Group Discussions

Don Grundy

Anyone else tune GDg?


I have two backpacker dulcimers with 22.5 VSL.  Both are tuned GDG and GDDD.  Does anyone else play short VSL that use this tuning?
@Don Grundy started 7 years ago - replies: 8
Bert Bennett

Cedar dulcimer


Has anyone ever built a dulcimer from cedar (the kind of cedar you can get from Home Depot and Lowe's)?  I've been thinking about trying that....
@Bert Bennett started 7 years ago - replies: 6
Collier Frederick

Ban-jammer build questions


I am currently in the process of constructing a ban-jammer in the pattern of the Clemmer model. I was just wondering if anyone that had experience...
@Collier Frederick started 7 years ago - replies: 7
David Bennett

Dulcimer vs Dulcimore


Today I ran across a letter to the editor written in 1973 regarding Dulcimer vs Dulcimore. Hopefully the screen capture I made will come out OK....
@David Bennett started 7 years ago - replies: 7
Ken Hulme

New Body


Here's a new body I made for a student's cardboard dulcimer.  Butternut top & back and maple sides.  Materials cost about $15, not counting...
@Ken Hulme started 7 years ago - replies: 7
GaryFSmith

TMB Builders List - 2018


I'm looking for TMB builders, both full-time and part-time), especially those in Tennessee where I live. Thanks!
@GaryFSmith started 7 years ago - replies: 3
Banjimer

1930s Kentucky Dulcimer Recordings Free Online


The Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress has made available a large number of recordings collected by Alan Lomax and his wife...
@Banjimer started 7 years ago - replies: 2
Ken Longfield

The Ugly Dulcimer - A Story


Somewhere and at sometime someone decided to build a mountain dulcimer kit. I imagine that the kit was ordered with the expectation of building a...
@Ken Longfield started 7 years ago - replies: 8
John W. McKinstry

A simple chord accompaniment in D A A


In D A A, using the finger- chord style method, I have found that a simple chord accompaniment tabbed: D= 530, G= 630 & A= 404  is useful...
@John W. McKinstry started 7 years ago - replies: 0
John W. McKinstry

Ways of getting people interested in the dulcimer


Here are some ways that I have tried to get people interested in the dulcimer. First I perform with the dulcimer, sometimes at church or at the...
@John W. McKinstry started 7 years ago - replies: 0
 
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