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Saddle on Soundboard

Hello folks, I am getting ready to make a dulcimer for myself and would like to make it in the style where the fingerboard stops after the second...
@NateBuildsToys started last year - replies: 5

Jean's 1995 Blue Lion mountain dulcimer - Berea collection

https://ljacatc.berea.edu/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/objects/9702
@Robin Thompson started last year - replies: 2

Favorite Noter/Drone Tunes

Hello everyone.  What are some of your all time favorite noter/drone songs that you play or that you would like to learn?
@Kendra Ward started last year - replies: 3

Jean's phone interview with Jean Metcalfe

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I had not seen it. Seems to have occurred in 1992, when Jean was about 70:...
@Strumelia started last year - replies: 2

Vertical vs Horizontal Quill?

I have heard it said a few times that holding a quill vertically, like a pen, is an older style than holding it horizontally, like a whisk. To me,...
@NateBuildsToys started last year - replies: 4

false bottoms = added mass?

Hey folks  I've been thinking lately about false bottoms. Mainly about how possum boards deliberately suspend a dulcimer from the headstock and...
@NateBuildsToys started last year - replies: 26

newbie tuning question

I am so new to the noter style and the dulcimer the wrapper is still on, I was trying to work out “the water is wide”. I tuned in CGG, only because...
@Rickyt started last year - replies: 4

Kentucky Waltz (Bill Monroe cover)

Bill Monroe is rightly known as the father of bluegrass, but he also wrote a number of excellent tunes.  Here is my 3-stringed attempt at...
@Dusty Turtle started last year - replies: 0

Drone style playing

I’ve recently been getting into drone style playing in both bagpipe and galax tuning……(though not with a noter, more finger dancing)….and I’m...
@oldtimer48 started last year - replies: 5

Noter or finger dancing or both

I’m about six months into my dulcimer journey. Every time I practice, I try to play both noter and finger dancing styles. But should I focus on...
@tonileewj started last year - replies: 16