Group Discussions
String gauges
I am playing "standard " D'Addario strings (12, 14, 22). To play with my church choir, I need keys such as C, F and now Bb. I started tuning down...
@Art S started 2 years ago - replies: 2
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Here’s a great tune for St. Patrick’s Day! I was just so lucky to have received my new mountain dulcimer performance stand yesterday and was able...
@Kendra Ward started 2 years ago - replies: 0
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...
@Nate started 2 years ago - replies: 5
Jean's 1995 Blue Lion mountain dulcimer - Berea collection
https://ljacatc.berea.edu/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/objects/9702
@Robin Thompson started 2 years ago - replies: 4
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 2 years ago - 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 2 years ago - 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,...
@Nate started 2 years ago - 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...
@Nate started 2 years ago - 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 2 years ago - 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 2 years ago - replies: 0