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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

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

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

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

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

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

Melton Galax just finished!

Here's the latest cherry, spruce and maple Melton Galax dulcimer from my shop.  Hope you like it!
@John C. Knopf started 7 years ago - replies: 10

Unusual dulcimer bridge

I was gifted with the very old traditional dulcimer. it has  a very unusual bridge on it I've never seen one like it. The bass string is a little...
@Glenda Hubbard started 7 years ago - replies: 10

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Hank Williams cover on McSpadden Mountain dulcimer D-A-D 1+ fret.  A little impromptu instr break in the middle I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
@Janene Millen started 7 years ago - replies: 1

Early Virginia tunings?

With having interest in the early Virginia dulcimers I've seen a lot of 4 equal distance strings on dulcimers much earlier than the galax...
@Mill Branch Dulcimores started 7 years ago - replies: 3