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My 169th dulcimer

Pleased with this one, top is curly white ash, the back and sides curly walnut. Has a nice bright sound!
@Dale A Penrose started 8 years ago - replies: 15

Latest Build

Commissioned piece going to Virginia. Walnut sides and bottom with curly maple top. Maple fretboard with African Blackwood overlay. This is...
@Kusani started 8 years ago - replies: 4

Rebuilds

One thing I have wondered about is refurbishing old dulcimers, or especially rebuilding/upgrading student model dulcimers. I know guitarists do it...
@YeahSureOK started 8 years ago - replies: 8

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 8 years ago - replies: 8

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 8 years ago - replies: 6

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 8 years ago - replies: 7

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 8 years ago - replies: 7

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 8 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 8 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 8 years ago - replies: 2