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@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
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Posted a response to "2 dulcimer dilemma":
Posted a response to "2 dulcimer dilemma":
"If they ask you to "jam" ....It's not the strawberry kind......"
@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "2 dulcimer dilemma":
Posted a response to "2 dulcimer dilemma":
" I wistfully think about some day having a flat-headed one......
And then there were three......That's how it starts.
If you are not in a dulcimer group, try..."
@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Just doing some quick "shop think'n" A thin strip of wood or metal/brass/copper as a cover, mounted flush with the peg box might give it a nice "it was..."
@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Bizarre is using bunt pans.....Love yer stuff Nate!"
@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Seriously tho....Looking at the peg head, is it perhaps probable that it started with simple pegs, and this was an attempt to put in machine tuners that..."
@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Josephus book of antiquities page 438 b ...under pre Viking design concepts........."
@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"The long thin strips across the bottom helps keep the bottom from splitting, they also provide a thicker area of mounting for the top support posts...."
@john-petry
• 3 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Wow....That peg box looks like it came up from the ocean floor in an old viking ship....
I think [if it was my project] I'd start by cleaning out those..."
@john-petry
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Short scale dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Short scale dulcimer":
"Points to ponder.... If your instrument is 17.25 inches over all, I'm supposing some of that length is headstock and tail? So perhaps we're dealing with a..."
@john-petry
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "A Question about dulcimer popularity...":
Posted a response to "A Question about dulcimer popularity...":
"Perhaps "coincidence"...But the last 2 out of three dulcimers I've sold have gone to folks looking to start learning to play., in part because of that little..."
@john-petry
• 2 months ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Scale length":
Posted a response to "Scale length":
"Perhaps over simplification, but if the only variable is the strings, Longer and thicker gauges [and therefore higher tensions] will vibrate longer on any..."