Sadly today the hummel is a quite obscure instrument, there are propably more people playing the dulcimer in Germany than playing the hummel

Thanks Robin and Davis for your nice words.

Regarding the hummel: 

Actually the hummel/scheitholt and other dulcimer precedessors were played all over continental Europe (Skandinavia, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium but also in Hungary and todays Czech Republic) . My hummel was built by fellow FOTMD member Wilfried Ullrich who also wrote a great book about the history of the hummel:
https://fotmd.com/wilfried-ulrich 

Some information about the instruments history can be found on his website (it's in German, but using Deepl.com/Google Translate should help):

http://www.ulrich-instrumente.de/die-hummel/

He lives in Norden / Ostfriesland (Easter Frisia), ca twenty miles from the village where I grew up near the Netherlands border in the federal state of Lower Saxony. The Netherlands have also a part of Friesland,  they call it just Friesland, we call it Westfriesland (Western Frisia) since Lower Saxony has also a region east of Ostfriesland also called Friesland. 

And then there is Nordfriesland (Northern Frisia) at the North Sea Coast of the federal state of Schlewsig Holstein.

I guess I managed to confuse you enough now so I will stop  now :)
If you still are interested Wikipedias article explain it a lot better than me: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisia


Best regards, Jost.

Sounds great.I didn't know Friesland had a hummel.

I like the sound of your hummel, Jost.  

I used my tab of this charming love song, see German Folk Song Tabs