Michael W. Fluegge

Greetings Michael! Your presence is missed here, I hope you are well. 
Best wishes ...Strumelia

Hi Michael! My hourglass #0541/803049  is a very light instrument. What kind of woods did you use to built it?

That is good to know about ebony. In that case, I am going to keep a picture of the MD listed on ebay for a future order. I don't know how far in the future, but I hope that it is not too, too far . Like I said, it is the most beautiful MD that I have ever seen...

Pleasure to be your friend, too, Michael. You didn't miss much, I think, passing through Memphis--we only live here because of my wife's job--we are trying to move back to the birthplace of the MD (around the Appalachian Mts. where we lived for 4 years previously). I would love to play/own one of your dulcimers, but I play noter/drone style and tend to wear down the fretboard just north of the strum hollow where I whip the quill across the strings--I would absolutely hate to do that to one of your creations. Then, again, perhaps playing the slower tunes with an upright quill over the strum hollow would be just the thing... I am going to watch the ebay bidding with great interest!

Thank you Michael,you are an amazing craftsman. Your instruments are works of Art.

Hello Michael!

Your hourglass #0541/803049 has stayed in Brittany since 4 years. It's a very pleasant instrument to play, and I usually tune it CAD.

Wellcome to FOTMD community!

Pierre-Yves

Thanx Michael. I have been messing about with dulcimers since the early 70s as a hard-core dedicated N&D player. Built a couple hundred dulcimers of my own design over the years, too.

Pleased to be back in touch again, Michael.

Bought this from London a few years back and we had a brief email conversation about it.

All the best.

Geoff

And now Michael's....! It's the one on the left.

Hi Michael

Welcome to FOTMD and the Europe/UK section specifically. We look forward to seeing even more of your beautiful instruments.

Seeing there is no "Friends of the Epinette" site, I hope people will allow me to show here another example of Michael's craftmanship. It's a compact version of the double depth concert hummel/epinette, made from some unusual european and african woods. And for the sake of balance and anglo-german harmony, I include one of John Henry's superb reproductions of a historic instrument...er, it's the one with strings on if you're not sure...!

...Oh and Michael has a even more wicked sense of humour than John, particularly after a glass or two of schnapps...!

Geoff

My pleasure to accept Michael !

JohnH

Hey Michael. welcome aboard. Glad ya found us.

Michael, I didn't realize I had read about you in DPN way back in the late 80's. You make some pretty and good sounding instruments!

Rob

Hi Michael, and welcome to the wonderful world of the Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer. It's a good place to come, spend some time, learn about the dulcimer, and to meet some good people.

Ben

Welcome, Michael, to this little corner of dulcimer heaven. Hope you enjoy it here.

Rob

Howdy and welcome to FOTMD!

Hello Michael, a welcome to you from the UK/European group within FOTMD, glad that you found your way here. Check out our group (see blue header bar above, 'Groups') already have some German members, good to have another one !

JohnH