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@skip • yesterday • comments: 9
Posted a new Comment on Electronic Tuners / Reference Note:

"There are phone apps also."

@skip • 6 days ago • comments: 0
Created a new Group discussion "Chord Resource and new tuning. ":

"Here is an amazing chord generator for those playing 4 equidistant strings and looking for chord fingerings. It does not work for less than 4 strings. DAAA..."
Four-Equidistant Strings

@skip • 2 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Bass Dulcimers ":

"Blue Lion also has the 5 string Acoustic Jam bass with a 26 1/4 " VSL and 1 5/8" fretboard and Folkcraft has one with a 26" VSL with a 2" wide fretboard. I..."

@skip • 4 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "North country dulcimers floating bridge replacement":

"If you go to Jan Potts public page, there is a post by 'Paula' just below the photo [her thumb nail id icon] that looks like it is probably a photo of the..."

@skip • one month ago • comments: 13
Posted a new Comment on Thoughts on tonewoods?:

"Make it deeper, 1/2" or so, the bigger body [more volume] will help."

@skip • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "End of Finger Stabs":

"I bend them back like Strumelia and make sure the cut end is inside the tuner hole."

@skip • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Introduce Yourself!":

"If the tuning is A2E3A3 [lower than DAd] or similar it's a baritone. The physical dimensions won't be an indicator. "

@skip • one month ago • comments: 53
Posted a new Comment on Public Domain... or Not?:

"I don't know the song but this may help if you have the time...."

@skip • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Making a noter":

"I heard bamboo tomato stakes from a garden center are Tonkin cane. It's used for top quality split cane flyrods and those giant scaffolds you see in China. "

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Making a noter":

"If you take a heavy [metal] noter [I used a 5/16 x 3 1/2 " bolt] and with a light touch, you can slide the bolt/noter on the string, without the string..."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Making a noter":

"The noter acts as a movable fret like a slide on a steel guitar or dobro. So you can actually get the notes in the large spaces as long as you stay away from..."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Making a noter":

"I don't think the string needs to touch a fret when using a noter. If that's true, it's the answer to the tuning problem [with a bit of practice]."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Making a noter":

"Last nite I happened to think that anything you can cut to size and hold onto would work, screwdriver, chunk of a broom/mop/garden tool, tablespoon, big nail..."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Making a noter":

" I used a heat gun in a home built, stove pipe oven to harden mine when I was making split cane fly rods. Try a dobro [bottle neck] slide. Pretty much the..."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Making a noter":

"You could fire harden the bamboo."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 20
Posted a new Comment on From Ionian to Mixolydian:

"Use a round toothpick as long as it's thicker than the staples. Since they are usually tapered they can be moved until the best thickness is under the string."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 20
Posted a new Comment on From Ionian to Mixolydian:

"An ~2" cut down paperclip or toothpick close to the same fret thickness [about .040'] and tape running parallel to, and between, the strings. Use a tuner..."

@skip • 2 months ago • comments: 20
Posted a new Comment on From Ionian to Mixolydian:

"Temporary 6+ fret."