New (well to me) Dulcimer

Rod Westerfield
09/08/09 03:09:35PM
@rod-westerfield
Ok here are a couple pictures I found on line, from when it was made....

It is a Prussia Valley Extended Range made by Gary Sager... it has 5 strings set up equidistant.. tuned D'A'DAd.... so you have a regular dulcimer on the first 3 strings, thew middle 3 strings make a ADA baritone tuning, the last 3 strings make a Bass dulcimer... or you can just have a few extra drones.. I was trying many different things with it this weekend. What fun, been exploring music theory stuff to think of things to do with it. My favorite so far has been to play the melody on the middle string then have high and low octave drones....here is a youtube of me playing it ....
it has quite a voice... big and mighty... I'm thinking of calling it Samson...