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Is this simply a type of hummel, or something else??
This instrument was bought at an antique store and they knew nothing about it. I will add the pictures in the next post, as that seems to be the...
@Leo Kretzner started 2 months ago - replies: 8
A scheitholt with no first fret
I recently acquired a scheitholt, which I was amazed to find on Craigslist under musical instruments, as that category is 99.9% guitars, amps and...
@Leo Kretzner started 2 months ago - replies: 29
A Little Zither History
I found these interesting articles through Steve Carney: http://www.zither.us/zithermaxl...
@David Bennett started 5 years ago - replies: 10
Swedish Hummel
I recently acquired a beautiful Swedish Hummel and am trying to find out how to tune it. It is chromatic, with four pair of fretted strings and...
@Bill G started last year - replies: 3
My Frisian Hummel
Hello everybody, when I visited my parents (they live in East Frisia near the town of Norden) some weeks ago I bought an eight-stringed frisian...
@jost started 3 years ago - replies: 6
"New" Epinette des Vosges
Some years ago I bought a rather sad epinette over the internet from France. It is a small, Val dAjol-style instrument, but its length, number of...
@Geoff Black started 12 years ago - replies: 23
How old is the sheitholt?
Does anyone have a date for the earliest known scheitholt?There was a langeleik found in Norway dating from 1524 which according to what I was...
@folkfan started 13 years ago - replies: 28
Icelandic Langspil
Wanted to start a thread on this less commonly seen dulcimer relative or ancestor. I am having one of these made, three strings. For my purposes...
@Strumelia started 6 years ago - replies: 15
Do you have a favorite?
I'm curious to know if some people here have a particular dulcimer ancestor personal 'favorite'- and why they might like them more than the other...
@Strumelia started 15 years ago - replies: 14
"Elizabethan Garden" Epinette des Vosges in pear wood
An epinette des Vosges made of all pear wood, custom made for me by Michael King in the UK . I created the 'garden' vignette designs based...
@Strumelia started 7 years ago - replies: 5
MFA Boston exhibit on zithers
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a collection of musical instruments, including a section on "zithers, psalteries, and dulcimers." Some of...
@Dusty Turtle started 7 years ago - replies: 3
My little Epinette !
As some of you already know, I received a wonderful surprise Christmas gift out of the blue this month from FOTMD member John Henry of the UK....
@Strumelia started 13 years ago - replies: 27
Epinette des something something... and Questions
Hi all! I wasn't sure whether to post this here or over in the building forum, but here goes... With some of the left overs from my first...
@Anthony G. Spangler started 12 years ago - replies: 47
Hungarian Citera
I know that the citera isn't exactly an ancestor to the mountain dulcimer, more a kind of cousin, but I love listening to them being played...
@John Tose started 9 years ago - replies: 4
Dulcimentary: the history of the scheitholt and the scheitholt Ben Seymour made for me
Here is my latest dulcimentary is on the history of the scheitholt and the scheitholt Ben Seymour made for me...
@David Bennett started 9 years ago - replies: 4
Whazzit?
This is clearly not a dulcimer but an odd duck, nonetheless. It took me a while to find the tuners: interesting idea! Anybody seen anything like...
@Curtis Carlisle Bouterse started 10 years ago - replies: 4
The Traumscheit
The much profaned Tromba Marina was originally a single monochord played with a bow used for both sacred and profane music. Classical paintings...
@Gregg Schneeman started 10 years ago - replies: 4
Raffeles
Raffeles are one family of the Mountain Dulcimer's European cousins. Unlike the epinettes they have no delegated drone strings. On his You Tube...
@Gregg Schneeman started 10 years ago - replies: 1
Whose epinette?
Last year I bought this (seemingly unmarked) 7-string epinette de Vosges from a seller in the U.S, who had no information and I haven't been able...
@Curtis Carlisle Bouterse started 12 years ago - replies: 3