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@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"barnjam:
Richard Ash at Folkcraft has a great write up on the subject of hands, fingers, and VSLs...."
@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"You may as well try to trademark the name "Black Cat". (But I shouldn't have veered as far off Barnjam's topic as I did. Will try to behave now.) "
@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"@barnjam ...remember you don't 'have to' play in the key of D, either. And having a chromatic means you don't have to worry about the usual diatonic 'gaps'..."
@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"Nate:
The "stringjoy string tension calculator" says that a 35" VSL tuned to D4 with a 0.007 gauge string (lowest Ive seen in an ernie ball pack) will have..."
@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"Another factor when making the fretboard longer and longer is that, depending on what notes you want to tune the strings to, you will have to choose string..."
@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"barnjam:
Strumelia, your suggestion of arching the fingers is excellent, and I will try to improve on that. I wrote a blog post on the angling of our..."
@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"One added thing I'd like to just check on-you say you have trouble with bumping into other strings when you fret and slide with your "large hands", yet your..."
@strumelia
• 4 weeks ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
"I'm a little confused here and i have questions. You say you like to play the melody mostly all on your melody string while occasionally plucking the middle..."
@strumelia
• one month ago
• comments: 19
Liked a group discussions item created by @whereupon: sources for medieval sheet music?
Liked a group discussions item created by @whereupon: sources for medieval sheet music?
@strumelia
• one month ago
• comments: 9
Posted a new Comment on Three or Four Strings, that is the question:
Posted a new Comment on Three or Four Strings, that is the question:
"I've personally noticed that over the course of the past 25 years (no pun intended, lol) the doubled melody string has changed from been the overwhelmingly..."
@strumelia
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Listing A Dulcimer For Sale":
Posted a response to "Listing A Dulcimer For Sale":
"BTW the whole problem was the size of the images- that was also causing the text to stretch in order to be the same width as the giant pictures. Once i..."
@strumelia
• one month ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Listing A Dulcimer For Sale":
Posted a response to "Listing A Dulcimer For Sale":
"I reduced the photo sizes and deleted the additional threads... see if it's ok now:..."