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@nate
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Ken Longfield:
Thanks, Nate. I see that I didn't pay attention to that in the original post. It seems like an awful lot of work compared to installing them..."
@ken-longfield
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Thanks, Nate. I see that I didn't pay attention to that in the original post. It seems like an awful lot of work compared to installing them the conventional..."
@nate
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"John Pettreemusic:
Bizarre is using bunt pans.....Love yer stuff Nate!
Thank you, I appreciate it John!
With that said, I have to admit Ive seen a ton of..."
@nate
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Ken Longfield:
Were the mounting plates of the tuners screwed to the bottom of opening in the peg head?
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
Ken if i..."
@nate
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Soldering tuners into a metal cage gives new meaning to the phrase "locking tuners" LOL"
@john-petry
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Just doing some quick "shop think'n" A thin strip of wood or metal/brass/copper as a cover, mounted flush with the peg box might give it a nice "it was..."
@ken-longfield
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"I think I understand the tuning machines now. It appears that they were placed inside the peg head with the gears on the bottom. The shaft that holds the..."
@john-petry
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Bizarre is using bunt pans.....Love yer stuff Nate!"
@john-petry
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Seriously tho....Looking at the peg head, is it perhaps probable that it started with simple pegs, and this was an attempt to put in machine tuners that..."
@john-petry
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Josephus book of antiquities page 438 b ...under pre Viking design concepts........."
@nate
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Wow thats the most bizarre system for anchoring tuning pegs that ive ever seen. Is this a method others have seen before?"
@robert-owens
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Thanks again for your all's input.
That makes sense about the sound posts. I think I'll just try and put them back the way they were.
And I may try to..."
@ken-longfield
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Both James Edward Thomas and Charles N. Prichard used sound posts in their dulcimers. Thomas installed two post; one around the third fret and the other..."
@john-petry
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"The long thin strips across the bottom helps keep the bottom from splitting, they also provide a thicker area of mounting for the top support posts...."
@robert-owens
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Thank you John & Ken for your quick responses and great advice! I think I have the tools and wood that I'll need to repair it and reinforce it, etc. I..."
@john-petry
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"Wow....That peg box looks like it came up from the ocean floor in an old viking ship....
I think [if it was my project] I'd start by cleaning out those..."
@ken-longfield
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Posted a response to "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"That looks like an interesting project. From your photos it looks like you have most of or all of the pieces you need. Since you have experience, what do you..."
@ken-longfield
• 5 days ago
• comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Made in Germany 100 years ago:
Posted a new Comment on Made in Germany 100 years ago:
"Very nice mandolin. Here is the USA we call those bowl back mandolins "tater bugs." It is because they resemble to shape of insects known as potato bugs...."
@robin-thompson
• 5 days ago
• comments: 4
Posted a new Comment on After the Flood:
Posted a new Comment on After the Flood:
"Many thanks, Val, for listening-- we're glad you like the tune! We're slowing down and so is our music.
P.S.- The music room is a wreck! "
@robert-owens
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
Created a new forum topic "Help with restoring a 1962 Arthur Dixon dulcimer?":
"I have a 1962 Arthur Dixon mountain dulcimer, from Whitesburg, KY, that has been in my family since it was built. It has a fair amount of cracks and other..."
@strumelia
• 5 days ago
• comments: 2
Posted a new Comment on Made in Germany 100 years ago:
Posted a new Comment on Made in Germany 100 years ago:
"Lovely! I have an old Wurlitzer mandolin that plays sweetly as well."
@benjamin-w-barr-jr
• 5 days ago
• comments: 6
Liked a youtube item created by @john-w-mckinstry: The Garden Hymn
Liked a youtube item created by @john-w-mckinstry: The Garden Hymn
@benjamin-w-barr-jr
• 5 days ago
• comments: 3
Posted a new Comment on @cabbagejen:
Posted a new Comment on @cabbagejen:
"Hi Jen, 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,..."
@robin-thompson
• 5 days ago
• comments: 3
Posted a new Comment on @macaodha:
Posted a new Comment on @macaodha:
"What good fortune you and Jean Ritchie were able to meet, Val! Though I never had the privilege of seeing her in-person , she is one of my music heroes...."
@randy-adams
• 5 days ago
• comments: 4
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: After the Flood
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: After the Flood
@richard-streib
• 5 days ago
• comments: 30
Posted a new Comment on Suggestions please for buying a first dulcimer:
Posted a new Comment on Suggestions please for buying a first dulcimer:
"Joe that seems to be a good price. The Warren May is the better deal as far as value. Warren's dulcimers are considered "better" by some for playing in..."
@lilley-pad
• 5 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Don Neuhauser":
Posted a response to "Don Neuhauser":
"(The Wayback Machine)
Now we are really showing our age. Rocky and Bullwinkle (Really Rock) Smile "
@joe
• 6 days ago
• comments: 30
Posted a new Comment on Suggestions please for buying a first dulcimer:
Posted a new Comment on Suggestions please for buying a first dulcimer:
"I've found my Mcspadden black walnut and Warren May poplar dulcimers on Facebook Marketplace for $300 each. The Warren May has never been played, and the..."
@dwain-wilder
• 6 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Don Neuhauser":
Posted a response to "Don Neuhauser":
"I'm sorry to hear of Don Neuhauser's passing. We need to be training new talent as we get long in the tooth!
Lilley Pad:
Going by the pictures I've seen on..."
@alex-lubet
• 6 days ago
• comments: 5
Posted a new Comment on @alex-lubet:
Posted a new Comment on @alex-lubet:
"Thanks for your kind words, everyone. It's great to be here.
I think my dulcimer journey might be a bit unusual. I started on guitar almost sixty years..."
@robin-thompson
• 6 days ago
• comments: 0
Posted a response to "Don Neuhauser":
Posted a response to "Don Neuhauser":
"@lilley-pad Don passed away a few years back. "
@frank-dudgeon
• 6 days ago
• comments: 4
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: After the Flood
Liked a music item created by @robin-thompson: After the Flood
@lilley-pad
• 6 days ago
• comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "Don Neuhauser":
Created a new forum topic "Don Neuhauser":
"Hello everybody, does anyone know if Don Neuhauser is still making instruments? His Dulci-Bro Resonator.
Going by the pictures I've seen on the internet..."