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                                • 3 weeks ago
                                                                
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Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
                    Posted a response to "Extended Range Dulcimer":
        "My 6-string conversion of an old Korean dulcimer has a "dropped" A on the middle set and a "raised" D on the base set. Otherwise it has the common, original,..."
                            
                        
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                                • 4 weeks ago
                                                                
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Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
                    Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
        "I'm not at all surprised.
All instruments need to be properly "set up," and this is often left to the retail seller. Amateur builders often don't know how to..."
                            
                        
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                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
                    Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
        "I went back to look at the photos of the spacer and fret. Someone obviously messed it up. 
Frankly, if I was dealing with this, I would remove the plastic..."
                            
                        
                            @wally-venable
                            
                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
                    Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
        "You don't need or want diamond files for cutting wood or plastic. I use cheap (under $5) "needle" or "jewelers" files like these...."
                            
                        
                            @wally-venable
                            
                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
                    Posted a response to "A question about intonating a dulcimer":
        "To make the slot adjustment, I would use either a triangular needle file or perhaps a welding tip cleaning file. You can do it one string at a time by..."
                            
                        
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                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
                    Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
        "Ooops. Wrong citation.  Not Strothers.  
  You know there is YAFCalc? 
   Yet Another Fret Calculator..."
                            
                        
                            @wally-venable
                            
                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
                    Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
        "The Strothers calculator, and probably some others, allow you to get fret spacing in millimeters, 1/16 ths, and decimal inches if you input the VSL in those..."
                            
                        
                            @wally-venable
                            
                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
                    Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
        ""Have you built baritone dulcimers?  If so did you change anything to strengthen it for the higher string load?"
The Strothers String choice calculator..."
                            
                        
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                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
                    Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
        ""for a 29" VSL dulcimer, the 1# or 1.5 fret should be 4.614" from the nut ....."
 Life could be simpler if we specified these in millimeters, not inches. My..."
                            
                        
                            @wally-venable
                            
                                • one month ago
                                                                
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Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
                    Posted a new Comment on Fret Position:
        "Use a calculator for any chromatic instrument, guitar or uke for instance, with the desired VSL. Then you will have to figure out the count for the dulcimer..."
                            
                        
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                                • 2 months ago
                                                                
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Posted a response to "Jean Ritchie and her ballad repertoire":
                    Posted a response to "Jean Ritchie and her ballad repertoire":
        "John Knopf said "One thing I've noticed is how many of these songs dealt with disasters, death, sickness, loss of dear ones, etc."
Isn't that what a lot of..."
                            
                        
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                                • 2 months ago
                                                                
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Posted a new Comment on Short fretboard dulcimer?:
                    Posted a new Comment on Short fretboard dulcimer?:
        "From your questions, it appears that you are not an experienced luthier. The instrument you have shown us is one requiring a very high skill level. Few of us..."
                            
                        
