Anyone else play? Admittedly, it's because of the mountain dulcimer that I've been pretty absent on these forums for about a month, it's been getting all my attention.
I've started learning the appalachian dulcimer just lately. It's a pretty cheap one from 'Apple Creek' but I love it to bits. baby steps at the moment...'Kumbaya', 'Skip To My Lou', 'Go tell Aunt Rhody' etc but really enjoying it mate.
I'm a long-time hammered dulcimer player--bought my first one 31 years ago. I also mess around with mountain dulcimers, autoharps, whistles, fiddle, bodhran, as well as steel tongue drums. I don't know what my life would be like if it weren't for music!!!
I played hammered dulcimer for a couple of years but about six years ago I started mountain dulcimer. I fell in love with it and ended up selling my hammered dulcimer. My vote is for mountain dulcimer.
I've been thinking about learning the dulicmer lately. I grew up in a part of Appalachia, I remember we had a dulicmer building class in high school.
Stupid me, I did not take it.
How difficult is it to learn compared to the ukulele?