Dulcimer! Hammered or appalachian

lovinforkful · Jul 31, 2011

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.

Huna · Jul 31, 2011

if you have enough moonshine, you'll get hammered

Hippie Dribble · Aug 26, 2011

hi lovinforkful

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.

shrink9 · Aug 26, 2011

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!!!

fumanshu · Aug 26, 2011

I just start a thread of my new dulcimer that I've got....

[url]http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?52334-My-new-baby...this-thing-is-so-cool![/URL]

wolfybau · Aug 27, 2011

I have a 'walkabout' dulcimer , love it

http://walkaboutdulcimer.com/

Flyingcursor · Aug 27, 2011

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.

Doc_J · Aug 29, 2011

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?

Huna · Aug 29, 2011

its like one string and doesn't have all the notes so anyone can play it. two drone strings and one string played. I have one from KY.

harpdog cc · Aug 29, 2011

I was surprised by my wife with a Christmas gift of a lap dulcimer a number of years ago.

Roselle Dulcimers of Roselle, Illinois. Kind of a long scale. Haven't learned much on it yet.

We bought a hammered dulcimer for my wife, but it's collecting dust.

hoosierhiver · Aug 29, 2011

C.B Gitty has a piece on making dulcimers.
http://www.cbgitty.com/index.php

Dulcimer! Hammered or appalachian

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