With a brand new interest in hammered dulcimers and zero experience I've been surfing the web looking for information. It looks like there is a "piano tuned"...
Hi, Are you talking about the James Jones Linear Chromatic? I've been lusting after one for years, but haven't saved up enough to get one yet. There is a...
Wil, While I haven't had much experience with piano tuned dulcimers I'd probably want something with a lot of courses. I've seen some in catelogs boasting of...
My feeling about this is if you want to play a fully chromatic, piano tuned instrument, then play a piano! In my opinion, chromatic dulcimers do not sound that...
I was thinking more of the Sam Rizzetta tuning. Straight chromatic tuning from bottom to top on one bridge. Dusty Strings in Seattle WA has one at a fairly...
Jim, Thanks for the info. That's the sort of thing I was looking for. Didn't know about the ability to change keys with same hammer patterns. That sounds like...
Ian, I suppose you drive a Model T because you like the challenge of using a car with limited ease of driving, too. I am interested in the dulcimer because of...
Unless your jumping into jazz or tunes that have a lot of strange chords save yourself a bundle and look around for a standard tune dulcimer. Check everything...
Hi, I'm actually a drummer. I don't get to practice with my kit too often, but I have a bodhran and several doumbeks. I am a lazy person when it comes to...
Dear Wil, Welcome to HDG. As you may know, there is a kind of hammered dulcimer in Iran (Persia) called santoor, very similar to Iraqi santoor. There is a...
... Wil, As you say you are brand new to dulcimers my first reaction is to say "Go for a fifth tuned one", but on thinking about it, it depends on may things, ...
Ooooh! Another drummer makes the jump! Of the three or four best HD players I know of all three or four were in fact drummers in the past. Bill Bosler has...
... snip ... Me too. So I got a yangqin- strange arrangement but fully chromatic and you don't have to change hammer patterns when you change keys. And all...
The dusty strings Piano Dulcimers are pretty popular, according to a DS salesman I spoke to. It seems like the way to go if your used to thinking in terms of...
Thanks for all your inputs. I live about 50 miles from Seattle and will be going over there tomorrow. Plan on visiting Dusty Strings and Whamdiddle. Will let...
Well, I went to Seattle and found that the address for Whamdiddle on his web site is a mail drop facility. Person there said he had no show room but did play...
Wil, Congratulations on your new instrument. We see the occasional Dusty Strings here in Michigan and a friend even went so far as to trade up from a very...
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iam iranian inesteroment string seller ihave 5 santoor, 5 seatar,and,tonback i sell some time in ebay and other onlin shoping my price are low and good...
Dear Friends, This is just to inform that I found a good site for dulcimers by Tom Strothers, HD lover and web designer: http://www.strothers.com All the best,...
Hello all, My name is Michael and I am a Hammered Dulcimer (and drums) player in New York (I just moved from Chicago). Anyhow, I was on the old HD mailing...
Strange how things work out. I too got a call from the music director of my church asking me to sit in on a practice session last night. He wants to stick...
... learn on a ... problem, Thank you. Yes I was looking at a picture on the DS website showing the PD-40..and was trying to figure out how you'd play it...
Hey, Michael! ... I used to play a Dusty Strings D15, which was the 15/14 from before the D25. I was frustrated by the lack of chromatics, so I had a little ...
... So I assume you did this to leave the D on the left side of the treble a D without adjusting it, and only adjustng the G to G# not a D#/G# ? Otherwise you...
... Hey besides the other questions i already asked... I just tried this on my instrument for right now. I didn't realize, it makes nearly the entire ...
... Right. The bridge I put in was a little skinny one, just a little taller than the side rail, so that the string would make contact with it. You could...
I was just wondering how things were going for anyone who was trying out the alternate chromatic tuning scheme for standard (non-chromatic) dulcimer. As there...
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