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- Appalachian Dulcimers and Autoharps by Keith Young - Keith Young makes fine handcrafted appalachian dulcimers, autoharps,and Limberjacks, teaches dulcimer playing, and performs in the Mill Run Dulcimer band.
- Charlie Alm's Hammered Dulcimer Book - Book details how to build dulcimers. Testimonials, ordering information, and pictures.
- The Dulcimer Shop - Mountain dulcimers with a southwest flair, dulcimer kits, lessons, accessories, festivals and clubs.
- Dulcimer Kits - Complete kit for building a 12/11 hammered dulcimer. Picture, description, and prices.
- Bear Meadow Appalachian Dulcimers - Hand-made mountain dulcimers with information on their design, construction, finishes, materials, and FlexiFrets (a patented removable fret system). Also audio samples of Bear Meadow dulcimers.
- EverythngDulcimer.Com - Comprehensive website for those interested in the hammered dulcimer or the mountain dulcimer Includes discussion groups, tips for beginners, event listings, a marketplace of products, tablature, chat room, teacher and club listings, a contest offering dulcimer-related prizes.
- Prairie Land Dulcimer Strings - For players or lovers of the mountain dulcimer or any acoustic instrument. Features Great River Road Dulcimer Festival, WCU N.C. Dulcimer week, Spoon River Drive, and information about meetings and upcoming events.
- Joe Collins' Mountain Dulcimers - Features free tablature, tab books, recordings, dulcimers, dulcimer links, and dulcimerist Joe Collins.
- Ray Brooks - Hammered Dulcimer Player - Ray Brooks is a young Hammered Dulcimer player from Lewis Center, Ohio. He plays for regional events, parties or festival. He has placed in regional dulcimer contests. Site includes music downloads in MP3 format.
- Dulcimers - from David Kettlewell's Thesis - Photos of English hammered and trapezoid-plucked dulcimer players. Playing traditions, players, history, structure, and use.
Wikipedia Articles
- Hammered dulcimer - The hammered dulcimer (also known as the hammer dulcimer) is a stringed musical instrument with the strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board. The instrument is typically set at an angle on a stand in front of the musician, who holds a small mallet, called a hammer in each hand with which to strike the strings ( ...
- Four Hammer Dulcimer - The four hammer dulcimer, although a fresh innovation premiering in the early 1990's, is by no means a new instrument. The hammered dulcimer, not to be confused with the mountain dulcimer, has been around for millennia.
- Dulcimer - Dulcimer (also called a Dulcier or Dulcimore) is the name given to two types of stringed musical instrument:
- Randy Marchany - Randy Marchany is a hammered dulcimer player, who, along with Wes Chappell and Suzy Gorsline, is one of the original hammer dulcimer players for the band No Strings Attached, with which he has been since 1980. He plays the hammered dulcimer and keyboards, and was trained as a classical pianist.
- Appalachian dulcimer - The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, although contemporary versions of the instrument can have as many as twelve strings and six courses. The body extends the length of the fingerboard and traditionally has an hourglass, teardrop, triangular, or elliptical ...