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Any chance we can hear you play this instrument?

I just saw this post for the first time ten months later. Wow! Not a single answer! Anyway, here's an answer for those who might have the same question: The treble bridge should be placed at exactly 2/5ths of the distance between side bridges. Final intonation may require some minute adjustments to ...

A year or ten ago, I began researching the idea of building a spinet. My research led me to draw my own plans for an Italian square spinet, rather than the odd-looking English one. That work left me happy but exhausted. So I went back to building bowed dulcimers for a quick fix. Eventually, I got ar...

I hope this solution doesn't come too late, but here it is, anyway: Loosen strings; remove the bridges; drill four or five small, blind holes at equal distances on the bottom of each bridge; snap the head off from small brads to leave a piece about a quarter-inch long; insert the cut end of the brad...

Here's how my basic bowed dulcimer looks like. The dimensions are in my previous post. I have already made a wooden case that weighs a ton, but I'm still hoping for something a bit lighter and more elegant than a crate with a handle.

I make bowed dulcimers and I need to find a source for ready-made hard cases. I have searched the internet up and down for a simple but, alas, elusive answer: what is the total dimension -- tip to toes total, not just body length -- of a 1/2 size cello or a large viola case. I get tons of charts but...

Once upon a time on MIMF there was a mountain dulcimer fret calculator called e-fret. Over the years, I downloaded it several times, but the darn thing was in the habit of deleting itself after a while. Now it disappeared for the last time, and I can't find it anywhere, not even in my back up files!...