Thos Dulcimers Watch this space for information on my hobby - dulcimer building. I hope to be able to include pictures of my work. They are typically trapazoidal, although mine are rectangular, with strings stretched horizontally and played with small wooden hammers. Underscores and square brackets are the edge of the instrument.
Slashes are the side bridges.
I's are the treble and bass bridges. Dulcimer number 1, made mostly out of red oak, was completed a month or two ago. Physically, it is about the size of a computer keyboard and sounds somewhere in tone between a grand piano and a music box. Dulcimer number 2, made mostly out of maple blocks and birch plywood is only partially assembled and doesn't have much tone at all, yet. People have asked if I would sell any of my work.