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Comment by Doug Farish on January 30, 2011 at 5:06am

Hello All,

 What a great site. I just love browsing this site. I have spent hours just reading all the comments on building and playing. My youngest son and I built a dulcimer in 2002 from a kit that I bought at Silver Dollar City. We had a great time together on this build. My son loved to play it and i get a big enjoyment playing also. I am going to try and get into building CBG's and will attempt to build my first CBG very soon.  Just looking for the right box to pop up. Thanks again for this great site.

Doug

Comment by Uncle John on January 3, 2011 at 4:20pm

Thanks folks.  Will give it a try. 

Comment by Diane in Chicago on January 3, 2011 at 3:06pm

How long is the instrument from nut to bridge? Once you know that you can use this to help you choose the strings for your chosen tuning: 

http://www.strothers.com/string_choice.htm

Comment by Wichita Sam on January 3, 2011 at 2:31pm

John,

 

I'm been using the 1-2-3 strings and tuning an octave higher that you are.  This gives the strummer a much more dulcimer sound...

 

the best,

 

Wichita Sam

Comment by Uncle John on January 3, 2011 at 2:10pm

Hi folks,   I finished my first cigar box (dulcimer fretted) strummer.  What strings from a 6 string guitar set should I use?  I am currently tuned DAD using the D, B and small E from a guitar set.  The Ds are an octave apart.  It sounds good, but not quite right......  Hep me, Hep me!

Comment by Leroy Beal on December 19, 2010 at 7:24am

Free Holiday dulcimer music! Renowned recording artist Bing Futch recorded a selection of Christmas and holiday tunes using his brand new Folkcraft chromatic dulcimer. Here is a link to the download page.

http://www.folkcraft.com/Free-Holiday-Music.html?dm=10622

Enjoy

Comment by Wiley Rutledge on October 31, 2010 at 1:52pm

Someone asked about the fret placement for dulcimers, try googling The Tennessee Music Box Project or go to http://www.everythingdulcimer.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1... . Somewhere in this discussion is a pdf for fret positions for 24, 26 and 28 inch string lengths. The TMB is basically a dulcimer with straight sides, much like the European version, but has the same fret patterns of the traditional mountain dulcimer. It tends to be more "twangy" than is currently in fashion, but sounds very much like the traditional MD and I suspect, CBMD's.

Comment by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on October 12, 2010 at 5:07am

Hey everyone, I've just posted a great Cigar Box Mountain Dulcimer (CBMD) how-to article by Diane over at www.cbgitty.com. Click here to be taken directly to the article. Diane does a great job of covering the key things you'll need to know about how to translate your CBG-building experience into CBMD-building experience!

Comment by Joe Scislowicz on September 12, 2010 at 10:37am

Liam, great build. Post some more pics this is very cool. Love the wood contrasts.

Comment by LittleBigOne on August 5, 2010 at 9:40pm

The thread from Randy S. Bretz's discussion 'Lets fill this up with any and all dulcimer builds here in the nation' in the group Dulciworld has been deleted, anyone know what's going on ?

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