Appalachian dulcimer

Joellen Lapidus photos. DULCIMERS BY JOELLEN LAPIDUS

Beautiful handcrafted dulcimers with exceptional sound quality.

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4-String Appalachian Dulcimer The other day I was talking to a client about the musical instruments that I can play. One of which, they say they had never heard of before. The Mountain Dulcimer. The above pictured dulcimer is taken from Amazon,and is the very same model that mine is. A dulcimer has a long history in the Appalachian mountains, but little is known about it before then. No real records exist of its being built prior to the 16th century. It is believed to have come from the…

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FOLKCRAFT DULCIMER ... IT HAS WONDERFUL SOUND .

Jeanie Ritchie (December 8, 1922-) – American folk singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player. Born in Viper, Perry County, Kentucky.

Marking: The scale degrees of the Ionian mode, as produced by fretting the melody string, are painted on the appropriate fret. The letters "DDG" are painted under the strings, presumably as a guide for tuning the instrument

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Marking: 1) (on paper label inside body) This four-string dulcimer was made by Nathan Hicks in the early spring 1934 at Rominger, North Carolina, for Miss Marion Issacs, who lives in New York City