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Nylon-String Mountain Dulcimer!

by Steve Eulberg


I am so excited to introduce you to this brand-new instrument. I have been waiting for it for over a year and it is finally here!


Robert Stephens of South Carolina (StephensLutherie.com) has been working with Aaron O'Rourke (of Chattanooga, TN) to develop a new fingerstyle dulcimer that can also work when strung with nylon strings.



Below is my happy introduction of this beauty to you!



Several lessons featuring this instrument for the F…

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Got a new Hammered Dulcimer for Christmas?

We have just the thing to help you play it! The String-Side Up Lesson Series is for Absolute Beginning hammered dulcimer players and assumes you have no prior experience with dulcimers.  This 30-episode series starts with the parts of the dulcimer, playing in the "box", hammer grip and hammer control, getting the best tone, finding the notes and the patterns of octave and repeated notes on the instrument; exploring different kinds of hammers, tuning, learning a song, basic chords, noodling for h…

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Got a New Mountain Dulcimer for Christmas?

We have just the thing to help you play it! The String-Side Up Lesson Series is for Absolute Beginning mountain dulcimer players and assumes you have no prior experience with dulcimers.  This 31-episode series starts with the parts of the dulcimer, takes you through what is happening with your right and left hands, including strumming, picking (right hand), fingering or using a noter (left hand), playing chords, noodling for harmonies, learning tunes, playing in a linear fashion (up and down the…

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New Lesson: So You Want to be Heard?

by Steve Eulberg

Amplifying the Mountain Dulcimer.

Steve adds a sample from a new lesson series about Amplifying the Mountain Dulcimer in the DulcimerCrossing website. This sample lesson from that series that describes and demonstrates the use of a contact pickup and the combination of that pickup with a microphone. A similar lesson series for amplifying the hammered dulcimer is in development.

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