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Dulcimers

Designed for kids and people with no prior experience, this is a strummed dulcimer you hold and play like a guitar. If you're not familiar with the dulcimer fretboard, the idea is that the two bass strings are normally played open, as a drone. The melody is played on the treble string.

Tuned to a simple open chord, eg D - a - d, the fretboard layout does not have a full compliment of frets. The frets corresponding to "bad" notes are missing - it plays in tune wherever you fret a note!

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 Abby's strum dulcimer

 P1010468a

P1010466a

 

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