Transporting Your Dulcimer ..................9 your dulcimer. We hope your Dusty Strings hammered dulcimer will provide you Warranty Repair ......................10 with many years of musical enjoyment.
With a minimum of periodic attention, your instrument will remain healthy are surprised to learn that the hammered dulcimer is not a new instrument. In fact, and sound beautiful for many years to come. While the strings of guitars and other it’s been around longer than most modern instruments, and is thought to have...
Before works well. we glue up a hammered dulcimer, we equilibrate the soundboard and back in a You may find that the easiest way to protect your dulcimer for the occasional controlled environment to a relative humidity of 43% to 45%.
H E M E G Major: G A B C D E F G The hammered dulcimer is laid out in simple patterns of major scales. It is popular, accurate, and easy-to-use tuning aids. C Major: C D E F G A B C designed to provide easy access to the scales, or keys, most commonly used in These small, battery powered devices “listen”...
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— including accidentals (sharps and flats) — for a hammered dulcimer to go flat. This is why a new instrument, or one that is newly one complete octave. They come in different ranges, the most useful being the strung, will go out of tune more quickly than a seasoned instrument.
Playing Your Dulcimer progresses this may become a possibility for you. One of the nicest elements of the hammered dulcimer is its ability to turn One more option to consider is cross-tuning the instrument to itself. Explore even the simplest melody into beautiful, full-sounding music. The inherently...
You may initially have a problem focusing your eyes on the strings as you play. recordings of hammered dulcimer music available. There is also an abundance of Practice eases this fairly quickly. Tilting the top of the instrument toward you can good self-instruction methods, including books, book and CD sets, videos, and improve your perspective somewhat, the angle being purely a matter of preference.
Strings and Tunings D 10 , A P P R E N T I C E & P R E L 0 , A P P R E N T I C E & P R E L 0 , A P P R E N T I C E & P R E L 0 , A P P R E N T I C E &...
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D 3 5 & D 4 5 D 3 5 & D 4 5 D 3 5 & D 4 5 D 3 5 & D 4 5 D 3 5 & D 4 5 D 3 0 0 * D 3 0 0 * D 3 0 0 * D 3 0 0 *...
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D 5 0 0 * D 5 0 0 * D 5 0 0 * D 5 0 0 * D 5 0 0 * D 5 5 0 * D 5 5 0 * D 5 5 0 * D 5 5 0 * D 5 5 0 * * For instruments after serial #13168.
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D 6 0 0 D 6 0 0 D 6 0 0 D 6 0 0 D 6 0 0 D 6 5 0 D 6 5 0 D 6 5 0 D 6 5 0 D 6 5 0 B b b b b b 016"...
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P D 4 0 P D 4 0 P D 4 0 P D 3 0 P D 3 0 P D 3 0 P D 3 0 P D 3 0 P D 4 0 P D 4 0 Range: 3½...
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