On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:45:37 -0500, Silvan
wrote:

tzipple wrote:

Have you done a web search? Lots of books and other resources on this

I have since, and yes, I've got more resources than I can shake a stick at.

I also found and bought a book about making hammered dulcimers too. At a
grand to buy a decent one, it seems like maybe I ought to give it a crack
after all.

Heck, if I could make these things I might even sell one once in awhile.

Think I might try a bowed psaltry too. Been wanting one of those for years,
but too cheap to pay for one. Think SWMBO would let me have her hair to
make a bow?

She might consider it a very romantic gesture. And a psaltry is even
easier to make (and play) than a mountain dulcimer.

BTW: Do you know that the mountain dulcimer and the highland/Irish
bagpipes are the only instruments tuned in parallel 5ths? Explains why
"Amazing Grace" works so well on the pipes.

--RC

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