I’m going to adopt this goal too, if I may. I once had a friend who played this instrument well. She and her husband (who played guitar) made magical music together. I love the sound the dulcimer makes, and it lends itself well to music that appeals to me (Celtic, bluegrass, Appalachian…)

makes them, both the hammered and three stringed In fact, I actually made a dulcimer in 7th grade as a music class project (I suppose growing up in Appalachia had something to do with that).
I love the sounds they creat, close to my heart..

... even when she was just starting out, the music was transporting.

She has her day-job, but when I hear her play… I am always so glad to be alive, to listen and float and relax into the sound.

P.S. Once many years ago she was planning to go to the Britism Isles for July and August to study at the source… she referred to “My dulcimer vacation.” I was totally puzzled… “Why would anyone want to go on a dull summer vacation?”

We still laugh about this.

All by way of saying: great goal, instrument, aspiration, sound. And great joy to you, note by note.

My mom made both a dulcimer and a hammer dulcimer many years ago, and i’ve been trying to motivate myself to learn to play. I still have both, but right now they really need to be restrung. I play guitar, so restringing the dulcimer is no big deal, but the Hammer Dulcimer scares the shhh out of me. I can’t even begin to count the strings, let alone think about trying to restring it. It’s ironic that i’m a carpenter/furniture builder and I can’t imagine how she was able to make it. Anyway, Good luck to both of us.

By the way, Here is the self-proclaimed Official World Wide Web Hammered Dulcimer Page