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Stick Dulcimers/Strumsticks

Regardless of what name you favor, this group is a special meeting place for folks who love any variation of diatonic stick instrument whatchamacallits !

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Welcome to Stick Dulcimers/Strumsticks Group

For you builders of these fun little instruments, or potential builders, please keep the information in the Builders Discussion for easy reference:

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Who sells them? 24 Replies

Please post here if you want to suggest the various makers who build and sell these stick dulcimers.Please remember- no direct selling or pricing/ordering details here- do that all you like in the…Continue

Tags: dulcimers, stick, strumsticks

Started by Strumelia. Last reply by Anne Maguire May 8.

Strumstick Like Beginner 27 Replies

I have made feeble attempts in the past to learn several string instruments, which now decorate the wall by my chair in the living room.  While on a trip last month we stopped at a shop in Branson,…Continue

Started by Jim Bollman. Last reply by Kevin Messenger May 8.

Why we may as well call stick dulcimers 'stick dulcimers' 22 Replies

Just wanted to offer my opinion on the question of what we should call these 'Strumstick'-style instruments.Some people (Ken for one!) think we shouldn't use the term 'stick dulcimer' because this…Continue

Started by magictime. Last reply by Ken Hulme May 6.

Show us your stick dulcimer! 37 Replies

Post a favorite picture of YOURS here!

Tags: strumstick, dulcimer, stick

Started by Strumelia. Last reply by Dave Johnson May 5.

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Comment by Gary Howe on May 11, 2012 at 2:16am

Boy, that is a strange instrument but if you learn to play it I would thing it would be fun. Each night before I go to bed I sit on the end of the bed and play Angelfish my Stick Dulcimer, it is a great way to relax and sleep well.

Comment by Anne Maguire on May 7, 2012 at 11:37pm

Kevin, could you provide a link to your page, please? I am always on the hunt for a new strum!

Comment by Steve Eckel on April 29, 2012 at 4:39pm

Awesome instrument!  It pretty well covers all the bases except woodwind unless I missed something!!

Comment by Randy S. Bretz on April 28, 2012 at 11:09am

Not sure where this instrument would belong but it does have a stick type of dulcimer on it, so in this group is where i`ll put it.

Comment by Wayne Anderson on December 14, 2011 at 6:50pm

Hello Joanne, I started with the McNally, standard and as I learned I retuned it to FCF tuning and later purchased a Grand tuned to DAD. They are fun to play and if you like a good friend of mine has a book of 69 simple songs and it is not expensive, I can forward the info if you like. The small Strumstick group we have here in Kingston uses this book to learn and work from.

Comment by Joanne Bois on December 14, 2011 at 4:11pm

Hi Wayne,

Yes my Strumstick is a McNally. It's got great sound. It sounds like a mini banjo. One of the musicians here at Kings Landing loves it. I am in the process of learning three songs on it. Haven't had much chance to play around with it yet.

Comment by Wayne Anderson on December 14, 2011 at 2:29pm

Hi Joanne - is your strumstick a McNally - also check out the latests posts in the North of the Lakes group there is some info there about Canadian Luthiers who make the Mountain Dulcimer.

Comment by Ken Hulme on December 14, 2011 at 2:14pm

Welcome Joanne.  Did you by a Strumstick (tm), or another form of American Cittern from another builder?

Comment by Joanne Bois on December 14, 2011 at 10:41am

I just bought my first Strumstick and I am now looking to purchase a Dulcimer.

Comment by Bobby Ratliff on December 9, 2011 at 12:31am

Nice looking headstock John. I used a similar looking style on my latest Cigar Box Strummer I made. Works very nicely.

 

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