Dulcimers
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Appalachian Dulcimers
Appalachian Dulcimers are hand crafted by Keith Young. The instruments he builds come in six shapes: teardrop, hourglass, backpack, youngster, courting, and concert. The wood he uses includes black walnut, wild cherry, curly maple, wormy chestnut, butternut, and spruce. He also offers a standard 6 1/2 fret along with an optional 1 1/2 fret.Website: Appalachian Dulcimers -
Back Yard Music
Backyard Music dulcimers are for the beginner player. Their Simplicity Dulcimer features strong cardboard soundbox, mahogany fretboard, and three strings. They also offer a kit so you can build your own.Website: Back Yard Music -
Bear Mountain Appalachian Dulcimers
Dwain Wilder's Bear Meadow dulcimers come in concert series or standard series models. The concert series is designed for prefessional musicians and serious students. It features the Concert Grand, Urnes Grand, Baby Grand, and Swan. The standard series features the Concert Hourglass, Hourglass, and Teardrop models. With each instrument is offered the options of planetary tuners, adjustable friction pegs, spruce tonewood, zircote fingerboard, abalone position dots, and acoustic pickups.Website: Bear Mountain Appalachian Dulcimers -
Berg Dulcimers
Bill Berg hand crafts mountain and hammered dulcimers. His mountain dulcimers include professional, teardrop long scale, beginner, and hourglass models. His hammered dulcimers come in 14-15, 11/12, and plywood hammered 11/12 models.Website: Berg Dulcimers -
Blue Lion Instruments
Blue Lion offers a variety of dulcimers. They offer Teardrop Walnut, Style I, Style II, Bass, Baritone, and 6-String models as well as a model designed by Jean Ritchie. They also feature the Acoustic Jam dulcimer which is designed for jam sessions or any playing situation requiring a loud instrument and forceful picking or strumming.Website: Blue Lion Instruments -
Carrot Creek Dulcimers
Carrot Creek offers unique hand crafted dulcimers made from quality Walnut boards. In addition to the higher quality instruments, Carrot Creek also offers student models made from Italian Poplar laminate that are ideal for a novice or as a second instrument for travelling.Website: Carrot Creek Dulcimers -
Cedar Creek Dulcimers
Cedar Creek builds mountain and hammered dulcimers. Their mountain dulcimer models include the Old-Timer (teardrop shape with a thinner sound box), Red Meadow (teardrop shape with a deeper sound box), Cedar Creek (hourglass shape with a deep box), Walnut Classic (hourglass shape with solid book matched hardwood), Artist 6-String, Dulci-Lin (smaller size that gives it almost a mandolin sound), and Chord Stik (held upright). Their hammered dulcimers include the Meadowlark (baltic birch, walnut rails, maple pin blocks, 13/12), Whipperwill (solid mahogany, 16/15), Warbler (solid mahogany, 17/16/8), and Wren (solid mahogany, 13/12).Website: Cedar Creek Dulcimers -
Cripple Creek Dulcimers
Cripple Creek Dulcimers offers hand crafted Appalachian dulcimers. They offer a line of mountain dulcimers featuring the Cripple Creek, Professional, Hummingbird, and Abalone Vine. They also offer 12/11, 15/14, and 16/15 Masterworks hammered dulcimers. In addition to these, they build custom unique dulcimers featuring intricate inlays and high quality woods.Website: Cripple Creek Dulcimers -
DulcimerCraft.com
Jack Larwa builds custom unique dulcimers. He offers tear drop or hourglass shapes in mahogany, cherry, or walnut woods. He uses wooden friction tuners and offers f-holes, circles, or hummingbirds for sound holes.Website: DulcimerCraft.com -
Folkcraft Instruments
Folkcraft Instruments offers a line of mountain and hammered dulcimers. Their mountain dulcimers come in both hourglass and tear drop shapes and are made with hickory, northern cherry, black walnut, western red cedar, padauk, sitka spruce, or claro walnut woods. Their hammered dulcimers come in 16/15, 17/16, 12/11, and 15/14 varieties.Website: Folkcraft Instruments -
Galax Dulcimers
Galax dulcimers are a form of lap dulcimer that are lozenge-shaped, with deeper sides than most other dulcimers, usually 2 1/2 to 3 inches. The woods used to build these instruments include cherry and walnut.Website: Galax Dulcimers -
Gila Mountain Dulcimers
Gila Mountain Dulcimers offers handmade dulcimers in a variety of styles. Their Dragon, Economy, Equus, Performace, Traditional Collection, and Southwest Collection can all be built using walnut, cherry, or mahogany body wood and cedar or spruce soundboard wood in a square or teardrop body style.Website: Gila Mountain Dulcimers -
Grass Roots Dulcimers
Grassroots hammered dulcimers come in either 15/14 or 12/11 size. They also offer hard maple internal bracing, solid hard maple or laminated hard maple pin blocks, solid mahogany trim, and solid spruce, birch, mahogany, or red oak plywood soundboards.Website: Grass Roots Dulcimers -
J & K Dulcimers
J & K offers custom crafted hammered dulcimers. These dulcimers come in RBD 8/22/22 Five Octave Chromatic, Concert Grand 21/21 Four Octave Chromatic, Custom 16/16 Three Octave Chromatic, and LBD 8/13/13 Three Octave Travel Dulcimer varieties. All dulcimers feature rosewood inlays, birdseye or curly maple rails, mahogany, sitka spruce, or western red cedar sound boards, and hand rubbed lacquer finishes.Website: J & K Dulcimers -
James Jones Musical instruments
James Jones Appalachian Dulcimers come standard with a 26.8" scale length, ebony nut and saddle, and channeled fingerboard. You can choose between a teardrop or hourglass shape, cedar, redwood, or spruce soundboard, and walnut, cherry, or mahogany back, sides, and peghead.Website: James Jones Musical instruments -
Jenny Wiley Dulcimers
Jenny Wiley offers five different styles of dulcimers. The Mountain or Appalachian dulcimer is one of the easiest of all stringed instruments to play. The Six String Dulcimer is 36" long and has two .022 wound strings, two .012 drone strings, and two .012 melody strings. The Student Model is 30" long and is made from select pine, plywood, or veneer for the body. The Tear Drop is 34" long and is made from 100% hardwood. The Traditional is 34" long and is designed to sound like the dulcimers of old. The Hourglass is 34" long and is made from 100% hardwood.The "Dulcimer" is in the midst of a great revival. People around the world are buying, building and playing this unique and historic musical instrument.Website: Jenny Wiley Dulcimers -
Jerry Rockwell's Mountain Dulcimer Page
J.C. Rockwell's dulcimers are hand crafted in a variety of styles. The North Carolina Hourglass has a 26" string length and is typically made with a walnut fingerboard with Honduras mahogany sides and back. The Kentucky Shape Large Hourglass offers a 26.5", 29.75", or 28" string length and comes in a Baritone model that has a 29.75" string length. The Hollowbody Electric Dulcimer has a 28" string length and features a humbucking pickup complete with tone and volume knobs on the soundboard. The Yam is a small 3-string teardrop dulcimer with a 25" or 26" string length made from cherry wood for the sides, one piece back, and fingerboard and walnut wood for the top. The Large Deep Teardrop offers 26.5", 27, or 29.75" string lengths and is availabe in cherry or cherry with a walnut soundboard.Website: Jerry Rockwell's Mountain Dulcimer Page -
Modern Mountain Dulcimer
Modern Mountain offers five varieties of dulcimers. The Student model has a walnut body and spruce soundboard with 3 strings. The Red model has a walnut back and sides with either a Redwood or Western Red Cedar soundboard. The Appalachian model has a walnut body and resonator back with two soundboards: one SPruce and one Palonia. The DREAM has a walnut top, sides, and back with a low density bottom soundboard. The Bass/Baritone model has an all solid Walnut body.Website: Modern Mountain Dulcimer -
Olympia Dulcimer Company
Olympia Dulcimer offers three varieties of dulcimers. The Walkabout features a 20.75" scale length and is available with Figured Maple or Honduras Mahogany body woods with a Sitka spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, and graphite reinforced mahogany neck. The Electric Walkabout features a 20.75" or 22.00" scale length and has a solid Honduras Mahogany body with a mini lipstick-tube pickup. The Bass Walkabout has a scale length of 25" and is available with Figured Maple or Honduras Mahogany body woods with a Sitka spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, and graphite reinforced mahogany neck.Website: Olympia Dulcimer Company -
Ron Ewing Dulcimers
Ron Ewing offers hand crafted dulcimers. His instruments include the 26" SL Walnut and Cedar Hourglass, 26" SL Walnut and Cedar Aorell, Cherry and Cedar Teardrop, and Cherry, Spruce, and Zebriano Tearell Baritone models.Website: Ron Ewing Dulcimers -
Ron Gibson Mountain Dulcimers
Ron Gibson offers unique handcrafted dulcimers. These instruments are made from Birdseye Maple, Curly Maple, Quilted Maple, Fiddleback Maple, Walnut, Cherry, Poplar, and Aromatic Red Cedar tonewoods.Website: Ron Gibson Mountain Dulcimers -
Smoky Mountain Dulcimers
Smoky Mountain dulcimers are offered in mountain lap and "Masterworks" hammer varieties. Mountain lap style dulcimers include the Teardrop with walnut, spruce, cypress, hemlock, and western or red cedar top woods, the Upgrade which is the Teardrop shape with a design sound hole, the Smoky Ridge with a slimmer style hourglass shape of different hardwoods, and the Professional which has a solid wood hourglass design with custom sound hole designs. The Hammered dulcimers include the 15/14 Full Size and the 16/15 Ultralight.Website: Smoky Mountain Dulcimers -
Steve Parks Music
Steve Parks's Mountain Dulcimers come in several models, all made from spruce, walnut, cherry, and curly of birdseye maple woods. The Small Hourglass is a relatively smaller dulcumer with bookmatched top and back woods that also comes in a teardrop shape. The Fancy Small Teardrop or Hourglass features a violin-style lip around the body with a 24" scale length. The Concert Grand has a hourglass deisgn with a bone saddle and nut. The Custom Concert Grand offers the Concert Grand with a fully carved scroll with the options for fret position markers, various soundholes, and planetary geared tuning machines.Website: Steve Parks Music -
Warren A May Dulcimers
Warren A. May hand crafts his dulcimers from Black Walnut, Cherry, or Poplar solid woods. His Standard Hourglass model offers either f- or heart shaped sound holes. The Wide Hourglass model offers hummingbirg, vine, or natural knotholes. The Hourdrop model comes in walnut or cherry with hummingbird or vine, and natural knotholes. The Contemporary model comes in cherry with a butternut top, Grover tuners, and 6 1/2 frets.Website: Warren A May Dulcimers -
Prussia Valley Dulcimer
Prussia Valley dulcimers come standard with 2" deep boxes, 6 1/2 and 13 1/2 frets, crying heart sound holes, and lacquered finishes with oiled fret boards. They offer cherry, walnut, curly maple, and mahogany body woods and western red cedar, sitka spruce, redwood, sassafras, poplar, and butternut soundboard woods. For models, they offer teardrops, hourglasses, baritone hourglasses, hourglass false bottoms, and tenor hourglasses.Website: Prussia Valley Dulcimer