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
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 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.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
Simerman Dulcimer:
Simerman offers three models of hand crafted dulcimers. The Performance dulcimer features a floating bridge design, large sound box, scalloped fretboard, double back, and premium tonewoods. The Artisan dulcimer has a rosewood fret board overlay and mother of pearl dot inlays. The Travel dulciemr is about 1/3 smaller in body than a traditional dulcimer and are ideal for travellers, children, or smaller framed people.Website:Simerman Dulcimer
BonnieCarol.com:
Bonnie Carol dulcimers are unique and hand crafted of solid wood. Walnut, quilted or straight grain cherry, curly, bird's eye, or quilted maple, zebra wood, and Oregon Myrtlewood are used in the construction of these instruments. They also feature Schaller geared tuners, 6 1/2 and 13 1/2 frets, melody strings, and heart soundholes.Website:BonnieCarol.com
Sam Rizzetta Dulcimers:
Sam Rizzetta offers hand crafted hammered dulcimers. His models include the Mini, a 4/13/12, 33"x14"x4" instrument and the Compact, a 8/16/15, 39"x17"x4" instrument with carbon fiber chassis and sealed interior, all wood unsealed interior, or carbon and sealed options. He also offers the Standard, a 8/16/15, 45"x20"x5" instrument with carbon chassis, redwood top, and hardwood sides, the Extended Range, a 8/19/18, 49"x24"x5" instrument with carbon frame, carbon chasses and sealed interior, or all wood unsealed interior options, and the Piano Dulcimer, a 6/16/6 or 9/16/9, 45"x20"x5" instrument.Website:Sam Rizzetta Dulcimers
McSpadden Mountain Dulcimers:
McSpadden dulcimers are built with a wide variety of options. You can choose between standard, ginger, and baritone sizes, hourglass an teardrop shapes, and walnut, spruce, redwood, or cherry bodies and tops.Website:McSpadden Mountain Dulcimers
Snyder's Dusty Dulcimers:
Snyder's Dusty Dulcimers offer inexpensive and simple hammered dulcimers. Models include 12/11 and 15/14 with maple pinblocks, bridges, and floating soundboards with options of birch, mahogany, or spruce for the wood of the soundboard.Website:Snyder's Dusty Dulcimers
Black Mountain Dulcimers:
Black Mountain Dulcimers uses spruce, redwood, mahogany, cherry, and walnut woods in the construction of their instruments. They offer a student, standard, jumbo, electric, and paper tune models.Website:Black Mountain Dulcimers
David's Dulcimers:
David's Dulcimers offers hammered and mountain dulcimers. Hammered dulcimer varieties include the Concert Grand (52" by 22" by 4", western red cedar, redwood, and stika spruce soundboards, maple, walnut, cherry or ash end rails and sides, and laminated hard maple piano pin-blocks), the Bill Spence Edition (western red cedar, redwood, and stika spruce soundboards, laminated hard maple piano pin-blocks, and a weight of 18 pounds), and the Spinet (maple, walnut, cherry or ash back and sides, birch and mahogany soundboards, and hard maple piano pin-blocks). Their mountain dulcimers come in walnut, cherry, or maple with the option for spruce or redwood soundboards and hourglass or teardrop models.Website:David's Dulcimers
McCafferty Dulcimers:
Mccafferty Dulcimers offers three styles. The Hourglass body comes in red spruce, koa, maple, redwood, claro walnut, spanish cedar, mesquite, cherry, and quilted maple woods. The Baritone body comes in redwood, cherry, claro walnut, and cherry woods. The Short Box body comes in quartersawn sycamore, walnut, spanish cedar, cherry, and rosewood woods.Website:McCafferty Dulcimers
Hand Crafted Dulcimers:
Hand Crafted Dulcimers offers a line of mountain dulcimers. You can choose from teardrop, hourglass, courting, and baritone body shapes and walnut, cherry, spanish cedar, butternut, catalpa, sassafras, bird's eye maple, curly maple, zebra wood, and bubinga woods.Website:Hand Crafted Dulcimers
H & R Dulcimers:
H & R Dulcimers offers 11/10 and 17/16 hammered dulcimers with oak, maple, or birch rails, butternut, cedar, redwood, or spruce soundboard, maple or birch pinblocks, baltic birch back, and Delrin bridge position markers.Website:H & R Dulcimers
Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments:
The Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments offers Folkcraft and McSpadden mountain dulcimers and Dusty Strings and Rick Thum hammered dulcimers. Both Folkcraft and McSpadden dulcimers come in teardrop, hourglass, and soprano shapes with walnut or cherry bodies. Dusty String dulcimers feature a 12/11 configuration, mahogany bridges, cherry wood rails, and Finnish birch tops and backs. Rick Thum dulcimers offer 13/12, 17/17, and 12/11 configurations, mahogany or birch tops and maple and walnut frames.Website:Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments
Steve Wise Long Neck Dulcimers:
Steve Wise manufactures the long neck dulcimer.The longneck dulcimer was created in collaboration with Austin musician Jane Gillman. She wanted to play her lap dulcimer like a guitar, standing up, with a strap. They eventually abandoned the dulcimer shape altogether, and came up with something that looks like a small Irish bouzouki, but is fretted like a lap dulcimer. They have tried to keep the lap dulcimer sound as much as possible by stringing it lightly. This instrument enables the dulcimer player to be heard in a band, but retains that sweetness and simplicity , a secret that only dulcimer lovers know. with Steve Wise, there are no rules and future designs could go anywhere.Website:Steve Wise Long Neck 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