I occasionally get asked to build unusual musical instruments.  I’m always up for a challenge and when local musician Ed Mikenas...

After having built a number of aspects of Indian Santoors, I finally got a commission to build a complete instrument based on a...

📷 Years ago Randy Machany, dulcimer player with the group No Strings Attached, created what became the first attempt at creating a...

📷 A long time customer who plays one of Linear Chromatic Hammered Dulcimers in his band The Botanist requested I make him an electric...

Working with Steve Shmania in 1998, we brought to life the first Linear Chromatic; a hammered dulcimer which gave players a more logical...

📷 I’m amazed at the plethora of iPad apps available for musicians.  This post is biased towards the iPad since one I own one, and two...

📷 Lately I’ve become increasingly interested in other instruments in the worldwide dulcimer family so when Dipu Deshmukh (an...

Garret our youngest son has taken a shine to the West of late so we have been doing some traveling out in that direction over the last...

📷I have always been fascinated by the Chinese yangqin. In the world of trapezoidal instruments struck by “hammers”, the contemporary...

Making unique artistic sound hole images has always been integral to the overall design of my hammered dulcimers. My first sound hole...

📷 Although I don’t sell a lot of them, I offer another version of the hammered dulcimer, the tsimbl. This fully chromatic instrument is...

📷I make three different sizes of bowed psalteries, the threeI make three different sizes of bowed psalteries, the three octave Baritone,...

As we approach the heating season, I’ll throw out my usual advice about instrument care. Keep the humidity up! Wood in an instrument...

📷 Frank Cone needed a small lightweight hammered dulcimer in a range suitable for playing Medieval or Renaissance music. We came up with...