Dulcimer Links of All Types

The following set of web links is listed for your information and enjoyment. Please tell us about other links that could be added to this list. We appreciate your comments.

Builders of Appalachian Dulcimers:
Bear Meadow
Black Mountain Instruments
Mike Clemmer in Townsend, TN
Cripple Creek Dulcimers
J. B. Keith Dulcimers
McSpadden Dulcimers
Bill Taylor Dulcimers

Builders of Hammered Dulcimers:
Jerry Read Smith Dulcimers
Nicholas Blanton Dulcimers
Master Works (Russell Cook)
James Jones Dulcimers
Dusty Strings

Groups:
Doofus Home Page
Heartstrings -- Volunteer Group (local) who play mainly traditional stringed instruments, such as guitar, fiddle, mountain dulcimer, autoharp, and hammered dulcimer

Miscellaneous:
Bear Meadow Links to Dulcimer Resources -- fine links
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area -- a place where the KADC performs in the spring and fall
Dulcimer Players News
History of the Mountain Dulcimer
Home Recording -- "for anyone interested in recording and mixing their own music CDs and MP3s in their own home"
Jerry Rockwell's Moutain Dulcimer Page
Lead Belly -- Thirty-one of Lead Belly's best songs
Simple Sounds -- instruments, books, accessories, lots of other stuff
The Sweet Music Index
Everything Dulcimer web site
TablEdit Tablature Editor -- program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments

Music Sources:
Elderly Instruments -- Hammered Dulcimer
Elderly Instruments -- Lap Dulcimer
Folk Song MIDI Files
Mel Bay -- Hammered & Mountain Dulcimer music books
Wood,Wind & Wire

Music Theory:
Basic Music Theory -- Check out the classy home page
The nature of a musical sound

Players/Performers:
Larkin Bryant Cohen
Jean Ritchie
Lee Rowe
Maureen Sellers
Rick Thum
Thomasina
Pam Weeks
Terry Lewis
Stephen Seifert
Ken Kolodner
Tull Glazener
Guy George
Linda Brockington

Hammered Dulcimer Instructors:
Daryl Yearwood, Clinton, TN

Bill TaylorEmma's Song, courtesy of Bill Taylor on dulcimer and daughter, Emma Taylor, on flute.

For other interesting dulcimer links, check out the Dulcimer Web Ring near the bottom of our home page.