MID-EAST MOUNTAIN DULCIMER 5-STRINGS CUTAWAY F-HOLES SCROLLED PEGBOX
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The Cutaway Dulcimer is a traditional mountain dulcimer with a unique design. It features a narrow upper bout, allowing guitar-style fingering, and a vaulted fretboard for enhanced responsiveness. The soundboard is crafted from spruce, giving it a warm and resonant tone.
The dulcimer’s scroll-carved peghead incorporates four tuners, providing a 4:1 tuning ratio. This tuner system allows for a wide range of tunings, with the traditional DAD tuning being recommended for ease of play.
The fretboard is made of rosewood and features arches that allow for free space between the soundboard and the fretboard. This design enhances the dulcimer’s sound quality.
Traditionally, mountain dulcimers had three strings: a melody string, a middle string, and a bass string. Later developments resulted in the creation of a four-string dulcimer by altering the string spacing and doubling the melody string. This modification increased the volume of the melody line. Contemporary dulcimers, including the Cutaway Dulcimer, offer additional notches on the nut, allowing for more personalized string patterns. The inside doubled melody string can be removed entirely to revert to the traditional three-string configuration. Alternatively, the inside melody string and the middle string can be moved over one notch to create equal spacing between all four strings.