Description

Features:

• Strings: 4 (2 melody, 1 middle, 1 bass)

• Hourglass-shaped body

• Vaulted fretboard for enhanced sound projection

• Spruce soundboard with cream-colored, straight-grained finish

• Right-angle tuners with a 14:1 ratio

• Celtic knotwork sound holes

As one of our most recent additions to our MID-EAST Mountain Dulcimer line, the Grace model boasts numerous exceptional features. Its vaulted fretboard design reduces weight, resulting in increased soundboard vibration and superior sound quality. The hourglass shape of the body, neck, nut, bridge, and fretboard is crafted from solid ROSEWOOD. The tailpiece is adorned with a silver crown, and the spruce soundboard features a charming ROSEWOOD skirt design on both ends, complemented by four knotwork openings.

This model also incorporates four mechanical geared right-angle tuners with a 14:1 ratio, accommodating four strings: two melody strings, one middle string, and one bass drone string. While various tunings are compatible, we recommend the traditional DAD method for ease of play.

Traditionally, mountain dulcimers employed three strings, evenly spaced: a melody string, a middle string, and a bass string. Later developments introduced a four-string dulcimer by altering the string spacing and doubling the melody string. This modification enhanced the volume of the melody line. Contemporary dulcimers, such as the Grace model, offer additional notches on the nut, enabling personalized string patterns. Notably, the interior doubled melody string can be completely removed to restore the traditional three-string configuration. Alternatively, the interior melody string and the middle string can be shifted over one notch to achieve equal spacing between all four strings.

Specifications:

• Neck at Nut: 1.25 inches in width

• Neck at Body Joint: 1.25 inches in width

• Nut: 1.25 inches in width, crafted from ROSEWOOD

• Scale Length: 25.5 inches

• Four tuning pegs/levers

• 18 metal frets (including 6 1/2 and 13 1/2 frets)