This is such a neat story!!!!!! The wood laying on your property and to see what you have created ….. and I love the sound - so sweet!!! I am so glad to have stumbled on this video! Thank you 🎶👏🏻
Scott, this is fantastic. I admire you for this effort and all you musical skills and capabilities. I would have never know 60 years plus ago that my neighborhood friend would become a UA-cam sensation. Keep on making the music. Love it. Jim
I was surprised too! I expect wood would sound better but the MDF does pretty well. I had in mind the MDF would be temporary but I don't see the need to change it at this point.
Hello, I find your instrument very original and above all a beautiful sound. I would really like to be inspired by it. Would you be kind enough to tell me the length of the scale and the note of each open string and for that I say a big thank you, it's very pretty
I'm afraid it can't be replicated. I've used up all the cypress wood and finding those branches that make the table legs was just pure luck. I won't be able to find even one more, let alone 4. 🙂
Very nice build. This highlights the simplicity of a dulcimer, there are very few hard and fast rules to its construction. Music made at home and played at home.
I enjoyed your video. There are time I walk down to our lake and can take one of my instruments along with me from a native flute to a guitar, Uke, Madolin, or one of my home made Dulcimers. I don't like taking my lap Steels down to the lake, but living only a couple of city blocks away from the lake I can play one of my lap steels and still be heard down by the lake side and if the conditions are right, can also be heard across the lake as well. It seems that nothing sounds better when musical sounds travel across a lake in the evening hours during the summer months. I can truly understand why you play your dulcimer down by the swamp and out in the open where the birds and animals can hear you and possibly sing along with you. I hope I relax people that live around our small lake in the evening hours. The sound of a soft played tune can relax just about anybody after a hard day's work.
A great leap of the imagination and a truly superb result. Somehow the wood you made it from seems to resonate with the surroundings. A wonderful ending to a beautiful story of a new interpretation - a swamp dulcimer! Hats off to you Scott!
Thanks James! The tree it was made from grew only a couple hundred feet from where the dulcimer is located - so there might be something to your theory!
Agreed. I sacrificed volume for strength. The neck is the strongest part of a dulcimer but the body does help a little to keep the neck from bowing. However, this neck is not glued down so the body does not help. So I made the neck 1/4 inch thicker.
@@swc59 Now i understand. It's right. As another variant you can glue the neck and turn it over with the soundboard. Of course, if the soundboard springs do not interfere with the lid.
That's a possibility and an interesting idea. My concern is that it is the humidity that ruins the strings. And I think it would be difficult to seal the box. Not impossible though, so maybe.....
Very cool!
That is just so amazingly beautiful! Im blown away!!!!!
Thanks. Was good luck that I stumbled (literally) over that cypress tree. It's beautiful wood!
Beautiful instrument and a lovely voice. Well done!
This is such a neat story!!!!!! The wood laying on your property and to see what you have created ….. and I love the sound - so sweet!!!
I am so glad to have stumbled on this video! Thank you 🎶👏🏻
Thank -YOU!
Is this Grreen Swamp in Florida? We flew over Green Swamp a few years back in our Cessna 172.
Yes, Florida's Green Swamp
Well friend, it's a lovely thing you've made. Cheers!
Thanks!
Clever, clever instrument. Nice voice, too. Both of you.
Many thanks!
A suitable Scottish air for your swamp 😀
That is a nice video, a nice dulcimer, and a nice song too!
Scott, this is fantastic. I admire you for this effort and all you musical skills and capabilities. I would have never know 60 years plus ago that my neighborhood friend would become a UA-cam sensation. Keep on making the music. Love it. Jim
I've got a lot more time for it these days 😉
I gonna build one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice! I love it!
Thanks!
Very impressive!
Lovely..... so simple and unique!!!!! I just started learning to play on a dulcimer. Now I want a stick dulcimer. Thanks so much for posting
Thanks! I hope your dulcimer brings you as much joy as mine brings me!
Amazing! I need to build myself one of those so I don't need to worry about my nice dulcimer going false or rusty in the Florida humidity.
Very impressive!
Ingenious 🎼
Thanks!
Hello from the Prairie Dulcimer Club, Kansas City area.
Hello, John!
Very clever Scott. Nice work
Wonderful! But i have to wonder--MDF? I can't believe that resonates at all. Maybe I'm wrong?
I was surprised too! I expect wood would sound better but the MDF does pretty well. I had in mind the MDF would be temporary but I don't see the need to change it at this point.
Hello, I find your instrument very original and above all a beautiful sound. I would really like to be inspired by it.
Would you be kind enough to tell me the length of the scale and the note of each open string and for that I say a big thank you, it's very pretty
Thanks. Scale length is 27 inches. Tuned to DAAA.
I love your instrument! It sounds beautiful, nice singing too. Could you make one for someone if you got paid? Cynthia
I'm afraid it can't be replicated. I've used up all the cypress wood and finding those branches that make the table legs was just pure luck. I won't be able to find even one more, let alone 4. 🙂
Very nice build. This highlights the simplicity of a dulcimer, there are very few hard and fast rules to its construction. Music made at home and played at home.
Yes - that is why I enjoy it so much!
very cool idea
Thanks!
I enjoyed your video. There are time I walk down to our lake and can take one of my instruments along with me from a native flute to a guitar, Uke, Madolin, or one of my home made Dulcimers. I don't like taking my lap Steels down to the lake, but living only a couple of city blocks away from the lake I can play one of my lap steels and still be heard down by the lake side and if the conditions are right, can also be heard across the lake as well. It seems that nothing sounds better when musical sounds travel across a lake in the evening hours during the summer months. I can truly understand why you play your dulcimer down by the swamp and out in the open where the birds and animals can hear you and possibly sing along with you. I hope I relax people that live around our small lake in the evening hours. The sound of a soft played tune can relax just about anybody after a hard day's work.
Nothing I can add to that. You've captured it perfectly 🙂
Cool!
Thanks!
Well that's just awesome!! Thank you for sharing that.
Thank you!
A great leap of the imagination and a truly superb result. Somehow the wood you made it from seems to resonate with the surroundings. A wonderful ending to a beautiful story of a new interpretation - a swamp dulcimer! Hats off to you Scott!
Thanks James! The tree it was made from grew only a couple hundred feet from where the dulcimer is located - so there might be something to your theory!
Wow… that song at the end made me tear up. You have a great voice and the instrument sounds wonderful.
Thanks so much!
King size dulcimer! Nice sound.
But i think. that neck too massive and strings vibrations poorly transmitted to the soundboard.
Agreed. I sacrificed volume for strength. The neck is the strongest part of a dulcimer but the body does help a little to keep the neck from bowing. However, this neck is not glued down so the body does not help. So I made the neck 1/4 inch thicker.
@@swc59 Now i understand. It's right.
As another variant you can glue the neck and turn it over with the soundboard. Of course, if the soundboard springs do not interfere with the lid.
That's a possibility and an interesting idea. My concern is that it is the humidity that ruins the strings. And I think it would be difficult to seal the box. Not impossible though, so maybe.....
That's just great. So innovative.
Wonderful idea and very nicely done!
Thanks!