Folkcraft Instruments has been crafting handmade mountain dulcimers since 1968. We've been providing the best dulcimers, plus the dulcimer cases, tab books, dulcimer string sets, and everything else a mountain dulcimer player needs. We even provide dulcimer parts - machine heads and wood parts - for builders of all skill levels. We're happy to build a custom mountain dulcimer for you, make you a custom instrument case, or make you a custom string set. All of our dulcimers are handmade in the USA.
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Love these music books way back when and still do today.
It was a miracle. I needed 10 copies of this book immediately and I caught Richard as he was moving out of his current office. He said he could get them to to me. AND HE DID. Ten gorgeous, spiral bound copies arrived early. Thank you, Richard.
I have been building dulcimers for decades and have purchased most of the hardware for the instruments from Folkcraft due to the quality of the parts, reasonable price, and the excellent customer service. Highly recommend!
I bought my walnut FolkCraft dulcimer during a period in time that know must have been a challenging time for Richard and his team. They were slap in the middle of the move from IN to MI. Regardless of the challenges a move like this must have presented he and his team were always there to offer the best customer experience. At some point during this overall process of preparing my dulcimer, a dulcimer of the wrong VSL was shipped. When I made Richard aware of the issue, again, he extended the best customer care anyone could ask for and replaced this instrument and he corrected this error quickly. I will always be returning to FolkCraft every opportunity I have to buy another one of their fine crafted instruments. I think the next one I buy will be a California style body with an ebony fretboard. I had an opportunity to play one recently, and I love the feel of the ebony and rich tone of the larger CA body.
Steve Eulberg - First 50 Songs You Should Play On Mountain Dulcimer
There are not many places for a "lay musician" to find some of the more esoteric parts for harps and hammered dulcimers. Folkcraft had exactly what I needed. I'll definitely be back for help with repairs and maintenance of my dulcimers. Thank you.!
This is an outstanding manual for TablEdit focused on dulcimer. The software itself has some quirks and how to do some things is not the least bit transparent but the examples provided in this book are relevant and helpful. This book and the software are two of the best purchases I have made.
These tuners perform well, look good and are very reasonably priced
I recently got an embroidered case for my Black Mointain kit Dulcimer I got in 1975! The case is personalized with my nickname and the quality of materials is high , from the padding to zippers ! It is a a great bag and kudos to the shipping crew for fulfilling my order in a timely fashion!
The picks are exactly as advertised and delivered quickly.
Great book but definitely designed for intermediate or advanced players. Great selection of songs.
My second set of these machine heads for my two dulcimer builds. They were both excellent quality and worked great. Thanks for a quality product and fast shipping!!
Found the original LMI guitar plans. Great communication and fast shipping. Thanks !
This Strap is easy to use. It makes me feel secure that my dulcimer won't slip off my lap.
This book has a wide range of lullabies from all over the world and even has a few in different tunings. As always, Joe's tab is easy to read and very doable. This is exactly what I was looking for and more!
