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Folkcraft® Mountain Dulcimer Hardware Kit, Design Your Own

Item Number 7112361

Regular price $0.00 (Plus additional options, if added)
 
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Here's everything you need to build your own mountain dulcimer (everything except the wood parts!). This is one easy-to-buy kit of dulcimer hardware. We've put together a package that includes a set of four tuning machines (tuning gears) enough fret wire for a complete instrument, a set of anchor pins to hold the strings, a set of strings, and two pieces of bridge/nut stock. With Folkcraft dulcimer kits, making your own dulcimer is satisfying, relaxing, and rewarding. With our hardware package, you don't have any reason to delay getting started!

We would recommend the open-gear tuners for use with a scroll head dulcimer, and the closed-gear tuners for use with a flat head dulcimer. The anchor pins we include with our customized dulcimer hardware kits are perfect for use with ball end strings, but you can choose loop end (they sound the same!) if that's what you prefer.

The photograph we show here shows our bone-colored tuners and ball-end strings. We'll be sure to ship whatever tuners, nuts/bridges, and strings that you choose. If you add the dulcimer case to your order, we'll include our dulcimer soft case, item number 2851910 (the same made-in-the-USA case we include with the instruments we build here in the Folkcraft shop).

Customer Reviews

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Raymond Call
Machine heads, Open gear, Bone-colored button,4 pack

The package of machine heads include the necessary tiny mounting screws as well as the decorative chrome colored grommets. The grommets measure at about 5/16 inch in diameter so I used a letter 'O' drill bit to make the mounting holes. Instead of pounding them into position I used a 'C' Clamp and pressed them into the holes. The pilot holes for the screws that hold the machine heads in place were drilled with a #50 drill making them easy to screw into place using a small Phillips head screwdriver - i was concerned about stripping the slot for the screwdriver if the pilot hole was too small. As I recall, the description for the set of four mentions that 2 right and 2 left machines are included and such was the case thus allowing all four to be turned in the same rotational direction to adjust string tension no matter which side of the peg head they are mounted on. Very nice and smooth to use. So far they hold the tension accurately from day to day.

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Bill Hunicke
Replaced old tuners (Machine Heads) with this open gear four pack.

I replaced the old worn tuners with these new tuners and they worked just fine.

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Customer
Dulcimer Parts

Great parts

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Bill Hunicke
NewTuners(MachineHeads)for Dulcimer

I replaced the old worn tuners (Machine Heads) on my Mountain Dulcimer with the Folkcraft tuners. They work great.

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Roger Tanis
Machine heads open gear

The machine heads were easy to install and worked perfectly. I should have installed them sooner. It was a perfect choise.