Doug Berch

Since I make dulcimers primarily using hand tools almost everything takes place on the bench. The rest of my small shop contains mostly tools and wood that get used on the bench or stuff that is drying or curing between visits to the bench. Here are a bunch of pictures I took during the past few months of various [...]

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I have mentioned before that my shop is very small, what realtors would describe as “cozy.” I have enough room to comfortably work on three dulcimers at a time during the primary steps of construction. As the dulcimers come closer to completion I work on each one individually until it is time for the finishing [...]

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My old dulci-buddy (is that a new word?) Lois Hornbostel edits DulcimerSessions.com, a bi-monthly blog about all things dulcimer. I am delighted to have my arrangement of “Texas” featured. The article includes mountain dulcimer tablature, standard notation for hammered dulcimer or other instruments and an mp3 of “Texas” from my latest mountain dulcimer CD, “Songs [...]

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Balis Ritchie Loraine Wyman Jethro Amburgey Bristol Taylor Balis Ritchie was Jean Ritchie’s father. Loraine Wyman collected Appalachian and Canadian folk songs in the early 20th century. Jethro Amburgey was a prolific and influential dulcimer maker. Bristol Taylor was a dulcimer maker, farmer and poet. I have not found any significant references to him or [...]

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