The Kitchen Musician has not personally visited all of the stores, sources and people in this list, and, while we try to keep the list and the links up to date, we can't guarantee it. Also, we have not tried all the products from all the places listed; you will have to do that yourself.
Gillian
Alcock
25 Woodgate Street
Farrer, ACT 2607
Australia
Phone +61 2 6286 3872 - "Making dulcimers in Australia",
and dulcimers from several traditions, including portable cimbaloms,
baroque style salterio, santurs, sandouris as well as your "standard"
dulcimer. Gillian also records and tours and has a CD and book
available (e-mail
for info), as well as carrying other dulcimer books. Her website
is well worth a visit.
Diabolus
The Diabolus workshop specializes in early instruments, dulcimers
among them. Some of the others include Hurdy-gurdies, Symphonies
and Organistra; Renaissance Guitars; Spanish Vihuelas; Citterns;
Gitterns; Citoles and Psalteries. Check the website for wonderful
historical notes and performance information. It's also available
in Elizabethan English
Early
Music Shop
38 Manningham Lane,
Bradford, BD1 3EA
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1274 393753 Fax: +44 (0)1274 393516
Hammered dulcimers and dulcimer kits, and other instruments, including
krumhorns. Dulcimers by Forbes of Scotland, including a rectangular
15th Century reproduction dulcimer.
George's
Music
1769 South Nicholson
Prince George, British Columbia
Canada V2N 1V7
(604) 562-7152 Fax: (604) 562-6919 Toll Free:1-800-665-9448
Various instruments, including harps and bagpipes, lots of stuff
for pipers.
Hobgoblin
Music
Major well equipped folk music store with a wide variety of instrumentsnd
books.
Hobgoblin's
US Order Site at Stoneyend and Here, Inc.
John
McCutcheon recordings and hammer dulcimer instruction
materials - Hammered Dulcimer stuff WWW Site
Tobias
Jenny
Within 10 miles of the crossing of 120° W and 53° N
British Columbia, Canada - Dulcimer playing concert musician and
composer Tobias Jenny's website - recordings and tour information.
Moore, Jem
Hammered dulcimist Jem Moore's site includes ordering info on
his recordings as well as his Clark Kent identity. Check his recordings
page for samples.
Music
Magic
Bristol UK
44 0117 942 7976 E-Mail music.magic@virgin.net - Tim Manning makes
hammered dulcimers, and does custom and restoration work, as well
as making other instruments. Tim tells us that he recently sold
one of his instruments to Peter Gabriel. Watch for another dulcimer
sighting.
Musik Hug
Limmatquai 28-30
8001 Zurich, Switzerland
41 1 251 68 50 - The music book department includes wonderful
things like instruction books for cimbalom in Hungarian and German,
books for hackbrett and many other hard to find books. Bring your
credit card and your Swiss bank account number.
Sheet
Music Plus
A massive on-line sheet music cyberspace store for
all kinds of sheet music and books, including dulcimer, fiddle,
banjo, guitar, piano. Instruction books as well as tunes, and
from rare Playford facsimile copies to pop. Some titles are discounted.
Collection is so large that there is a web search engine. Also
has music software, the largest collection of guitar strings I
have seen, and other stuff. Does secure credit card orders, phone,
etc.