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 musicmanning@DELETE THIShotmail.com - Tim Manning makes hammered dulcimers and cimbaloms, and does custom and restoration work, as well as making other instruments. Tim tells us that the Charlie Winston Band used one of his instruments on their album HOBO, which has been No2 in the French Album Charts.
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.
West Coast Harps
1722 Carrick Street
VICTORIA BC V8R 2M2
CANADA
250.598.6679 [Victoria, International]
1.877.598.6679 [Canada - Toll Free] - Canada's largest online harp retailer. Also the "home base" for Canadian harper Alison Vardy.