Music Stores With Dulcimers, Dulcimer Records
and /or
Dulcimer Books And Other Stuff

Home | Links | Books | Buying a Dulcimer
Alpha List | Geo List

This is a long alphabetical listing of folk stores and sources for hammered dulcimers, accessories, books, CDs and related materials. There is also a geographic listing. 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.

Alphabetical List - Stores and Sources
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

25 Woodgate Street
Farrer, ACT 2607
Australia
Phone - "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 (for info), as well as carrying other dulcimer books. Her website is well worth a visit.

Box 307, Wormer Rd
Voorheesville NY 12186
518/ - Fax 518/ - Somewhat scled back, but still the place for recordings of Bill Spence and Fennig's All Stars, and recordings on the Front Hall label. E-mail:

10301 Comanche NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
- A folk music shop in New Mexico. McSpadden mountain dulcimers, Masterworks and Dusty Strings hammered dulcimers, and psalteries,folk harps, etc. Apple Mountain has classes ,workshops, concerts, and a monthly dulcimer club and harp circle

1504 Frontier Drive
Arlington, Texas 76012
817/ - Texas dulcimer builder with a nice website Ardie also has a out on building a hammered dulcimer..

820 Dennis Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20901 - Dulcimer Book "Hills of Erin", and influential hammered dulcimer recordings on Maggies Music label (see under "M")

Judi Morningstar's Dulcimer Books, and the person to contact about Ruffwater String Band and Just Friends, the Ruffwater Fake Book, and about Michigan dulcimer styles.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

Bob and Betty Kiogima
1079 Tinker Lane
Proctorville, Ohio 45669
Phone - - Makers of dulcimer hammers.

Cindy BakerA Noteworthy Case, Hammered dulcimer cases of padded cordura with industrial strength Velcro, and custom cases avaiilable, Formerly made by Peg Earl. Email

6466-A, E. 574th Road
Catoosa, OK, 74015   
- Maker of some really fine dulcimer hammers. Check out the website.

11 Center Street
Andover CT 06232
860/ - CDs and Books by Carrie Crompton and the Barolk Folk. "Barolk Folk" is their disctinctive blends of Early and Traditional Music. See the"World of Dulcimer Books" page for book titles.

PO Box 33 624 Sixth St
Boonville MO 65233
- CDs and tapes by Missouri dulcimist/musician duo, including albums of songs from the Civil war west of the Mississippi.

Ohio hammered dulcimer player Tina Bergmann has Four CDs and Books 1 and 2 "A Collection of Tunes for the Hammered Dulcimer" Order from the Website. http://www.allroadsleadhome.com/

1500 E. 5th Street
Dayton OH
937/ - Violins, fiddles, violas, cellos and repairs. Has some dulcimer recordings, though here they are called "fiddle recordings with dulcimers".

- Dwain Wilder's award winning website, and information on Appalachian Dulcimers and accesories. If you are even remotely interested in Appalachian dulcimers, go here.

PO Box 1473
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
- Maker of well known hammered dulcimers and collaborator with Sam Rizzetta. Nick Blanton also authored a two-part series on history of the hammered dulcimer for .


17828 Chatsworth St. @ Zelzah
Granada Hills, CA 91344
818/ - Primarily Bluegrass, banjos and guitars, etc. plus books.


280 Seventh Ave (at the corner of Main Street)
Ouray, CO 81427
or Fax or e mail: - insturments, music books and scores for recorder, lute, guitar, hammered dulcimer, wooden and plastic recorders, viols and more.

Boulding, Philip and Pam - see Magical Strings

P.O. Box 50127
Parks, AZ, USA 86018
Philip and Laurel StrongMuehl perform and teach, and carry a good selection of Chris Foss SongBird dulcimers. Well done website with lots of pictures and Arizona duclimer news.

40 Sand Road
New Britain Pa. 18944
- Hammered dulcimers, including Dusty Strings, and Masterworks and accessories, including hammers, cases, and stands. Also harps, banjos, guitars, fiddles and other stringed instruments. Manufactures Buck Musical Instrument Products.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

Bristlecone Music
15 Sherwood Road
Nederland CO 80466
303/ - Dulcimers, recordings and performances by Bonnie Carol - lessons out near the Great Divide, and music and whitewater rafting tours. Plus the recording by the all woman group, the "Motherfolkers" E-mail to:


P.O. Box 35495.
Charlotte NC 28203
- Very large stock of (you guessed it) Celtic cassettes and CDs, also carries instruments, books and accessories.

43 York Street
Bay City MI 48708
- Clifford Atwater makes and sells various accessories, chair/carts, stools, stands, dusters for dulcimer players.

Michael Allen
5701 Stover Road
Ostrander OH 43061
740/ - makes and sells very nice hammered dulcimers, and sometimes performs with Kendra Ward and Bob Bence.

Collins, Mitzie - Dulcimist - See Sampler Records under S.

2629 Redwing Road, Suite 370
Fort Collins, CO 80526
Phone local or worldwide - Fax - Makers of padded, well insulated, weather tight soft cases and case covers for mountain dulcimers and hammered dulcimers, as well as other acoustic instruments.

Christina and Dennis Connell
7674 County Road 118
Carthage, MO 64836 - Dulcimer music and dulcimer hammers from Christina and Dennis Connell

Country String Shop
54 W. Main Street
Campbelltown, PA (Rt. 322)
717 / Dayspring Dulcimers and other instruments, books, and Bill Johnson's book and plans for dulcimer builders. Call Robert Cain for hours and directions.


P.O.Box 31
Lake Junaluska, NC 28745 - Craggy Mountain offers an inexpensive 9/8 backpacker dulcimer that is only 19" x 10" and weighs less than most laptop computers (4 pounds). It costs less than a laptop computer, too.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

Ooolitic Music
1111 E. Wylie
Bloomington, IN 47401
Studio & Fax email: - Recordings and scores, and more by multi-talented dulcimist Malcolm Dalglish, and his new organization, the Ooolites. Includes recordings by Metamora and the Banish Misfortune Album with Real Audio samples.

654 Acorn Lane
Bennington OK 74723
- Hammered Dulcimers by David Lindsey, plus accessories, recordings, etc. David's "Concert Grand " model is a 15/15 with three strings per course and a three octave range, measuring 55 x 22 x 4 (inches); and it includes a protective lid. Bill Spence, recently featured in Dulcimer Players News, plays a Grand. David also makes two other models, the "baby grand" and the "spinet."

Hammered Dulcimers and a book by Bill Johnson with detailed complete plans and blueprints on how to build a 15/14 hammered dulcimer. Dulcimers available at Country String Shop (under C above)

Different Strummer
909 West Armitage
Chicago IL 60614 - Music store for all kinds of folk music, lessons, books

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

Down Home Musical
325 Arapaho Lane
Cape Girardeau MO 63701
573/ - Handcrafted bowed psalteries, harps, dulcimers and lyres. Richard & patricia Krueger specialize in "stringed instruments of the Bible", and their bowed psalteries are works of art.

The Dulcimer
137 Windy Gap Road
Blowing Rock NC 28605 - Mini-HD, a briefcase sized 9/8 dulcimer

The Dulcimer Factory
155 E. Main Street
Fredericksburg, TX 78624
830/ - HDs and MDs, accessories. Tours?

Online store selling dulcimers, harps, lutes, bodhrans and many other instruments, including ethnic instruments from around the world, including (of course) shofars. There are also intereesting descriptive pages about many instruments which are well worth visiting, even if you are not shopping.

444 West 4th Street
Box 1005
Capitan NM
- Mountain dulcimers in New Mexico.


P.O. Box 2164
Winchester VA 22604
703/ Fax 703/ - premiere magazine for dulcimer players, hammered or lap. Published by Maddy MacNeil The same address works for Maddie's "Roots & Branches Music", Maddy MacNeil CDs and tapes, and her new Hammered Dulcimer Self Instruction book and Video.


3406 Fremont Ave North
Seattle WA 98103
- Toll-free: fax: - primarily (and in the hammered dulcimer trade, very well) known for their instruments, hammered dulcimers, and harps.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

- The "Bag Lady"
Peg's Hammered Dulcimer cases with gray Cordura cloth exterior, foam padding/insulation, and industrial strength Velcro closures that really work. are now being made by Cindy Baker dba Noteworthy Case


38 Manningham Lane,
Bradford, BD1 3EA
UK
Tel: Fax:
Hammered dulcimers and dulcimer kits, and other instruments, including krumhorns. Dulcimers by Forbes of Scotland, including a rectangular 15th Century reproduction dulcimer.

1100 N. Washington Ave
P.O. Box 14249
Lansing MI 48901
Showroom | mail order | fax - Massive folk store, with mail order operation so large they have separate catalogs for books, recordings, instruments and supplies and vintage acoustic and electric instruments. Web site includes listing of vintage instruments for sale. If you are looking for vintage instruments, check here, and at Gruhn's and Mandolin Brothers.

Dale Evans
208 1/2 E. Locust
Bloomington IL 61701
309/ - Dale builds dulcimers in central Illinois, and he also handles books and accessories

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

200 S. Main St.
Springboro, OH 45066
- McSpadden dulcimers, and Folkcraft and Backyard Music cardboard dulcimers for lesson students and first time mountain dulcimer buyers with a trade-up program on the cardboards. Also doumbeks, bodhrans and other folk percussion, lessons and more. In the "Olde Springboro" historic district.

20322 SR 33, Wapakoneta, OH  45895,
- Mainly known for Bluegrass instruments, fiddles, banjos and guitars, Vernon & Kitty McIntyre also have hammered and lap dulcimers, and host concerts and workshops. Home of Appalachian Grass.

105-F Montreat Road
Black Mountain, NC 28711
- Sort of around the corner from Jerry Read Smith in Black Mountain. Tom Fellenbaum specializes in mountain dulcimers and also builds guitars, bouzoukis and mandolins.

at Mountain Music
206 East F Street
Tehachapi, CA  93561
            Fax: - Carries a very large selection of Celtic Music Books for - primarily fiddle - and also for various instruments (including "keyed dulcimer" - the pianoforte, including many that are hard to find and facsimile copies of many that have been out of print for a century or so. Also carries recordings, including many hard to find Scottish, Irish and Cape Breton music recordings.

930 Alhambra Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95816
916/ - Bluegrass instruments, featuring Martin guitars and mandolins, Dobro guitars, etc.


P.O.Box 290632
San Francisco, CA 94128
- has a mail order recording catalog. Check out Glenn Morgan's hammered dulcimer albums


PO Box 302
Woodburn IN 46797
- Hammered and Mountain Dulcimers and Ukeleles and Psalteries and kits and parts and more.

Folk Craft Music
P.O. Box 1572
Wilmington VT 05363
802/ - Tapes, books, harp, mountain and hammered dulcimers

20 Yale Avenue
Claremont CA 91711
- Wide variety of instruments, including Dulcimers, Didgeridoos, Dumbeks, Djembes, and Drums...and that's just the Ds.


1034 Santa Barbara Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Fax: - Specializes in harps, but has other instruments, including HDs, as well.

2329 Curdes Ave
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
- have Hudson, Songbird (Chris Foss), and Dusty Strings hammered dulcimers and accessories including cases, stands, and a variety of hammers. They also have a very large selection of mountain dulcimers by at least 8 different builders at any given time. Many other folk instruments, harps, banjos, ethnic percussion, tinwhistles, native american and Irish flutes, and more. Many titles to choose from in instructional and music books as well as recordings. Teachers are available for hammered and mountain dulcimer, as well as autoharp. open Mon-Fri days and most Sat, mornings. Let them know you're coming to avoid conflicts with their lessons and performance schedule.

PO Box 200
Ruidoso, NM 88355
fax: - Email - Mickey Cochran's Folk of the Wood carries acoutic instruments. The large Folk of the Wood site has on-line music lessons, tips and techniques, etc. on a variety of acoustic instruments, among other features. Well worth a visit.

103 Wall Street SE
Roanoke, VA 24011
- Fax - Music store which primarily carries fretted instruments (guitars, mandolins, banjos, etc.) but also carried James Jones dulcimers (when they can get them). Wes Chappell of Indie Award winning dulcimer band No Strings Attached works there. Tell them Wes sent you. Tell Wes I sent you.

505 East Lincolnway
Valparaiso IN 46383
- Folk music stores with dulcimers, other instruments, books and teachers

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

1769 South Nicholson
Prince George, British Columbia
Canada V2N 1V7
Fax: Toll Free:
Various instruments, including harps and lots of stuff for bagpipers.

Dean Shostak Music
P.O. Box 465
Williamsburg, VA 23187 - Not a dulcimer store (which wouldn't fit in a post office box anyway), but a site for an even more rare instrument - the glass armonica, one of Benjamin Franklin's inventions. Home Page of musician Dean Shostak. Here you will find information about the glass armonica, concert dates, and recordings. Also RealAudio sample off Dean's new CD "Celtic Crystal"

1129 Root River Street
Chatfield MN 55923
507/ or - Chuck Whitcomb, a builder since the '70's, has Hammered dulcimers, hammered dulcimer kits, dulcimer stands and stand kits, books, hammers and other dulcimer accessories.


PO Box 87462
Gaithersburg MD 20886
E-Mail: - Roger Chen has announced that he is going out of the business of making dulcimers. The site is still active, and tools, wood, etc. for sale.

400 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
615/ Fax 615/ - In the "Other Stuff" category (as respects dulcimers) but your friends that play guitar, mandolin, etc. will want to check Gruhn and the website. One of the main vintage instrument sites I know.

Gryphon Stringed Instruments
211 Lambert Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94306
- I think of Gryphon as more of a guitar and banjo shop, but they have been reported to deal in dulcimers at times.

1 Lovells Court
Whittlesey, Peterborough
Cambridgeshire PE7 1BW United Kingdom
Landline: , Mobile: +44 (0) GTR is "guitar-only", but that means accoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars, and accessories. The website is at http://www.gtrmusic.co.uk

1401 Richmond Ave.
Houston TX 77006
713/ or - Various acoustic instruments, including dulcimers. e-mail:

Guitar Lessons Reviewed offers a DVD Guitar course with 20 Lesson DVDs and 5 jam along CDs, plus connections to JamPlay. More information is at
http://www.guitarlessonsreviewed.com/learn-and-master-guitar-review.html

143 Harvard SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(505)262-GAEL - Jean and Dan McDermott at Gypsy Wagon carry new and used hammered dulcimers, harps, fiddles, mandolins, guitars, pennywhistles and more. Gypsy Wagon has lessons on many instruments and has rental fiddles, hammered dulcimers, and mandolins available. There is also a jam and coffeehouse on Wednesdays.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

4N221 Ferson Creek Rd.
St. Charles, IL 60174
630/
Fax: 630/ - New website for hammered dulcimers by Bill Robinson and Ken Harris. Primarily H&R build two sizes (an 11/10 and a 17/16) using the original method of "floating" soundboard construction.

Ed Hale's Dulcimer Shop
3015 West 58th Street.....................404 North Cedar Street
North Little Rock AR 72218 ..........Little Rock AR 72205
501/ - Handrafted hammered dulcimers, books, lessons and performances by Ed Hale

P.O. Box 190
Annapolis MD 21012 - Performances, lectures and recordings of Colonial and Federal period music featuring hammered dulcimer, harpsichord, guitar, English guitar, mandolin, violin, flutes, pianoforte, organ, and voices, including one album digitally digitally recorded in the best-sounding rooms of six colonial sites in Annapolis.


 920 State Hwy 19
Red Wing MN 55066 - Major well equipped folk music store with a wide variety of instrumentsnd books.
at Stoneyend and Here, Inc.

Homestead Pickin' Parlor
6625 Penn Avenue South
Richfield MN 55423
612/ Instruments, recordings, books

Musical Instrument Co.
3027 Central Avenue
Homewood, Alabama 35209
205/ - Bob Tedrow's shop carries many different kinds of acoustic instruments, including Dusty Strings and Masterworks hammered dulcimers. The web site has a really nice description of the dulcimers, plus a festival guide and lots of other stuff.

Hooker Hollow Hammered Dulcimers
Rt. 5 Box 295
Keyser, WV 26726
- makes custom order and experimental hammered dulcimers, including work with interesting woods (like cedar and lignum vitae) and does other custom dulcimer work.

An online magazine covering folk music in the southern US (also the borders and hinterlands). Calendars of events in the South and the hinterlands, from concerts, to regular jams, to Southern Christian Harmony sings - with links to other calendars. The September issue has an interview with John McCutcheon.


7040 Carroll Ave.
Tacoma Park, MD 20912
Well stocked store for the dulcimist and folk music enthusiast.
Ask about 's dulcimer book on Playing the Hammered Dulcimer in the Irish Tradition, and recordings.

House of Strings
3411 Ray Street
San Diego CA 92104

Mike Huddleson
6622 W. 35th St.
Wichita KS 67215
316/ - Custom built string instruments, including hammered dulcimers

- J&K Hammered Dulcimers
310 E. Chicago Blvd.
Britton MI 49229
517/ - In addition to selling hammered dulcimers, and supplies, Jim also performs and records, and is a great story teller. I've seen him go through a 20 minute set at a dulcimer festival, with an encore, and no one realized until much later that he had never played a note. He also has a recording studio. E-mail to for more info.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

Tiompan Alley Music - Recordings, etc. from Irish Hammered Dulcimest David James

- Musical Instruments
1384 Colton Mills Rd.
Bedford,VA 24523
- Master dulcimer maker also makes other instruments. Check his web site for more information.

16411 El Camino Real #1
Houston, TX 77062 - Sells used acoustic instruments and new Hudson Hammered Dulcimers.


Route 1, Box 26
Brasstown NC 28902
828/ Fax: 828/ Order only: 800/ - Widely known for historical musical instruments (viols, krumhorns, etc.), Susato early music, and Susato penny whistles, Kelischek also carries Dusty Strings hammered dulcimers, Folkcraft and McSpadden mountain dulcimers and Folkcraft and Dustry Strings harps.

Kitchen Musician
449 Hidden Valley Lane
Cincinnati OH 45215
513/ - Tunebooks for hammered dulcimer and other instruments by Sara Johnson. You're on the Website now. Kitchen Musician® Books

4246 Bristol Ave
Klamath Falls, OR 97603
- Carries both mountain and hammered dulcimers.

3806 Fenchurch Rd.
Baltimore MD 21218
Hammered dulcimers: the full line of Dusty Strings, Masterworks and Rick Thum and many used instruments as well. Violins: Morganstrad violins and a variety of other student and higher level instruments. All accessories for HD (adjustable stands, music holders, electronic tuners, many different types of hammers, etc.) and violin (bows, shoulder rests, stands, etc.).  Over 15 recordings, instructional CDs and books plus many other music books.  Ken also teaches about 75 students in group and private lessons. 

Ron Konzak - Dulcifusion
12580 Vista Drive NE
Bainbridge Island WA 98110
206/ - Not exactly hammered dulcimers, but "HD-like" instruments with metal chimes or wood marimba bars instead of strings.

Esther Kreek
Serene Sounds
1156 West 103rd, Dept. 206
Kansas City MO 64114
816/ Hammered dulcimer recordings by Esther Kreek, and info on the Heartland Dulcimer Camp

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

PO Box 1176
Medocino CA 95460
Fax and
South Arcade, at 1st Avenue & Union, Seattle WA

Lots of interesting instruments from around the world, including dulcimers. You need the Lark catalog.

Lost Valley Dulcimer
Linda Foley - Curt Sanders
8022 W. Fruitdale Road
Montague MI 49437
- A nice line of instruments with beautiful ornamental carving available. Linda has taught carving at Augusta. One of my dulcimers is a Lost Valley, and the dulcimer with the light colored soundboard pictured on this site is a Lost Valley.

POB Moore Lane
Healdsburg, Calif. 95448 USA
/ Fax: - Slogan is "Complete Supplies for the Stringed Instrument Maker" - woods, fingerboards, plans, links, also carries dulcimer plans, hurdy-gurdy plans, and plans for jigs and workbenches, etc. Check LMI about exotic woods.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

PO Box 490
Shady Side MD 20764
410/-m-th) Fax 410/ - Dulcimer recordings by Maggie Sansone, Ken Kolodner, Ceoltoiri, and Karen Ashbrook and other great CD's with Bonnie Rideout (fiddle), Hesperus, Sue Richards (harp) and Ensemble Galilei, plus performance info. Over 40 albums. Check out Maggie's Big Book of Celtic Tunes, available from
 

P.O. Box 4086
Seattle WA 98104
253/ - Dulcimer and harp duo Phil and Pam Boulding also building dulcimers and harps, perform, record and offer group lessons at the "School of Magical Strings".

629 Forest Avenue
Staten Island, NY
Phone , or Fax - In the "Other Stuff" category, where dulcimers are concerned, but a great place for other members of your band to look for vintage guitars, mandolins and banjos. One of the premier vintage instrument sites in the USA.

10670 S. Lowell
De Witt MI 48820
517/ - Handcrafted hammered dulcimers made by John Kelly

Mary-Gael Shop
404 North Donnelly Street
Mount Dora FL 32757
904/ Hammered and mountain dulcimers


1801 Peyco Dr. S.
Arlington TX 76001
817/ or 1 888 PLAY A HD - Fax: 817/ The home of Master Works hammered dulcimers, and recordings and books by Russell Cook. Also sells a variety of cases for HDs.


3101 Pico Boulevard
Santa Monica CA90405
310/ Fax 310/
- Dulcimers, both hammered and fretted, guitars, psalterys, fiddles, banjos, etc. Also well known for concerts.

recordings and hammer dulcimer instruction materials - Hammered Dulcimer stuff

McQuaid's Traditional Music Shop
38 Pearce Street
Nenagh
Co.Tipperary
Ireland



PO Box 1230
Mountain View, ARK 72560
870/ Fax: 870/ - Well known for the McSpadden mountain dulcimers, there are also hammered dulcimers available.

P.O. Box 616
Meadows of Dan, VA 24120
- (Used to be Orchard Springs Instruments in Fancy Gap. Dulcimer maker Jeff Sebens hasn't been in Fancy Gap for a long time, but I like the name "Fancy Gap".) - both hammered and mountain books and accessories, and other stuff, including some music software. Store is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, at the intersection of Hwy 58 and the Blue Ridge Parkway (milepost 177) in southwest Virginia (USA). About 20 miles from the Fancy Gap Exit (Exit 8) on I -77. Follow the signs to the Blue Ridge Parkway and travel north on the Parkway to Meadows of Dan.

Pacific MO (and via most music stores)
Order number 1-800-8-MEL-BAY () Massive publisher of music books, Hammered dulcimer books by Maddy MacNeil, Maggie Sansone, Phil Mason, Carrie Crompton, Karen Ashbrook and Carole Koenig. The WWW link is to the dulcimer page.

Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe
9410 FM 1960 W
Houston, TX 77070
Fax: Order line: - Hammered and mountain dulcimers, harps, and other acoustic instruments, has mail order catalog and nice web site.

Jim Miller - The Hampton Music Shop
PO Box 228
Hampton, Tennessee 37658
615/ - Jim makes dulcimers, and also performs and records, and is a great story teller.


Box 6
Laporte PA 18626
717/ - toll free - Recordings, lessons, by Pennsylvania dulcimist Donna Missigman, plus McSpadden mountain dulcimers, Mel Bay publications, oodles of independently published books, capos, etc.

Morgan, Glenn - See Fishbite

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.

- Dulcimer Books, Recodings by Ruffwater String Band and Just Friends - See Aunt Lu's above

PO Box #816
Nashville IN 47448
- Hammered dulcimers, mountain dulcimers and lap harps handmade by Bill Berg. Nashville, Indiana is full of interesting "old-timey" shops, and near Brown County state park. If you are interested in visiting Nashville IN, drop in at Mountain Made; if you are interested in visiting Mountain Made Music, allow some time for sightseeing in Nashville.


12710 Shawnee Mission Parkway 
Shawnee Mission, KS 66203
913/ - carries Hudson Hammered Dulcimers, McSpadden Mountain Dulcimers as well as other old - time instruments, kits, books, tapes, video's, etc., and he has expanded. The website has lots of information on music in the greater Kansas City area and other neat stuff.

15 Arnold Pl.
New Bedford, MA 02740
' venerable magazine about folk music and instruments goes back several years, though the website is new. The back issues have several interesting articles on folk music and dulcimers, both the hammered and fretted kinds.

8015 Big Bend Blvd
St. Louis MO 63119
- Hammered dulcimers by Mike Allen, Dusty Strings, MasterWorks, Lost Valley, Grassroots, James Jones, Dusty Strings, Chris Foss. Not just dulcimers. Many other intruments (guitars, mandolins, folk flutes, etc.) as well.


Bristol UK
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.


P.O. Box 2117
Stillwater MN 55082
651/
Musicmaker's have a neat web site with photos of their kit instruments, enough to make a whole band. They also sell accessories and supplies, including wire. I play dulcimers; I don't build them, but if you are into building instruments, or just thinking about it, definitely check them out.

Limmatquai 28-30
8001 Zurich, Switzerland
- 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.

134 N. 1st. Ave. E.
Ely, MN 55731
fax - Web store and "real" store with a large variety of music instruments, including hammered dulcimers and santoors in the "ethnic Instrument" section. Email


46 Spring Street
Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632
501/ - Dick & Reeda Rush's store has both hammered and mountain dulcimers. And Eureka Springs is a fun place to visit in the Arkansas Ozarks.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

109 Bell Road, Asheville, NC
, Orders , Fax - Wayne Erbsen's Native Ground Music His a resource for historic American music & folklore, particularly, historic banjo lore, Civil War, Old West and Appalachian. (Wayne is the author of "A Manual on How to Play the 5-String Banjo For the Compete Ignoramus!", if that gives you an idea of his sense of humor.)

312 W. Miner.
Yreka, CA. 96097
Phone: Dan Daniels has been building Appalachian Dulcimers and other wood items, including noters and stands since 1982.  Dan is an Appalachian Dulcimer builder, performer, writer, recording artist, teacher, workshop leader, working in the shadow of Mt. Shasta in Northern California.

Roanoke VA area - Indie Award winning band with hammered dulcimists Randy Marchany and Wes Chappell. Recordings by No Strings Attached.

Mail order sales of dulcimer and folk instrument accessories, CDs, cassettes and music books. Catalog. Now at Stoney End

Noteworthy Case
Hammered Dulcimer cases with gray Cordura cloth exterior, foam padding/insulation, and industrial strength Velcro closures that really work, formerly made by the Michigan Bag Lady, Peg Earl. Now made by Cindy Baker. Custom cases available.

Noteworthy Instruments
John H. Huron, Prop.
1220 Windsor Avenue
Bristol TN 37640
423/ - Mountain dulcimers and mouthbows (no HDs yet), but the fretless banjos and historical reproduction gourd banjars not only sound nice, but are museum quality, and well worth checking out. (John tans his own ground hog skins for the banjars.)

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

Oldtime Music Co.
PO Box 9-2294
Anchorage AK 99509
- Marge Ford also has large accordian selection.

Old Time Music Shoppe
608 Water Street
Union Mills IN 46382
219/ - Hammered and Mountain Dulcimers and other instruments, including harp, psaltery, banjo and autoharp, tapes and CDs, plus antiques.

P.O. Box 7593
Olympia WA 98507
- Not a hammered dulcimer dealer, and not a traditional appalachian dulcimer either, this is the home of the Walkabout Dulcimer, which looks a little like an Irish bouzouki in profile, but is fretted like a mountain dulcimer. Kevin Jones has an impressive customer list, including Cyndi Lauper, John Fogerty, Alan Woody and others. Well worth checking out, even if you are a traditionalist and a hammered person.


Steve Eulberg
1281 E. Magnolia, Unit D #188
Fort Collins, CO 80524
- Books, recordings and lessons on both lap and hammered. Steve Eulberg has a set of materials for using dulcimer in church services. Check out the website at http://www.owlmountainmusic.com/ Steve is also one the guitar instructors on JamPlay. http://www.jamplay.com/instructors/ Find out more about JamPlay in the Review at Guitar Lessons Reviewed. http://www.guitarlessonsreviewed.com/

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

#7 Millstone Village
Pigeon Forge TN
- Hammered Dulcimers, including a beginner's model, HD books, accessories and stuff, Appalachian dulcimers, old time mountain banjos and mandolins (including a backpacker) - up in the Smokies at the gateway to Gatlinburg. - Great place to visit.

Piper Music
2512 Meridian St.
Bellingham WA 98225
360/ - Folk music store, with things for dulcimers, books, etc.

11 White St. in Millrace Village
Mt. Holly NJ 08060
609/ - The WWW site features lap dulcimers, but they also do hammered, plus tapes, CD's, lessons, etc.

14532B, U.S. Rt. 23
Waverly, Ohio 45690 Features Prussia Valley Dulcimers built by Gary Sager along with McSpadden, Folkcraft/Folkroots, Vanderwould, Noteworthy Woodworking, Walnut Creek. Hammered Dulcimers by Masterworks, Dusty Strings, Songbird and Rick Thum. Autoharps by Evo Bluestein and Oscar
Schmidt. Accessories, Instruction and tablature books and CDs. Guitars, banjos, mandolins, basses, violins, concertinas, harmonicas, tin whistles, bodhrans and spoons. Gary and Toni Sager-owners.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

360 Breechblock Drive
Roswell GA
770/ - Mail order dulcimers, books, recordings and more. The Rainbow Farms Renegades meet and jam. For information, check the site or e-mail

140 West Louisiana
Vivian, La. 71082
318/ - Early and folk music instruments, music, recordings and accessories. Ren faires, etc.

Red Dragon Music Den
670 Winchester Ave.
Martinsburg WV 25401
Box 3362
304/ - Books, including music and medieval and renaissance books.

The Dulcimer Lady®
P.O. Box 7338
Denver CO  - - The Dulcimer Lady®, hammered dulcimer performer, teacher and author of, among other things "Striking Out and Winning". Her books are available from Elderly Instruments and other stores on this list.

P. O. Box 530
Inwood WV 25428 - Recordings by Sam Rizzetta, dulcimer designer, player, theorist, teacher and builder. Sam was one of the founders of Trapezoid as a hammered dulcimer quartet, and carries a re-release of the original Trapezoid recording, as well as his new albums. Sam is the creator of the Dulcetta (soprano dulcimer), a bass dulcimer, and the new Rizzetta "piano dulcimer", a fully chromatic instrument. Sam's albums are available on-line at .

Maddy MacNeil's recording and publishing company. Recordings by Maddy.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

PO Box 19270
Rochester NY 14619
fax - Mitzie Collins' company. Catalog lists recordings by Mitzie and many other hammered dulcimer artists. E-mail to

127 Winter East
Williamsburg, VA
757/ Recordings by free lance dulcimist and flute player Tim Seaman. Here on This Ridge (about Shenandoah National Park); Wayfaring Stranger ; Incarnation (Christmas); Scratch the Sky;Celebration of Centuries (for Williamsburg's 300th anniversary), Snow-Covered Ice (Scottish Christmas
with John Turner and Ardie Boggs), and Quiet in the Meadow (gentle waltzes, shepherd airs and lullabies)

A massive on-line sheet music 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.

David Sheppard Instruments
1820 Spring Garden St
Greensboro NC 27403

125 East Main Street
Jonesborough, TN 37659
- Hammered Dulcimers, Appalachian Mountain Dulcimers, Bowed Psalteries, Lap Harps, Folk Harps, Custom Mandolins, Guitars and Banjos, also a very unique instrument, The "Dujo". Rhythm Bones, Books, Hammers, Accessories, etc.

225 North Harrison PO box837
Shipshewana, IN 46565
toll free 1 888 MTDULC-2 - Located in the Amish country in Indiana, Simple Sounds carries hammered dulcimers, lap dulcimers, and many other instruments, including player pianos. They also host workshops for both hammered and lap dulcimer.

Jerry Reed Smith

203 W. State St
Black Mountain NC 28711
- Big selection of dulcimers, and a nice place to visit...in fact, Black Mountain is a nice place to visit. If you don't have his "Strayaway Child" album, call and order it, and ask about his others. Website under development.

425 N Swain
Ingalls IN 46048
Toll Free1- (Orders Only) - 's site has both lap and hammered dulcimers, as well as other instruments, kits and accessories..

47 West Street
Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
207/ Fax 207/ - Edward and Anne Damm (used to be Great Lakes Dulcimers) carry Chris Foss and Masterworks HDs, many other instruments, and books, etc. Song of the Sea is a full-service folk music store and resource,
with a FAQ page about folk instruments and a directory of folk groups, teachers, and players accesible from the Song of the Sea website. The store is open 10 am - 5:30 pm Monday - Saturday, US Eastern Time.

Chris Foss
P.O. Box 219
Summersville, MO 65571
- Chris Foss makes hammered dulcimers, including a very nice inexpensive beginner instrument.

4631 Bayard Park Drive
Evansville, IN 47714
Phone: Email: The store handles hammered and mountain dulcimers by Masterworks, David Lindsey, Rick Thum, McSpadden, Folkcraft, T.K. O'Brien, and others; also, Oscar Schmidt autoharps, recordings, books, and specialty items such as embroidered bags and art prints, all with a dulcimer focus.

8675 Highway 601
Salisbury, NC 28147
tele & fax - email Hammered Dulcimer maker Lee Spears has been making instruments for 20+ years. Even if you are not in the market for an instrument, he makes great hammers, and you should really try a set of Lee Spears hammers.

21 N. Shafer Street
Box 900
Athens OH 45701
- StewMac offers a complete line of hard-to-find tools, parts, and accessories for building and repairing stringed instruments. We also offer a wide selection of instruction books and videos covering all aspects of repair and building. They have a free catalog. Primariliy guitars and guitar kits, but also banjos and some other instruments, and tools and supplies.

920 State Hwy 19
Red Wing MN 55066
Phone & Fax Mainly mountain dulcimers and harps, but also carries Dusty strings, Hudson and Grassroots hammered dulcimers....and lots of music books. 's website has a lengthy book catalog, and the US mailorder site for and now for Note-Ably Yours.

1028 Ha Ha Tonka
Camdenton MO 65020
573/ - Stringed instrument music shop in the Lake of the Ozarks region of Missouri.

11129 US Hwy 90 West
Beaumont, TX 77713
409/ - Barry and Linda Evans at Sweet Sounds Dulcimer House carry MasterWorks, Lost Valley Hammer Dulcimers, McSpadden Mountain Dulcimers, tuners, tuner pickups, cordura cases for mountain dulcimers, hammer and mountain dulcimer jewelry in wood and silver, many more accessories and a large assortment of books, tapes and CD's.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

760 Ragin Lane
Rock Hill SC 29732
803/ fax 803/

Linda Lowe Thompson
309 Pennsylvania
Denton TX 76205
- The very well known Hammered Dulcimer Tunebook and more.


36 Villawood Lane
St. Louis MO 63119
314/ - Recordings and accessories - Rick also performs on HD and is now selling a line of dulcimers

c/o Mitch Pingel
275 Main St
Broomfield CO
303/
fax 303/ Hand made hammered dulcimers and autoharps. Alternate contact is Randy Barnes, PO Box 1523, Buena Vista CO 81211, Check the website for phtos and descriptions of instruments.

Jeannie Tomanica - Wood and Soul
Hammermaker
8250 Mt. Garfield
Nunica, MI 49448
616/853/6371 - A variety of well made standard (whatever that is) and custom hammers, including double headers

Westlake Village CA - Luthier Tom Swyney custom builds dulcimers, psalteries, bodhrans, and has dulcimer accesories.

P.O. Box 26066
St. Louis Park MN 55426
In MN: -- Fax: - Primarily an internet music store, Unicorn features bowed psalteries and hammered dulcimers, including a low priced 13/12 "Meadowlark" model.

20 Riverside Drive
Ashland,NH 03217
fax: Vintage Fret Shop has hammered dulcimers and, of course, fretted instruments. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11-5:30, closed Mondays

1513 Upcreek Road
Bidwell OH 45614
614/ Fax 614/ - Dulcimer recordings and dulcimer books by Kendra Ward, and bookings. Also, the new Dulcimer Times magazine. For information send e-mail to


William K. Webster
14677 E. 8 Mile Road
Warren, MI 48089
313/ - Bill Webster's dulcimers have a full, rich sound for solos or for ensemble playing with everything from fiddle, to harp to grand piano. My main recording duclimer is a Webster. Bill makes both fifth tune and octave bass instruments, and recently completed a dulcimer with both bass tunings on one instrument. E-mail address is

1722 Carrick Street
VICTORIA  BC  V8R 2M2
CANADA [Victoria, International]
[Canada - Toll Free] - Canada's largest online harp retailer. Also the "home base" for Canadian harper .

1916 Pike Place, Box 906
Seattle WA
206/ Hammered dulcimer builder Rick Fogel, dulcimers and accessories.


Historic Roscoe Village
Coshocton OH 43812
614/ - Large selection of hammered dulcimers and mountain dulcimers from various makers, including Dusty Strings, Dulcimer Factory, Chris Foss, J&K, Master Works, Lost Valley, Blue Lion and Cloud Nine. Coshocton is home to the Ohio dulcimer contest in May.

Joe Wojciechowski
23891 80th Avenue
Evart MI 49631
616/ - Dulcimers and hammers and some interesting accessories, like the music stand that sits on the top rail of a hammered dulcimer.

1801 Peyco Dr. South
Arlington TX 76001
817/ - Hammered dulcimer builder, performer, recording artist and past Winfield winner .

---

Top of This Page
Store and Source List
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / J / L / M / N / O / P / R / S / T-W

---

Home | Links | Books

---