Fiddle-shaped Dulcimer, Kentucky/West Virginia

Fiddle-shaped Dulcimer, Kentucky/West Virginia

This modified hourglass dulcimer was acquired by David Schnaufer in July 2003 via Ebay. Its previous owner was located in Northern Illinois.

DS-12

Kentucky

West Virginia

E

Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee

S. Conatser; Z. Law

29" x 7" x 1 7/8"

wood with metal strings; wood is yellow in hue and varnished; instrument is likely a 20th-century instrument; top is made of two pieces of wood, with the fretboard placed over the seam; back also made of two pieces of wood, whose seam is overlaid with an additional wooden strip; sides are 3 separate pieces of wood; machine-worked metal added to tailpiece with two flat-headed screws; nut and bridge wooden and set into fretboard; 4 notches for strings; 15 brass frets, the fourth of which extends the width of the fretboard, but the others only extend halfway across; frets appear to have been repositioned, and do not appear to represent a true diatonic or chromatic pattern; 4 sound holes, f-shaped; instrument in overall excellent condition