Description
Just imagine… You’re having fun at a festival, outside taking a workshop, and it starts to rain on your expensive Masterworks or Dusty Strings hammered dulcimer. You dash for cover, but your instrument is still wet. Should have had a Songbird Festival dulcimer!
Features
- Fully customizable laminate surface
- Okoume Marine Ply top and back
- Waterproof
- Sound holes in the back
- 17/16/8, but this too is customizable
- Comes with hammers and T-handle tuning wrench
Waterproof Materials
We build these on a body with Okoume Marine Ply top and back which is very light to offset the added weight of the high pressure laminate surface. So since the ply is marine, and all the glues used to build the dulcimer are water proof, not only is the dulcimer water proof, it is sea worthy!
You can take these to the beach, go anywhere you like, nothing will affect them. Chris left one out in a snow storm one day, just to test it out. It got about 6 inches before he brought it in, blew the snow off with compressed air, and discovered it was still in tune!
The sound holes are all in the back. Folks ask why we don’t put some in the top. “So the rain doesn’t go in” is our reply.
Fully Customizable
As you can imagine, the decorative possibilities are endless. If you are interested, go to the Wilsonart web site, pick out a laminate you like, and call us with the product number. We’ll order it, and build you a beauty you won’t be afraid to take anywhere. The High Definition laminates are particularly nice, they have a texture to them.
January 2018. A customer in England ordered one in matte black with Maple bridges and dampers. It turned out to look sleek, modern and elegant and sounded wonderful. We loved it, so that is going to be our default Festival dulcimer. We’ll recommend it to anyone interested unless they just want something different. It is Wilsonart Black 1595. We are going to try to keep some of it in stock which will make a quicker turnaround.
Another note about laminate selection. Not all the laminates on the Wilsonart site are readily available. Anything brand new, or with a letter before the stock number is probably a special order. Also, to get the sound right, it is best to get the thinnest grade which is Vertical. Not all laminates are available in Vertical grade.
You are also welcome to customize the size of your dulcimer as well; 17/16/8 is not set in stone. If you’d like a smaller dulcimer, and/or one without a chromatic bridge, just let us know! We would be happy to customize it to your preferences. We can negotiate a price that we will both be satisfied with. Give us a call!
Availability: We are a small Mom and Pop enterprise, and can’t have everything we make in stock all the time. We should have all of the accessories and small items all of the time. We also try to keep natural 
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