I occasionally get asked to build unusual musical instruments.  I’m always up for a challenge and when local musician Ed Mikenas...

At the end of 2022 I was contacted by the producer of a Cleveland, Ohio performance of Howard Shore's award-winning score of Lord of the...

In October 2021, I was approached by Stan Humphries, a New Mexico based electrical and computer engineer, who obviously had too much time...

After having built a number of aspects of Indian Santoors, I finally got a commission to build a complete instrument based on a...

Years ago Randy Machany, dulcimer player with the group No Strings Attached, created what became the first attempt at creating a...

A long time customer who plays one of Linear Chromatic Hammered Dulcimers in his band The Botanist requested I make him an electric...

Working with Steve Shmania in 1998, we brought to life the first Linear Chromatic; a hammered dulcimer which gave players a more logical...

Lately I’ve become increasingly interested in other instruments in the worldwide dulcimer family so when Dipu Deshmukh (an accomplished...

Garret our youngest son has taken a shine to the West of late so we have been doing some traveling out in that direction over the last...

As the yangqin is a type of hammered dulcimer, it shares many elements of construction with other instruments in the hammered dulcimer...

Making unique artistic sound hole images has always been integral to the overall design of my hammered dulcimers. My first sound hole...

Although I don’t sell a lot of them, I offer another version of the hammered dulcimer, the tsimbl. This fully chromatic instrument is a...

I make three different sizes of bowed psalteries, the three octave Baritone, the two and half octave Alto and the two octave Soprano. I...

As we approach the heating season, I’ll throw out my usual advice about instrument care. Keep the humidity up! Wood in an instrument...