Check out the "evil half-breed" about halfway down this page: http://www.davidbeede.com/octavedulcimers.htm Chromatic under the bass and middle strings, diatonic under the melody. Weirds me out for DAD tuning but logical for DAA.
It's not that hard to get used to a chromatic. I finally added the extra markers per Stephen Siefert's suggestion at a workshop last summer. The stickers are all his fault, since he's the original owner of this dulcimer and he's the one who ordered it with only two markers (frets 3 and 7, speaking diatonically). Steve now recommends marking a chromatic at frets 1-1/2, 3, 4, 5 and 7. I crammed in one last turtle at the 8-1/2. Any excuse to add sea turtles to a dulcimer is ok in my book.
Aside for any guitar/uke players reading this: Do not attempt to count frets. This is special mathematics for MD players only.
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Date: 2012-03-18 10:52 pm (UTC)It's not that hard to get used to a chromatic. I finally added the extra markers per Stephen Siefert's suggestion at a workshop last summer. The stickers are all his fault, since he's the original owner of this dulcimer and he's the one who ordered it with only two markers (frets 3 and 7, speaking diatonically). Steve now recommends marking a chromatic at frets 1-1/2, 3, 4, 5 and 7. I crammed in one last turtle at the 8-1/2. Any excuse to add sea turtles to a dulcimer is ok in my book.
Aside for any guitar/uke players reading this: Do not attempt to count frets. This is special mathematics for MD players only.