Fret Position Reference Guide For Mountain Dulcimer, Hurdy Gurdy, And Other Diatonic Instruments

Accurate fret placement can make or break a homemade mountain dulcimer. Richard Ash's Fret Position Reference Guide For Mountain Dulcimer, Hurdy Gurdy, And Other Diatonic Instruments gives you detailed fret placement charts for every scale length from 8 to 32 inches, in eighth-inch steps.

• Diatonic instruments: every chart has 21 whole-number frets
• Chromatic or partly chromatic: all the half-number frets are included too (6 1/2, 13 1/2, 1 1/2, 8 1/2 and the rest), up to fully chromatic
• Precision: nut, bridge and all 36 fret positions measured to 0.001 inch
• Three measurements for each fret: to the previous fret, to the nut and to the bridge

Richard Ash, the compiler, owns Folkcraft Instruments and builds instruments there. Folkcraft has been making dulcimers longer than almost anyone and is known for fretboards that play true. These charts help you build an Appalachian dulcimer that plays every note in tune.

Building guitars, ukuleles or other chromatic instruments? See the chromatic fret position guide.

208 pages.