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you are most welcome, as always, sir ;-)

My pleasure!

DEBRA!! Thanks so much, I am happy to offer my ridiculously self-deprecating humor free of charge. It's included in every video!

hmmm.... this is a tricky physics / physiology matter. not being able to see you (or you me), I'm just going to assume you're trying to manage all of this with a pic and jump between the low and the high strings? If that's the case I don't see how it could work (at least not without serious gymnastics), because I think you (I do!) would shift the right hand to hit the high strings and nudge them muted. I think this is the exact sort of reason that probably lead Chet Atkins to chicken pickin' sorta style. Uses the non-thumb fingers to grab melody while letting the thumb jump back and forth, and he had a thumb pick to bring out the attack on the low side. Not remotely easy.

Interesting… are you saying you strum with your whole hand in a way that your palm is moving, not planted, but still in a muted way? That sounds tricky!!

@ yes I move the whole hand. I tuck my three outside fingers against the heel of my palm, leaving my index finger and thumb open. Then I strum whilst semi muting the strings with the heel of my palm. I’ll post a short video soon.

Hope you enjoy it! These are just such fun instruments to explore and noodle and lose yourself in

Glad you enjoyed it!!!

I did. Who is the japanese man who played " Friday im in love" I like him.

Yup!! And his usual instruments are actually bass and cello

baby steps, but steps all the same!

I recall replying to this, but alas do not see it now... I'll try again, and thank you for the question. I discovered the dulcimer style instruments years ago (without realizing they were even part of a family of instruments), and fell in love with the ease of playing, and the ability to access creativity and exploration easier. But over the years I found the available instruments to be fine but lacking. Mostly I wanted something that was of higher precision and played in tune 100%, so that lead me down the path I find myself on now. And along the way it made sense to outfit some of them with a guitar-style setup (and one in chromatic dulcimer), just to see what happens. And because for a good bit of my guitar work I end up playing the upper 3 strings only to stay out of the way of a keys player, so this seemed like a lot of good overlaps. Hopefully that answered the question ;-). Lemme know if it opened a bunch more!

You mean I didn’t play it all the way through or something? I didn’t say I would, did I? I’d need to practice more, there are LOT of words in that song!!

@HeyInglewood Ok. Thanks. I will listen to it and stumble my way through all of those 2 chords. Thanks. 😊

You’ll always be one chord away from being 100% right!

The part at the end? That was by chance, felt good, lemme know how it goes, I thought it rounded out the options well.

We buy the lumber rough (or maybe pre-dimensioned in some cases), and then process it down to size at the shop before machining it into the individual parts.

@HeyInglewood Good luck ryan. 🎸

The guitar version is GBE, same as the top 3 of guitar, and same intervals as a ukulele (or same tuning as a baritone one). Different sound, construction, functions like 3 strings… I made a video about it lemme see if I can find the link

And here it is! th-cam.com/video/fZk28pB40qE/w-d-xo.html

@@HeyInglewood thank you!

Unless these are only for specific musicians, in which case the previous statement is withdrawn

I’d like them to be for everyone, but manufacturing in the US is just really expensive. $300 for a 100% US made instrument just isn’t realistic even with a manufacturing company. At least not with these instrument specs. There are too many parts and too many intricacies to pull it off (trust me, I’m trying to figure out the options!!). Maybe there’ll be solutions in a year or two 🤷🏽‍♂️

Hey, we have all the songs in full on our Channel with the artists details in each

Hey! They’re a range, and the discount code is good through 10/31! heyinglewood.com/collections/the-cumberland

I think so too! But I’m biased. Actually, no, it’s objectively true 😉

The price breakdown is here - there is a discount only valid till the end of October - heyinglewood.com/collections/the-cumberland

Yay! Thank you!

@@loriejo67 thank you so much

Weird. I haven’t looked in a while, but my experience with seagull is they tend to do this n that without notice, so it may just be on back order… tho not being on the site is weird.

Not sure that reference, but it’s a great song, and I’m thinking about making it a lesson at some point… would that be of interest to? It’s one of those sorta sleeper hits, not the first on a list but everyone seems to know it.

Awesome! I was pretty pleased with how the different sections came together… keep me posted where you get with it!

That would be amazing!!!

Email me (and be patient), I bet we can sort it out. It being in G just means having to change all the names, but the placement of fingers is the same. And if it’s a G model the stretch should be reasonable (at least as far as dulcimer things go)… we can work it out!! Hey@heyinglewood.com

I always appreciate a thoughtful answer 😉 Thanks for the validation Bob! Keep rocking your uke!

Yup! It’s available in the preorder run happening right now. No additional cost. Got a few southpaws already purchased in this first run, even, so you’re in good company 😎🎸

It does sound a smidge warmer, I agree… I did a bit of a test on video for that 4-5 years ago… somewhere hiding on the channel, if interested!

@@HeyInglewood You know you're going to get a lot of bright from this thing, so you don't worry about losing that "dulcimer high end" when getting an only slightly warmer wood. Take care.

Yup!!

Folky Zepplin - I call band name!!

“Thank You” “Hangman’s gallows” (does that even count?) “Levee gonna break” but done our way?

aren't they fabulous?! Came in and knocked that out in maybe 2 takes.

You are right John, it is our deluxe

thanks John

Def check it out! High energy, sad despite the tempo, I’m a sucker for that sort of thing. The crowd feedback creation explained on song Exploder is pretty interesting if you’re into that sort of thing!

really appreciate that feedback Stefan, keeps me wanting to create more content.

I will let them know!

They are pretty fabulous… and Tyler nailed it well as well can be (on a dulcimer, not ukulele)

@@michealnotmichael6595 it my Cumberland River Guitar, we just released ☀️

It’s my new line of River Guitars and Dulcimers heyinglewood.com/collections/the-cumberland Have a gander, jump in the mailing list, etc! Discount on the preorders for list folks!

Sir you are a gentleman and a scholar and I look very much forward to meeting you online and getting your you Cumberland asap!!

The Merlin’s have 7 frets so they can cover all the notes in an octave. The Cumberlands have 12 frets, with a “6.5” fret (flat 7th on the scale), and then the 4 notes above the octave mark (repeating the notes of the previous octave) Does that help?

@@HeyInglewood I never took music theory lol. Are those frets in the same order as one using a dulcimer fret calculation 20.75 x seven frets? That I understand if so? or are they in some special unique distance?

Not a unique setup, same as a modern mountain dulcimer. They have an extra fret that the Merlin’s leave off. Scale length is 21”.

@@HeyInglewood Oh I see, its just like a mtn dulcimer just seven frets calculated to the 21 vibration length.

Well, it is what it is, I suppose, and why it’s a pretty inexpensive instrument. Have you seen the Cumberland model I released this week? This is a good addendum to what you’re saying: th-cam.com/video/p6QgzZAlr0U/w-d-xo.html

It really is!

@@wolfharbinger thanks so much

Yes, technically a Merlin is a dulcimer guitar 😎 I just released my own line you might find interesting: heyinglewood.com/collections/the-cumberland