Mountain Dulcimer Accessories

Cases
Deluxe McSpadden Mountain Dulcimer Case
$90.00 (or upgrade with purchase of McSpadden Mountain Dulcimer for $50.00)


Black vinyl coated hard shell body with plush lining and interior pocket. Three heavy duty latches.

Soft Mountain Dulcimer Case
$40.00

Included with McSpadden instrument purchase. Brown Cordura exterior and soft black interior. Shoulder straps and pocket on the outside.


Capos
Deluxe Mountain Dulcimer Capo
$49.00

 

An extremely well crafted solid brass custom capo with patented adjusting knob and trip handle. It is absolutely the best mountain dulcimer capo we have ever seen.
Sweetwater Mountain Dulcimer Capo
$12.00
A smaller, more compact plastic capo adjustable (with a screw) for fretboards from 1 5/6” to 1 9/16” wide. A capo is used to change the pitch of the MD so that you can play in a different key with the same chord position.



Strings
String Sets
Ionian - $4.50
Mixolydian - $4.50

 

 

Regular (Ionian) set has 4 loop-end steel strings (3 x .011 and 1 wrapped x .022 guage bass string). These are the strings on a new McSpadden MD. If you usually play in Mixolydian (D-A-D) tuning, the Mixolydian strings will probably suit you best. That set contains 4 loop-end steel strings (2 x .011, 1 x .013 and 1 wrapped x .022 guage bass string).
Individual Mountain Dulcimer Strings
Steel String $.70 each
Wound Brass String $2.00 each

 

 

Fine quality music wire, choose pre-looped aor ball-end. All are 45” long.

Loop-end steel strings:
.011 $.80 ea.
.013 6 $.80 ea.

Ball-end steel strings:
.011 $.80 ea.
.013 $.80 ea.

Loop-end Wound Brass strings:
.020 $3.00 ea.
.022 $3.00 ea.
.024 $3.00 ea.

Ball-end Wound Brass strings:
.020 $3.00 ea.
.022 $3.00 ea.
.024 $3.00 ea.




Playing Accessories
Fast Fret
$6.00
  Play faster and easier by rubbing Fast Fret firmly over your strings and fingerboard before and after playing. Won’t damage the finish of your instrument.
Wrist Rest
$15.00

 

A must for finger picking! Great for flat-picking also! This handy (walnut) wrist rest is recommended to owners of McSpadden dulcimers. Designed to fit over the fretboard, it gives you a place to set your wrist while finger or flat-picking.
Mountain Dulcimer Strap
$10.00

 

Adjustable nylon woven web straps are 2 inches in width with double stitched genuine leather end tabs. Made by Fort Bryan. Comes in black only.
Mountain Dulcimer Buttons
(for straps) - $3.00 each
  Chrome screw-on strap buttons for Mountain Dulcimer or guitar. Easy installation.

Thumb and Finger Picks

Thumb pick - $2.00 each
Finger pick - $2.00 each

  Dunlop nickel silver, shell, clear and white thumb and finger picks and metal picks in 5 gauges (thumb .025” only). Plastic finger and thumb picks are medium and larger sizes.

Herdim Picks
$2.50 each
  Mountain Dulcimer Herdim nylon 3 point picks with non-slip grip for your thumb and finger.

Mountain Dulcimer Pickup
$90.00
  Schatten Model AD-01 is a transducer style microphone system which does a great job of amplifing the instrument with very little work. Use self-adhesive tape (provided) to test your preferred location, get satisfied, then super glue (gel) into place permanently.


Tuners

Intellituner
$45.00
Only 4 7/8” wide, 2 5/8” tall and 5/8” thick, this great little digital chromatic electronic tuner has a built-in metronome. Travels in your shirt pocket! Will accept a tuner pickup for an even better response. What a great device!