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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 307974, member: 55&quot;]Yes - maybe you should just keep it and play it.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Appalachian dulcimer is one of the easiest instruments to play.&nbsp; For those who&#039;ve never done it:&nbsp; it is tuned to an open chord; three-string ones might be D A d or D A A (but almost any open chord will do). Other tunings are possible, but really anything that sounds good or &quot;right&quot; is acceptable. Yours appears to have all three strings doubled.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; One plays melody on the highest string, ignoring the others which are used as drones, though advanced players may play notes on the other strings also.&nbsp;&nbsp; Play the notes with a finger or thumb on your left hand, or some players use a stick which slides around in a nice way, called a &quot;noter.&quot;&nbsp; Use a pick, quill, or just your right fingers to strum.</p><p><br /></p><p>The frets on the dulcimer omit the wrong notes, so you can only play right notes; unlike a guitar where you have to learn where the right and wrong notes are.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is like a piano that has only white keys; you could then play only correct notes, in that scale.</p><p>Of course it is possible to get much more complicated than that, but at the most basic, you strum all the strings, playing various notes on the highest string, and it sounds pretty darn good.&nbsp;&nbsp; Pick it up, make music.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is about as easy as it could be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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