Thought it would be nice to have this all in one place.
Most dulcimers include the following frets from the chromatic (all of 'em) fingerboard:
0 2 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 - octave 1
24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36 - octave 3
I also use a simplified one:
0 2 4 5 7 9 11 12, etc.
For both of those, you can capo up to the 2 fret and also play in minor.
And here is the blues-cimer. I just made two and the are lots of fun to play, you can easily use Shane's videos over in "how to play" to get lots of ideas for improvising.
0 3 5 7 10 12 (optional 6) (edited 1/26/10 to include 5!)
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OK, this sounds interesting. Now just to ask the same thing again, if I have a guitar with burned in frets and I want to add frets to make it a dulci or blue-cimer I can use the guitar scale, but put the frets only on the numbers you listed? I think I get it just want to be sure the guitar scale is the same measurements. I like this idea, I need to read more. thanks Diane
if you used the "dulcimer" setting on the stewmac calculator, you already have left out the frets. Standard chromatic fretting has 12 to the octave. Dulcimer has 8. Use what you have and you are good to go.
Mike Willmouth said:OK, I'm lost. I'm building my grand daugther an 18" (46mm) diatonic scale CBG. I used the Stewart MacDonald on line fret calculator for a Dulcimer. I have 12 frets listed with measurements -- so is everyone here saying I should leave out some of the frets? If so, which ones? Which frets would be best to keep for a 6 yr old? My printout it shows fret 8 as an octave, so what should I do with it? Or should I just put all the frets on the fretboard and not worry about removing any of them?
Well, I'm about 99 percent done with my grandaugher's diatonic scale CBG. I strung it up to check it out and I noticed that there is a half note in there, so the Stewmac Calculator doesn't remove these. I'll be posting the pictures of this "pink" CBG in a couple of days.
Diane in Chicago said:if you used the "dulcimer" setting on the stewmac calculator, you already have left out the frets. Standard chromatic fretting has 12 to the octave. Dulcimer has 8. Use what you have and you are good to go.
Mike Willmouth said:OK, I'm lost. I'm building my grand daugther an 18" (46mm) diatonic scale CBG. I used the Stewart MacDonald on line fret calculator for a Dulcimer. I have 12 frets listed with measurements -- so is everyone here saying I should leave out some of the frets? If so, which ones? Which frets would be best to keep for a 6 yr old? My printout it shows fret 8 as an octave, so what should I do with it? Or should I just put all the frets on the fretboard and not worry about removing any of them?
That half note might be the disputed, much maligned, extremely handy "6+" fret. If so, you'll be glad it is there as time goes by.
Mike Willmouth said:Well, I'm about 99 percent done with my grandaugher's diatonic scale CBG. I strung it up to check it out and I noticed that there is a half note in there, so the Stewmac Calculator doesn't remove these. I'll be posting the pictures of this "pink" CBG in a couple of days.
Diane in Chicago said:if you used the "dulcimer" setting on the stewmac calculator, you already have left out the frets. Standard chromatic fretting has 12 to the octave. Dulcimer has 8. Use what you have and you are good to go.
Mike Willmouth said:OK, I'm lost. I'm building my grand daugther an 18" (46mm) diatonic scale CBG. I used the Stewart MacDonald on line fret calculator for a Dulcimer. I have 12 frets listed with measurements -- so is everyone here saying I should leave out some of the frets? If so, which ones? Which frets would be best to keep for a 6 yr old? My printout it shows fret 8 as an octave, so what should I do with it? Or should I just put all the frets on the fretboard and not worry about removing any of them?
if i wanted to continue this for a longer neck; would i start at 14?
like this 0 2 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 (then) 14 16 17 19 21 22 23 24
or am i off?
Diane in Chicago said:That half note might be the disputed, much maligned, extremely handy "6+" fret. If so, you'll be glad it is there as time goes by.
Mike Willmouth said:Well, I'm about 99 percent done with my grandaugher's diatonic scale CBG. I strung it up to check it out and I noticed that there is a half note in there, so the Stewmac Calculator doesn't remove these. I'll be posting the pictures of this "pink" CBG in a couple of days.
Diane in Chicago said:if you used the "dulcimer" setting on the stewmac calculator, you already have left out the frets. Standard chromatic fretting has 12 to the octave. Dulcimer has 8. Use what you have and you are good to go.
Mike Willmouth said:OK, I'm lost. I'm building my grand daugther an 18" (46mm) diatonic scale CBG. I used the Stewart MacDonald on line fret calculator for a Dulcimer. I have 12 frets listed with measurements -- so is everyone here saying I should leave out some of the frets? If so, which ones? Which frets would be best to keep for a 6 yr old? My printout it shows fret 8 as an octave, so what should I do with it? Or should I just put all the frets on the fretboard and not worry about removing any of them?
I like the blues-cimer fretting but what would it be if I added the 2 to it, so its 0 2 3 5 (6) 7 10 12 . I like to throw in the number 2 note like in knotlenny's 3 string 101 lesson. What do you think?
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