Oh, I forgot... Another interestin' thing you can do with the lap dulcimer is use the heavy slide that dobro players use.. Now that is real sinful... But it works... And sounds great once one perfects the technique of playin' with a slide...

I play an unfretted cigar-box geeter with a slide... It is similar in some respects to the dulcimer so there is a lot of "positive transference"... I've also played tenor geeters going back to the 60's and the finger picking is similar...

And, lastly...

...bad Kat, bad...

Awww, jus' funnin'... I hold my pinky down purdy hard when playin' my dulcimers (I own 2) 'cause it's the most stabilizing way I have figured out to keep the bugger from wandering away...

B~