Hello
I appreciate the interest in the dulcijo. After years of confusion, I wish I had not named my instrument a dulcijo. It is confused with other instruments. If you take a dulcimer and install a banjo drum some folks call that a dulcijo. My instrument takes a banjo and adds a diatonic scale, reduces the number of strings to three, and reduces the size of drum to 8 inches. The advantage of this is it promotes the playing of the melody in the high range of the instrument similar to the dulcimer. It utilizes the full scale of the instrument being the melody is played all on the first string and uses the second string for a drone. The regular banjo could be played like this, but most folks stay on the first five frets of the banjo because going down the neck is to complex with all the unused frets. Steve Martin on "Youtube", gives a great example of utilizing the fingerboard playing Scotland the Brave on clawhammer banjo. The dulcijo makes that style easier. I like that style, some may not. Yhe dulcijo unlike a dulcimer or strumstick, adds the short third string to give the added rhythm quality of the clawhammer banjo and the small drum brings out the high end of the instrument louder and clearer than an 11 inch drum commonly found on five string banjos.
Thanks
Michael Fox
dulcijo.com