Spaw -

By "almost traditional" what I meant was that so many dulcimers made more recently do use the gears that a lot of people expect them to look like that.

For traditional, you use baling wire or fence staples for the frets and whittle your own pegs out of the broken handles off'n the hoss brushes - and argue with yer buddies about whether cat gut is better 'n skunk innards for the strings.

I figgered y'all would know that.

John