Kat -

The picture pixilates badly before you can get enough enlargement to see how the flexi goes into the "mount," but it's obviously pretty major surgery.

It appears to be a finely crafted installation, and may have its uses; but I'm afraid it impresses me as a "solution in search of a problem."

The dulcimer gang that shows up at Winfield every year, at the "Holstein Racing Society" tent, includes a number of players who have done some really exotic modified and special-build semi-dulcimer creations. Floating fretboards with fiddle bridges, chromatic fretboards, etc. I have to admire their inventiveness, done some of it myself, but one must ask - "but why?".

John