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Page last updated 27 March 2008

 

Dulcimer Makers in the UK:

 

This information is provided by dulcimer makers who responded to the club's questionnaire. The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club and its committee are not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided, nor do they endorse any of the makers listed here. They recognise that other individuals and companies may provide similar services.

 

Click on a name below to go straight to a particular maker's details:-

 

Roger Frood (Dove Dulcimers) Matthew Bascetta
Martyn Banks (Oakwood Instruments) Tim Manning (Music Magic)
Alec Anness (Cottage Dulcimers) Ian Clabburn

 

 Lindsay Porteous
   
   

 

This is in no way an exhaustive list, but is compiled from details given to the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club.

DOVE DULCIMERS
Roger Frood
Barton Road
Butleigh
GLASTONBURY
Somerset  BA6 8TL


Tel: 01458 850682
Email:

  
Hammered Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional & Bespoke, including Bass Dulcimers.
Used instruments: Sold and Part-exchanged
Repairs: Old and Modern
Accessories sold: Accessories:  Hammers, Stands, Tuning Levers, Strings (steel, brass, bronze and purpose-made bass dulcimer strings), Delrin bridge caps, Dampers, Electronic chromatic tuners, Tuning pins etc.
 
Woodworker (Furniture designer and maker) since 1969. Dulcimer maker since 1979. full-time since 1982.

Lindsay Porteous
Tron Workshop
Tron House
CULROSS
Fife
Scotland KY12 8JG


Tel: 01383 880271

  
Hammered Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional, Bespoke
Used instruments: Sold, Bought, Part-exchanged
Repairs: Antique, Modern
 
Mountain Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional, Bespoke
Used instruments: Sold, Bought, Part-exchanged
Repairs: Antique, Modern
 
Other instruments made: Bodhrans, Mouthbows, other simple folk instruments
Accessories sold: When I have spare parts, please enquire
 
Instrument maker since 1975
Hammered Dulcimer since 1968
Mountain Dulcimer since 1972

Oakwood Instruments
Martyn Banks
8 Ladywood Road
LEEDS

LS8 2QF


Tel: 0113 265 8585
Email:

  
Hammered Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional, Bespoke
Used instruments: Sold, Part-exchanged
Repairs: Antique, Modern
Warranty Available
 
Other instruments made: Guitars, mandolins, mandolas, bouzoukis, citterns, harps, electric instruments
Accessories sold: Hammers, strings, bridge tops
Components sold: Music Wire, wrest pins, bridge tops
 
Instrument Making history:
Hammered Dulcimer maker since 1978
 

Ian Clabburn
6 Greyfriars Road
DAVENTRY
Northants
NN11 4RS


Tel: 01327 705265
Email:

 
Hammered Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional, Bespoke
Used instruments: Sold, Part-exchanged
Repairs: Antique, Modern
Warranty Available
 
Accessories sold: strings, bridge tops, tuning levers, hammers, wrest pins
Components sold: as above plus outline drawings and instructions
 
Instrument Making history:
Hammered Dulcimer maker since 1980

Cottage Dulcimers
Alec Anness
72 Wisbech Road

Littleport

ELY

CB6 1JJ


Tel: 01353 863442

Email:

 
Hammered Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional, Bespoke
Used instruments: Sold, Bought, Part-exchanged
Repairs: Antique, Modern
 
Mountain Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional, Bespoke
Used instruments: Sold, Bought, Part-exchanged
Repairs: Antique, Modern
Warranty Available
 
Other instruments made: Chromatic & Diatonic Autoharps
Accessories sold: strings, bridge caps, hammers, tuning levers, folding stands, damper bar systems, custom-made flight cases
Components sold: Yes. Help, advice given. Tuition given on Hammered Dulcimer and other instruments
 
Instrument maker since 1975
Hammered Dulcimer since 1993
Mountain Dulcimer since 1972

MUSIC MAGIC
Tim Manning
12 Bath Road
FROME
Somerset

BA11 2HH


Tel: 01373 465596
Email:

  
Hammered Dulcimers: Student, Intermediate, Professional, Bespoke
Used instruments: Sold, Part-exchanged
Repairs: Antique, Modern
Warranty Available
 
Other instruments made: Tongue drums, Lyres, Aeolian Harps, Cymbalas, Plucked and Bowed Psalteries
Accessories sold: Hammers, stands, legs, tuners
 
Instrument maker since 1971
Hammered Dulcimer maker since 1993

Matthew Bascetta
72 Central Road
Port Sunlight

Wirral
CH62 5EJ
 

Tel: 0151 645 5200
Email:

   Mountain dulcimers: student, intermediate, professional and bespoke

Repairs:  antique and modern instruments

Other instruments made: Steel string and classical guitars, mandolins, bouzoukis, and any other fretted, stringed instrument
This information is provided by dulcimer makers who responded to the club's questionnaire. The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club and its committee are not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided, nor do they endorse any of the makers listed here. They recognise that other individuals and companies may provide similar services.