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#14 Vigilant

Holy guacamole!  This dulcimer has avocado sides and back.  My husband loves avocado so this dulcimer is his.  My friend Steve supplied the wood, he milled it himself, and it bent so easily, just like butter.  The grain is spectacular and the wood is light and easy to work.

Notice anything about the soundholes?  The upper ones are cockatiel and the lower ones cockatoo.

Name: Vigilant
Birthday: August 19, 2010
Composition: Double-backed Dulcimer with Avocado sides and inner back, walnut outer back, scroll and fretboard, Sitka spruce top, a zero fret and rosebood bridge and nut, VSL: 25 11/16", true diatonic fretboard
Strings:  .012, .012, .012, .022bw
Tuning:  DAA, Ionic mode

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