Nomad Package 16/15 Hammered Dulcimer

This is the hammered dulcimer for someone who really wants to dive in. Two octaves and several keys will keep you busy learning all the tricks and nuances of the instrument. Good for a beginner musician or someone who knows they want to go all the way with the hammered dulcimer, because this is built to last.  The Nomad is a 16/15 dulcimer, meaning there are 16 courses of strings on the middle bridge and 15 courses on the right bass bridge. This gives you two and a half octaves in several keys. This instrument is tuned diatonically and is great for beautiful modal tunes and more complicated songs.  For the beginner, tuning is the most daunting obstacle, not really difficult, but at first it seems so. If the dulcimer is out of tune, it is unpleasant to play, and if tuning it seems like a big project, one sometimes gives up, and just doesn’t play. Our theory is that a dulcimer that is in tune gets played more, and the player makes much faster progress. Learn to play first, and tuning wil