The Mountain Dulcimer Building Class at the Northeast Dulcimer Symposium is an opportunity to take the Bear Meadow Introductory Class while enjoying the company of a small convivial group of students of the dulcimer and other instruments, in the gorgeous deep woods and lakes of New York State's Adirondack region.

"In our dulcimer building classes…we look closely at the wood, tap on it, turn it over and over in our hands, listen to it. 

Though we use a power tool here and there, the real focus is on learning to use our hands, and the tools that fit our hands. The focus is on coming to realize how the hundred small acts of forming wood result in a dulcimer, and how that attention— utterly unworried about the final outcome but instead learning the ways your hands work — produces a musical instrument of real character, bearing the actual mark of the maker's hand; not a mimicry of mechanical perfection, but the character of men and women at work, at play, making music. The results are unfailingly and instantly beautiful."

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