The Strumstick

[@cybersean3000]

Place a capo in the first fret. Now you have the second mode of the D major scale, the Dorian mode. This is the D major scale, but played from E to E. It has a Latin music feel, used alot by Carlos Saantana.

[@nathanmarineau3993]

These are a lot of fun and easy to learn. But you can do some complicated licks on them as well. Great beginner instrument, with a lot of potential for growth.

[@UkuleleClub]

True!

[@johnhanover2229]

Just got my trail dulcimer same tuning. Looking forward to adding that layer to demos.

[@UkuleleClub]

Awesome

[@Alexzw92]

I saw one of bob selling these at the St Louis art show this past weekend, kind of sad that I didn't buy one for my future kids. I already play drums but am awful at guitar

[@nickfygetakes1027]

Neat!

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I wish I could have known about this instrument when I was 7 years old.

[@UkuleleClub]

Yeah- Would be nice!

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

@@UkuleleClub I was stuck with an electric guitar that I had no idea how to play.

[@kimalexander8378]

I still have the ukulele my mother gave me when I was 7 years old…and I’m a grandmama now. As a child, I learned to play a whole host of songs on it.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

@@kimalexander8378 that's wonderful! You're a self-taught musician like me.

[@Ponderingtaco]

I wanna get this so that I can just play the squidbillies outro theme whenever I feel like it

[@alanguages]

Can you give a suggestion on the easiest stringed instruments to play in order of easiest to "hardest"? I am new to it, so my guesses are: 1) The Strumstick 2) The Merlin 3) The Mountain Dulcimer 4) The Ukulele 5) Acoustic Guitar I have no idea about other stringed instruments like the lute, lyre, harp, whatever else around the world, where they would be on the easy list.

[@festbloch4135]

I would change the uku and the acoustic. Guitar is easiest as ukulele i think

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

There is an instrument from the renaissance called a cittern which is easy to play.

[@UkuleleClub]

Seems about right to me.

[@paulscherle6628]

My Brother in-law built me a similar strum stick and I promised him I would learn to play even one basic song. How do you tune it? Anyone offer basic lessons?

[@thestreetman5284]

top

[@roybrewster4872]

Give some very basic lessons for the musically challenged please. I am a uke fan, but the strumstick is easier.

[@skeletalfooot269]

Subscrito

[@yasararfathkamali713]

it's like a balgama ......

[@festbloch4135]

You play it good man ! Sounds good but : I really do not understand wy people persist in making instruments with diatonic keyboard while chromatic keyboards exist since the 9th century BJC! To say that it is a tradition (which dates from the seventeenth and fourteenth century in the countryside where people did not know well the lutherie and the solfege) is a heresy. It's fine for beginners but that's it. The cithares with sleeves will always remain shunned the time that people will make in diatonic. I have a epinette and a bass dulcimer in chromatic frettes and I lie serves in concert live and in my albums but my dulcimer diatonic I do not use it a lot because too limited.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Dunno, dude, Jon Anderson seems to like to use his strumstick in concerts... Bing Futch and Robert Force have been playing their dulcimers for decades in concert, they seem to be able to do quite a lot within the "limitations" ...

[@curtisnewton895]

looks like a dulcimer

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I think it is a dulcimer.