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"In a very real sense, I am these instruments:
I build each of them from beginning to end,
use them on stage, in the recording studio, and in teaching.
My name is inside each one...and although I can no longer remember
each person who bought one, it's good to keep in touch
and see how the instrument is aging,
where your music is going--
or if you need a repair."
Jerry Rockwell
PO Box 79
Guysville, OH 45735-0079
Phone/FAX: 740-818-3911
E-mail: jcrockwell@gmail.com
There are currently several shapes to choose
from.
Large Deep Teardrop
This model has a plaintive,
sweet traditional sound,
and is available in cherry
(as shown), or cherry with a walnut soundboard. Its simplicity,
of which I am very fond, focuses attention on the acoustics.
$395
Photos © copyright 1996
by Stan Alost. All rights reserved.
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North Carolina Hourglass
This is an hourglass shape reminiscent
of the great North Carolina dulcimer makers Clifford and Leonard
Glenn, and Frank Proffitt.
The dulcimer shown here is all walnut with a spruce soundboard:
it has a graceful, elegant tone that is well-suited to delicate
fingerpicking styles.
Since I was first asked for them, hummingbirds have become one
of my favorite soundhole shapes.
Other woods are available, as well.
$550
Large Hourglass,
Kentucky Shape and
Baritone
These models represent my "heavy artillery" --they
are all high performance dulcimers.
The one shown here is my personal concert instrument, a 6-string
with
Black Locust sides and back, spruce soundboard, and walnut fingerboard.
The "baritone" version is a 4-string which has slightly
deeper sides and is strung heavier --to tune a 4th lower than
normal (A-E-A).
Other woods are available.
$950
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