This Serenade model Tindle Dulcimer is made from some very nicely figured Hawaiian Koa for the top, back, and sides. It features curly maple bindings and violin purfling on the top. It has a 26.5" VSL (vibrating string length) and a diatonic fretboard plus the 1.5, 6.5, & 13.5 extra frets.

The Serenade model is a full size mountain dulcimer with a clear, balanced tone. Its refreshing, inspiring voice sings with healthy volume and sweet sustain and does not sound "boxy" or "twangy".

This Custom Serenade has copper metal powder maple leaf inlays on the fingerboard and a copper, bronze, and silver Tree of Life inlay on the headstock. Other features include Macassary Ebony fingerboard, headstock overlay, and tailpiece, gold Gotoh tuning machines with black buttons, a hardshell case, and an LR Baggs bridge saddle pickup system with integral end-pin cable jack.

Audio Samples

The videos below are short audio samples of this specific dulcimer. Nothing can replace in-person playing and listening, but hopefully these samples will give you a good idea of this dulcimer’s particular voice.

We used one studio quality microphone directly above the dulcimer in roughly the same position as the player’s ears. The recording was done in a quiet, non-reverberant room, and no signal processing was performed on the resulting audio file.