Irish reel 'Eileen Curran' aka 'The Sailor's Return' - Hammered Dulcimer 

I’m sooo happy I was able to help you find this tune again! And I’m glad you love the tune. It’s a fantastic reel. I learned it from Maggie Sansone’s album “Mist & Stone” track 5. She crushes it 🔥

Practice, mate! Lots of practice! You develop what’s known as “finger memory”, or maybe more accurately in this case, “hand memory “.

I think you mean using the bounce off the strings to play the next note. Its skill. Just practice and stay loose!

Yes he's really too good to be true, and must have a beautiful character too! Wherever he is...As he won't say!....

This one was built by myself and a friend of mine, but I would check out Rick Thum, Songbird, Master Works, and Dusty Strings. Unfortunately dulcimers are not cheap, but Rick Thum and Songbird have some of the lowest cost options that I know of

As long as it has some resonant frequencies... Why not?

The hammered dulcimer, a predecessor to the modern piano, is an ancient instrument which is found in many cultures under various names. The hackbrett, tympanon, cymbalom, tsymbaly, psaltery, salterio, santur, teadchlar, yangqin, and khim are all variations of, or related to, the hammered dulcimer. In the British Museum there are even ancient Egyptian engravings of musicians playing similar instruments. In the Accademia Gallery in Florence, just around the corner from Michelangelo's statue of David, you can even find one made out of marble! It's fun to contemplate how humans across the world have been making versions of this particular instrument for centuries. ;)

I don’t unfortunately. I figured it out by ear. I learned it from Maggie Sansone’s recording of it on her Mist and Stone album

This one was built by myself and a friend of mine 🙂

@@EvanPlaysDulcimer Wow! Are there more of those available? I have a smaller one (12/12) with the same light colored wood, which I prefer, but a larger one with this same light colored wood is not easy to find.