Why I buy this one ?
- StrollingTrapezoidal Shape
- Full linings attaching top and back to sides
- Two crossbraces each on top and back
- Adjustable trussrod
- Color: Blue

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What our customer's say!

"good for a decorative piece", this item is made of cheap wood and is not able to be tuned. when i tried to tune it for the first time the screw in the bridge was pull up throughthe wood leaving an unfixxable gaxs.

it is ok looking and would make a good decorative piece but nothing more. think very hard about it before you spend your money on this item!

"Decent Backpacker Clone", This is not a dulcimer. This is obviously a cheap knockoff of the Martin Backpacker. That said, it is still a fun little knockaround guitar. Once you figure out the floating bridge and exactly how to tune the thing (which is not entirely futile), you can get some good sound from it. It is not solid wood in any way shape or form, except possibly the neck, but that has no impact on tone, really.

This is just a cheap piece of garbage, but it IS FUN TO PLAY! SERIOUSLY! If you are away from home and do not want to take your good guitar out with you, just take this little thing. If you fall on it and totally tear it to bits, what's the loss?

Then again, if you're getting this little backpacker clone from this guy, you're paying way too much. You should pay about $1.00 or LESS for the guitar.

I would advise getting on ebay and looking up "Backpacker" as you can get this exact same guitar for $1.00. Yes...Just one dollar. I was extremely surprised to see this on here for $30. That's how much mine cost in total with the gig-bag, strings, picks, tuner, and shipping and handeling and insurance. If you get this from this guy on Amazon, you are getting screwed. If you purchased this already, you should go get the lube, my friend.

I give this 4 stars because you get what you pay for, and nothing more. If all else fails, you've gotten yourself a decent gig-bag for your future Martin Backpacker. Personally, I got it while I wait for my wife to let me have my real guitar for Christmas.

"Not a Dulcimer", This is actually not any sort of dulcimer. It is a sort of cheap knockoff of Martin's Backpacker guitar. The Martin is quite clever in that the neck and sides are all one piece of wood. This one is merely a neck glued to a similarly shaped body. The construction and finish are rather crude. The fretboard is whatever nondescript wood dyed black, body is plywood, and the finish looks like sprayed enamel.

This guitar differs from the Martin BP in having a floating bridge and tailpiece. The bridge is deeply slotted, which robs tone (what tone you could get from the small plywood body), but is necessary in order to get a more reasonable spacing of the strings, since the tailpiece is way too narrow (and probably from a children's toy guitar). I could position the bridge to give reasonable intonation, but the break angle of the strings is too small to give good tension on the bridge. The tuners are about in par for the rest of the gutiar. They do turn, actually, just not well.

Actually, I mostly wrote this review to point out that the demensions are similar to the Backpacker. The guitar is actually nearly 36 inches long, not the 24 or 25 inches described.

In short, you are getting what you pay for. And $30 for a guitar will not get you much.

"Nice for Beginner - All Others - Find a Real Dulcimer", First, this is more of a strum stick than a bona fide dulcimer.
It will be hard to find music for a 6 stringer, but you can adapt the strings to a D-A-D configuration. You play this like a cheap guitar.

Second, it should always be priced in the $30 range or less because it is inexpensive quality and mass produced so this advertisement about "Blowout Sale - Today Only" which has been going on for awhile really isn't true. It is not worth $90+ to begin with.

Third, you will need a tuner because this strum stick comes untuned. It does come with a nice carrying case, extra string, and a pick.

Conclusion: If you want to play an authentic 3-4 string dulcimer on your lap like the original musicians did and do, this is not the instrument for you.