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The Strumstick is a terrific tool for family music. People of many ages can learn and play the Strumstick. Several Strumsticks strumming together make a wonderful sound, and the group does not have to be "tight" to make some great sounds. The Strumstick is very forgiving in ensemble play. Families can pass around the Strumstick, play several Strums... ticks, or add Strumstick to guitar and piano and other instruments to give the kids a chance to play along with more advanced players. The Strumstick is musically a distant cousin of the Appalachian dulcimer (fretted dulcimer). Like the dulcimer, the strings are tuned in a drone relationship (octaves and fifth). Also like the dulcimer, the frets are arranged to give a major scale. What makes the Strumstick different from the dulcimer is that you hold the Strumstick like a guitar or a mandolin (the dulcimer sits on your lap). This position opens many possibilities for playing using guitar techniques for picking, strumming, and fingerpicking, and you can play it standing up (difficult to do with the dulcimer. Because of the similarity, a lot of Dulcimer music (readily found on the web)can be easily adapted to the Strumstick. See Using Dulcimer Music With Strumstick for details. If the Strumstick sounds like a remarkable tool for learning music, for people of all ages, well, it is!. We designed the Strumstick to sound great, look great, and be really easy to play, right from the start. If beginners have fun, they keep playing, that's just the way it is. The Strumstick is so much fun for beginners to play, it encourages them and frustration is just not an issue. The Strumstick is also a great beginning guitar trainer. The early months of beginning guitar are spent learning to move your fingers in a coordinated way, and are not fun, they are frustrating, and many people quit guitar at this stage. With the Strumstick, you are learning finger control while having a lot of fun, and no frustration. A few months of Strumstick playing makes learning guitar much easier, and ...Read More