Jess said: TOALL: A ducimer is one of the easiest instrumente to learn to play if you have any talent in that line. Jess I saw one of our Fender cousins yesterday, she came from Sophia and as you know I come from Nancy, we had a disscussion about you saying that Nancy Fender was the meanest woman who ever lived. LOL Well whatever she was she was mine. haha All dulcimers are different, and all who play do it a little differently, it is a lot of fun. My lines are all from eastern Kentucky both sides. Feltner, Brewer, Wooton, Baker, Hoskins, Fields, Alpha, Campbell, Couch, Cope, Nantz, Fender, Maggard, Adams, Robertson, Templeton, Melton, Turner, Lewis, and more. Penny in Laurel County Kentucky