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Where To Start
If you're new to harp or dulcimer, try our beginner guides as a starting point to get oriented!
Welcome to Dusty Strings! We are a small, family-owned business in Seattle, Washington. Since 1979, we have been following our dream of building harps and hammered dulcimers and helping others to fulfill their dreams of making music. Over the years, we've earned a reputation for caring about our instruments and the people who play them, and this shows itself both in the quality of our craftsmanship and the quality of our customer interactions. If you have any questions about our instruments or if you don't even know what questions to ask, we encourage you to give us a call. There will always be a friendly voice on the other end of the telephone!
Somerset Harp Festival, here we come! Our seventeen (!) show harps have been tuned, packed, and shipped on two pallets from Seattle, WA to Parsippany, NJ, and we'll be getting on a plane ourselves next week. Read on for the full list.
Our 45th anniversary happens to coincide with building our 20,000th hammered dulcimer, which is something we're pretty proud of! To mark the occasion, we've designed a limited edition dulcimer incorporating highly-figured bubinga, among other decorative details.
