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Somerset Folk Harp Festival 2025
July 2, 2025
Serrana 34 Now in Black
June 3, 2025
New FH34 stand in 5-inch and 8-inch height
June 2, 2025
Harp Regulation with the Dusty Harp Maintenance Kit
February 12, 2025
Somerset Harp Festival 2024
July 12, 2024
45th Anniversary Limited Edition Hammered Dulcimer
April 10, 2024
Ravennas vs. Other Brands - Lever Harp Comparison Video Playlists
March 1, 2024
Dusty Harps at the 2023 Somerset Folk Harp Festival
July 6, 2023
FH34S vs. FH36S - How do I choose?
March 23, 2023
FH34S: Our new lightweight, solid-wood, 34-string harp
March 24, 2022
What's going on with that new harp model?
March 11, 2022
Can I put fluorocarbon strings on my Dusty Strings harp?
August 20, 2021
Announcing the FH34S
July 21, 2021
New Kid on the Block
July 6, 2021
50th Annual Folklife Festival
May 27, 2021
Harp Seattle 2020 goes virtual throughout October!
September 29, 2020
QuaranTune: The Final Project
April 17, 2020
Making Protective Face Shields for Hospital Workers
April 9, 2020
QuaranTune: The Social Distancing Community Music Project
March 17, 2020
Flight Testing Our Carbon Fiber Harp Case
August 29, 2019
40th Anniversary Limited Edition FH36S
July 9, 2019
Dusty Strings Turns Forty!
May 16, 2019
CITES Regulations & Musical Instruments Containing Bubinga Wood - What To Know If You're Traveling Internationally
June 22, 2018
Creating a Humidity Tent for your Harp or Hammered Dulcimer
April 5, 2018
Love Letter from a Certified Music Practitioner
September 5, 2017
Summer Harp & Dulcimer Workshops at Dusty Strings Music School in Seattle
July 17, 2017
Serrana 34: Now taking orders!
June 19, 2017
Update on the Serrana 34 (formerly Mariachi 34)
June 1, 2017
2017 Harp Festivals
March 23, 2017
Coming Spring 2017: New Mariachi 34 Harp!
January 27, 2017
Stories from the Harp: Playing Harp with M.S.
December 22, 2016
How to Keep Your Harp or Hammered Dulcimer Safe from Cracking in the Winter Months
November 11, 2016
Quiz: Which harp wood are you?
September 15, 2016
Can I replace my nylon harp strings with gut?
August 17, 2016
The practicalities of therapeutic music from a dulcimer player's perspective
July 14, 2016
Stories from the Harp: Our Furry Companions
June 29, 2016
Stories from the Harp: We Can All Make a Difference
June 24, 2016
Stories from the Harp: How it Began
June 17, 2016
2016 Summer Harp Festivals
June 15, 2016
Stories from the Harp: Fourteen Years Later
June 6, 2016
Stories from the Harp: Weaving Hands
May 27, 2016
New Chromatic Dulcimer Models: First the D670, now the D570
May 5, 2016
Hammered Dulcimer in Film Scores
April 12, 2016
How to load an FH36 in its case
April 5, 2016
Harp Seattle 2016
March 7, 2016
New D670 Hammered Dulcimer: Super Bass on the Right and Left!
February 10, 2016
D550 Chromatic Hammered Dulcimer App for iPad
January 20, 2016
Crafting a Hand-inlaid Celtic Knot
November 18, 2015
Diary of a Harp Festival
October 29, 2015
Southeastern Harp Weekend 2015 (Oct. 23-25)
October 6, 2015
New rules for flying with musical instruments
September 29, 2015
Do I really need an extra set of harp strings?
August 15, 2015
Harps Going to Somerset 2015
June 25, 2015
Why You Really Do Deserve A Nice Instrument
June 17, 2015
Hammered Dulcimer: Tuning the Treble Bridge
May 22, 2015
Does a black soundboard make it easier to play the hammered dulcimer?
April 29, 2015
Stephen Peterson's Harp Story
March 30, 2015
Sanitizing Harps in Therapy Settings
March 11, 2015
Dusty Pedal Harp Pickup Video Demonstration
February 20, 2015
Harp is the New Guitar (or Singing With Your Harp)
February 10, 2015
Spring Fling Hammered Dulcimer Rendezvous
February 5, 2015
Harp Column Feature on Dusty Strings
February 2, 2015
Interview with Hammered Dulcimer Champion Karen Alley
January 26, 2015
When does wood choice in harps matter?
January 19, 2015
New Harp Recordings
January 14, 2015
Dulci-Tune: The Newest Tool for Dulcimer Players
December 10, 2014
Design Your Dream Harp in Rare Figured Pommele Sapele
November 4, 2014
Photos from Southeastern Harp Weekend 2014
October 29, 2014
Time Capsule: The Ravenna House c.1980
October 8, 2014
Dusty Harps at the 2014 Southeastern Harp Weekend
September 16, 2014
2014 Southeastern Harp Weekend
August 25, 2014
Inside The Shop: Making Harp Strings
August 19, 2014
Dusty Harp #001: Interview with Peter Berry
August 11, 2014
Time Capsule: 1980 Seattle Times Article
August 5, 2014
Plywood vs. Solid Wood Hammered Dulcimers
July 30, 2014
Sharping Levers: Camac vs. Loveland
July 24, 2014
Harps Going to the Somerset Folk Harp Festival
July 15, 2014
Harp Seattle Festival - October 2014
July 8, 2014
Building an Orphan Harp
July 1, 2014
Boulevards are Shipping!
June 24, 2014
2014 Somerset Folk Harp Festival
June 17, 2014
Can I really play that on a hammered dulcimer?
June 13, 2014
2014 American Harp Society Conference
June 5, 2014
Amplifying Your Harp: Preamps, D.I.s and Connecting the Dots
May 27, 2014
Amplifying Your Harp: What is all that other gear and how much of it do you really need?
May 20, 2014
Amplifying Your Harp: The Dusty Harp Pickup, Pedal Harp Pickup, and Jack Clamp
May 13, 2014
Amplifying Your Harp: Pickup vs. Microphone
May 6, 2014
New Concert Tension Lever Harp from Dusty Strings
April 29, 2014
Buzzing Harp Strings
April 22, 2014
Dusty Strings Hammered Dulcimer #1
April 15, 2014
