Concert Teardrop

The Concert Teardrop is a cousin of the Concert Hourglass. Built on the same mold as the Baby Grand, it is slightly shallower in the rib, as in the Concert Hourglass. And like the Baby Grand, it is a full voiced instrument, with a well developed range. The Concert Teardrio is unornamented, making it an excellent choice for performers or studio artists who do not desire the visual presence yet want something of the voice of the Baby Grand.

The Concert Teardrop is similar to the NDS Concert Loon teardrop built as an option in my classes in Dulcimer Building at the Northeast Dulcimer Symposium, and in the Initiate Session of my Bear Meadow Apprentice Program.

The instrument features the Concert Series scroll head carving. The leaf motif in the Concert Series peghead is a recent development, funded by a generous commission for a recent client.

The Concert Series scroll tailpiece features ebony appointments: string pins set in an ebony bed, end cap, and a string bridle. The string bridle increases the break angle of the strings behind the bone saddle, opening up the voice considerably.

Dimensions:

• Overall length: 41"
• Overall height: 3-1/8"
• Height of rib: 1-7/8"
• width at minor bout: 6"
• width at major bout: 7-1/2"
• width at waist: 4"
• Fretboard length (nut to tailpiece): 34-1/4"
• Vibrating string length: 27-5/8" (customizable to 26" or 26-7/8")

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Equipment:

• wooden pegs
• options as selected:
  • Pegheds® planetary pegs
  • Caspari Caspari Pegs
  • Banjo tuners
  • Rosewood Banjo buttons
  • Fishman custom piezo-electric acoustic pickup
  • RMC piezo-electric integrated saddle/MIDI system
  • Case
  • Strap
  • Spruce Tonewood
  • Zircote Fingerboard
  • Abalone Position Dots

See the Ordering Page for price and ordering details.

You can email Dwain Wilder at Contact Us.

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