I've been practicing on the Hammered Dulcimer (click Stories above for the story about building it). I have a couple of simple examples I recorded yesterday. Scales is a collection of the different scales that my Hammered Dulcimer plays. An interesting part about the scales is that as you play them you'll hear the other strings vibrating - so there will be more notes than you might expect. Arpeggios is a collection of the different arpeggios that you can play with the same scales. These are pretty slow... but the idea was to let you hear the different notes of a Hammered Dulcimer.

The recording could probably be better. I'm recording it using a cheap microphone (I'll probably get a better one soon). The rest of the recording was done using my iBook (with AudioX) and an iMic. The mp3 is actually encoded as an mp3PRO format file which turns out to be pretty small. A plain old mp3 file of the scales turned out to be about 400kb. This mp3PRO version of the same scales (make stereo because the demo encoder insisted) turned out to be about 200k. The only trick here is that I broke out the two pieces on a PC. The rest of it was all done on my iBook.
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