Sheitholt

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Make: German /American

Model: Sheitholt

Ca.: 1850

Serial Number: None

Measurements: 31 1/2" long; 15 frets; 5 1/2" wide at lower bout; 8 strings; vibrating string length 25".

Condition: Good

This German-American sheitholt was bought at an auction in Virginia. (The American dulcimer was patterened after the German sheitholt.) It was a consignment by Roddy Moore. Germans settled in the mountains very early and possibly brought sheitholts with them. They also made sheitholts from American wood: this instrument is made from American tulip poplar and painted black.