Bought a folkcraft pathfinder 15/14 hammered dulcimer. Originally 930, got it for 600 used. Second best sounding one they had at the store out of 7. Ugliest looking one, still looks OK. Seems a decent price.

So it sounds beautiful. Hammered dulcimers generally do. The problem is they're tuned into major keys. That's why all the songs one hears suck. For starters retuning to just c major/a minor. But will probably eventually go to c sharp minor, the ultimate key. And may go further but first want to read up on just how much away from the original tuning you can go. Guy said a full step. I wonder if you can go a bit further. Could make it a lot more interesting if the notes weren't in succession.

I need to keep track of how racquet/stringing combinations hit/felt.

prostaff 6.1 stretch 95 with TNT 2 tour at 43. Hit good but eventually seemed like my elbow wasn't great. Elbow wasn't horrible but TNT2 tour is a "crisp" string and seemed like elbow was worse then when I was using natural gut in the Prince Graphite Classic Longbody at 50. So far that hit the best and felt the best on my elbow, though elbow still wasn't 100%, have to be careful to keep arm pretty straight on my serves.

NXT at 44 in prostaff stretch 95. Not awful but really not as good as the natural gut at 50 in the PGCL.

Some kind of poly in prostaff 6.0 85. Elbow I think wasn't so good. Didn't even attempt to serve. Highly unlikely I can play with a poly.

Going to put natural gut in the prostaff 6.1 stretch 95 next and NXT in the prostaff 85.

PGCL-11.6 ounces 10HL flex 61, swing weight 334
Can't find specs for prostaff 6.1 stretch 95... Racquet technology is idiocy. No one makes longer racquets or smaller head frames. Stuck trying to find used discontinued models on ebay. Got a Lendl Kneisel the other day. But if I love it, what then? Anyway still haven't found it's specs either. Curious what the headframe size is...