What's the consensus here about stick dulcimers? I'll fess up that I find them very interesting. I'm not talking so much about the Merlins, but the ones with the oval bodies, long diatonic necks and the standard mountain dulcimer string setups. Enough so that I've been messing around building this thing in my spare time. I'm not sure what to call it yet, but it's a large cigar box with a 27" scale, 4 strings with a DAD tuning and a resonator cone. Still to be installed are the frets in a diatonic tuning with 1+, 6+ and 10+ frets. Along with a standard electric pickup and an internal piez