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Trying my hand in building a stick dulcimer this time round. Top spruce, bottom Sapele, maple sides, beech neck, 630mm scale length

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 piezo pickup with the associated switches and wiring. This test string up and tuning was more to figure out where the frets need to go using an electronic tuner. I tried to use some of the online fret calculators, but I was getting different answers for some of the frets, with those being significantly off. But it was sounding great once I got it into DAD tuning using a 026w, 017, 011 & 010 strings that were odd spares I had just laying around. Anyway, I was mainly wondering if stick dulcimers were off topic here as I'm starting to really like this one.