Mountain Dulcimer Chords

Explore the Mountain Dulcimer chords its diatonic frets can play, organized by root note and chord type. D#, F and A# sound nowhere on this fretboard, so a chord is charted only where a grip for it lands on real frets — some roots and chord types simply are not on the instrument.

Start with the open shapes around the home key, then work up the neck. A grip does not slide to another key on diatonic frets, so each chord higher up is its own shape. Send any chord to the fretboard explorer to study its notes, or cross over to scales and progressions to see how these chords fit together.