LATEST NEWS - 7/11/2025
NEW RUN OF DULCIMERS
We are happy to announce that we are ready to begin a new run of instruments in the next few weeks. Robert's hand is healing (there is still a ways to go) but he is able to start building dulcimers again. Unfortunately there are some other issues that limit the amount of time he can spend in the shop so we are estimating that this run will take around four to six months to complete.
Due to Janita's shoulder surgery and recovery she is still unable to do inlay so we will be filling orders which do not require custom inlay or the Style II standard white rose or the Jean Ritchie "Hearts-a-Flower" inlay.
We are currently contacting those on the waitlist in the order in which they were listed and whose instrument can be built either with our mother of pearl position markers or no inlay.
We know you have been waiting a long time and we truly appreciate your patience and understanding.
WAITLIST STILL SUSPENDED
For the time being, we are no longer accepting orders to be placed on our waitlist. We are still at least a year out to complete the orders already in place and we don't want to keep adding orders at this point.
We are not able to work as long in the shop as we used to and it is taking longer to complete a production run due to health factors well beyond our control.
We've had several people contact us saying that they had heard we are no longer building dulcimers; this is not correct. We have not retired and we are not planning on closing Blue Lion anytime soon. We just need some time to catch up and to give our bodies some time to heal.
For those of you already on our waitlist, rest assured we are still planning on building your instruments.
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