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First, the articles needs citations from folklorists or musical historians regarding the assertion that DAA is the traditional tuning -- as a counterexample, Bonnie Russell tunes her dulcimer to ddD, said to be the traditional tuning in her region of Virginia; other traditional players tune to dAD.
do not have a standard tuning but rather a "common" tuning that is used more frequently than others (e.g., banjo; lap steel guitar) are typically re-tuned to suit the music being played or the voice being accompanied and have no set "standard" at all (e.g., đàn nguyệt ; Appalachian dulcimer )
Guitar dulcimer: a hybrid of guitar and dulcimer, with the body more closely resembling a guitar, but the string configuration and pegs of a dulcimer. The stringing pattern on these instruments are frequently the reverse of the dulcimer, with low-pitched strings on the left and higher strings on the right, and they are usually held and played ...
DADGAD tuning D A D G A D , or Celtic tuning , is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music , though it has also found use in rock, folk, metal and several other genres. Instead of the standard tuning ( E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 ) the six guitar strings are tuned, from low to high, D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 A 3 D 4 .
Cross tuning or cross-tuning (aka scordatura) is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument. The term refers to the practice of retuning the strings; it also refers to the various tunings commonly used, or in some contexts it may refer to the AEAE fiddle tuning.
Unfortunately, there has to be a country that comes in last, and for me, it's Germany. That said, I've been twice, and the second time was better than the first.
There, the word dulcimer, which was familiar from the King James Version of the Bible, was used to refer to a three or four stringed fretted instrument, generally played on the lap by strumming. Variants include: The original Appalachian dulcimer; Various twentieth century derivatives, including Banjo dulcimer, with banjo-like resonating membrane
T-shaped tuning wrench Traditional piano tuning levers Post-Medieval tuning hammer. A tuning wrench (also called a tuning lever or tuning hammer) is a specialized socket wrench used to tune string instruments, such as the piano, harp, and hammer dulcimer, that have strings wrapped around tuning pins.