This is the JRS Concertmaster XR, featuring a VGD (Sitka Spruce over Mahogany).  One of a kind.  This is for the serious, professional player and/or recording artist, who is looking for a hammered dulcimer with the purest tone and best tonal balance available today.
 
Features include:
	
2/19/19/9 Bridge Configuration—4.5 octaves (Chromatic)
	
17 lbs.
	
Asymmetrical Body (Vertical Treble Bridge, closer Bass Bridge)
	
Tapered Variable Gradient Density Soundboard
	
(Sitka Spruce over Mahogany)
	
Mexican Royal Ebony laminated End Rails
	
Solid Northern Rock Maple Pin Blocks
	
Solid Tulip Poplar Back
	
Katalox Bridges inlaid with Curly Maple and Purpleheart Position Markers
	
Triple Spline Finger Joints at Bass Chamber
	
Double Spline Finger Joints at Treble Chamber
	
Tapered Pin Blocks
	
Solid Tulip Poplar Lateral Structural Bracing
	
Solid Brazilian Cherry Soundboard Support/Tone Truss
	
Solid Sitka Spruce Soundboard Struts
	
Celtic Knot Rosette Design
	
Standard JRS Filigree Corner Scrolls
	
18 Graduated String Gauges
	
Nitrocellulose Hand Rubbed Finish
	
Individually “Voiced”
	
Signed and Sealed Document of Origin and Authenticity
 
(Includes Tuning and String Gauge Chart, Star Tip “T” Handle Tuning Wrench, Battery Powered Digital Chromatic Tuner, JRS Hammers, String Polishing Cake,  Song of the Wood Case)