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Preventing damage in extreme heat and cold: Temperature can have quite adverse effects on stringed instruments. If you need anything more than a light jacket, your instrument is going to feel some effects from cold. And if you are baking in a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals, chances are your dulcimer is suffering too. Moderate temperatures are the best for stringed instruments.

The best thing to do to protect your instrument from cold shocks is to loosen the strings. This will kept the tension from increasing due to cold. It will also release the overall stress on the instrument. Don't take them all the way down to slack. You want to get them so the strings are still taut, perhaps an octave down. While it is cold, the instrument's wood and finish, as well as some fittings, will be more liable to damage from shock, so avoid hard knocks.

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What  is it ?

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

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Dulcimer Wisdom

Beautiful young people are acts of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.