Jerry C. Rockwell is a fulltime musician/hand builder of acoustic and electric mountain dulcimers based in Guysville, Athens County, Ohio. He has been working with MIDI and electronic music tools since the advent of the Mac and FM synthesis; composing, recording, and publishing music with a range of influences from jazz/blues/traditional roots to microtonal. He writes an email newsletter devoted to music theory and improvisation for mountain dulcimer players and folk musicians and maintains a website at www.jcrmusic.com that covers his continuing musical enquiries (grooves, polyrhythms, improvising, and alternate tunings and temperaments) as well as showcasing his mountain dulcimers. Jerry graduated from the School of Music at The Ohio State University cum laude in 1989, where his principal instrument was jazz guitar.