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If you tune it DAAA, and play it drone style with the tonic (key of D) note d on the third fret (ionian mode), then you can more easily play tunes just on the melody string and leave the other strings to drone open. That's especially fun for kids.
Oh, but that would necessitate that you have enough frets to reach the octave high note. (Often these stick dulcimers only reach the 7th note of an octave if your scale starts on the open string, not on the 3rd fret.)
Glad that you are having fun !
You say it's fretted diatonic, but I'm betting it has the one 'extra non-diatonic' fret that dulcimer players call the 6.5 fret.... which enables one to play in ionian mode from the open string... hence the DAdd tuning.
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