Dead string

I've made a few guitars and stick dulcimers and I'm having a problem. It seems the lowest (thickest) string sounds fine unfretted, but when I fret it, it sounds dead. As I fret towards the neck it gets worse. What have I done wrong and how do I correct it? It is not a wound string. If it were could that make it sound better?

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