Wendy Grethen first touched the strings of a mountain dulcimer at a fair 27 years ago. She learned to play the Appalachian-region American folk instrument as a child in Illinois -- then stopped ...

Maylee Samuels has been playing the dulcimer for 30 years, and in advance of a local dulcimer St. Patrick's Day-themed workshop set for March 14, she offered me a lesson. "It's one of those things ...

Dulcimers have quite a following with folks from Southwest Ohio. Sweet strains of folk ballads, classical music — even swinging country and rock ‘n’ roll tunes — can be played on the four-string ...

Four years ago, I had never heard of a dulcimer, which is a musical instrument. Now, it seems like everyone plays it, including me. Just recently, I was in the library and ran into a co-worker.

On Sept. 2 at the Camp Street Cafe and Store, the society joined by a Texas state champ and several national dulcimer champions, celebrated its 10th anniversary. "The whole group started playing music ...

Starting tomorrow evening and continuing all weekend long, Jonesborough’s Dulcimer Weekend kicks off Friday night during the town’s Music On The Square. The beautiful sound of the dulcimer will be ...

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

MCALLA, Alabama – The Appalachian dulcimer is an instrument with its roots in the early 19 th century and is still going strong to this day. Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park has been known to ...

A bunch of Yankees up here are making hillbilly musical instruments. Folkcraft Instruments produces dulcimers, laptop strummers with roots in Appalachia. The small shop tucked into a hillside off Main ...

The music will be sweet and the roots deep in La Crosse this week at what may be the first mountain dulcimer festival in this part of the state. For organizer Judson Steinback, it will be a reunion of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BENNINGTON, Okla. – Backs, braces, sound ...