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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 15 years ago, when Dan and Dona Benkert set up shop at a weekend craft show in Lockport, the Naperville couple figured it would be business as usual selling Dona’s homemade rag dolls.

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.

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 ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — CT Buzz celebrated ahead of International Appalachian Dulcimer Day on Saturday! Connecticut musician Sam Edelston has gone viral on YouTube with over one million views! His ...

VINTON, Va. (WDBJ) - An instrument unique to Appalachia is finding its way into the laps of more musicians in our area. The Roanoke Valley Dulcimer Group has been meeting together once a month since ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...