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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

When Helen Bankston first heard the mountain dulcimer playing on the streets of Asheville, North Carolina, she couldn’t have imagined that she and four other Baton Rougeans would form a society ...

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 ...

Bing Futch is a man of the people. The Florida-based performer is best known for his dynamic facility on the mountain dulcimer, an instrument with Appalachian origins. And, while Futch can pluck and ...

A musical instrument popular in the time of Alexander the Great and immortalised in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is close to disappearing, its only manufacturer has warned. The dulcimer - ...