The Shelter Island Public Library presented an evening of traditional music on Monday, April 13, at St. Mary’s Community Hall ...

TAHLEQUAH -- Every year in May, the folks in Coshocton, Ohio, hold their "Dulcimer Days" celebration, dedicated to the stringed instrument best known for its use in Appalachian folk music. Strangely ...

A group of students learn how to play the hammered dulcimer under the instruction of Chris Steiner at a church in Tipp City.

Ever heard a Tool or Nirvana song played on a dulcimer? Inventive musicians are always coming up with ways to perform creative cover versions of their favorite songs; Anthony "Bones" Reid is no ...

The dulcimer is not a particularly loud instrument, but it has a very sweet tone. In fact, the name dulcimer is taken from words that mean "sweet sound." The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string ...

Dulcimer music; Neal Hellman, Michael Rugg, Robert Force, Albert d'Osscher, Bonnie Carol, Michael Hubbert, with vocals. Production notes: Recorded at Biscuit City Sound Recording Studios, Mar. 1977.

All it took was a visit to the annual dulcimer festival in Evart and Rose Wark was sold. The dulcimers delighted her. "If you go there, you kind of get hooked (on the dulcimers), if you write music," ...

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 ...

One of his dulcimers has a carved bear in the peg head — the beginning piece of the instrument. He used wood-burning techniques to make the hair for the bear, and included carved bear tracks for sound ...

The sweet sound of dulcimer music will fill the air Friday through Sunday during the Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club’s annual Smoky Mountain Dulcimer Retreat. The retreat will be attended by mountain ...