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 ...

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 ...

The mountain dulcimer is a deceptively simple-looking instrument. Only about three feet long from tip to tip, with three strings and a neck full of frets, almost like a cross between a violin and ...

You can learn to play it in a few minutes, but it takes much longer to master it. The dulcimer is a traditional Appalachian stringed instrument. One East Tennessee man became an award winning dulcimer ...

STROUDSBURG — After about an hour of playing the mountain dulcimer, 11-year-old Cassidy Himmelberger already could play a round with her grandmother. The two strummed their wooden instrument together ...

Walt Michael, Common Ground on the Hill founder and hammered dulcimer player, will present two concerts this weekend. Michael will be joined by Bryan Bowers, Autoharp master, for a concert at 7:30 p.m ...

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SOUTH SHORE Nestled between the Ohio River and U.S. 23 sits a shed producing mountain dulcimers at the hands of Jeff Lambert. “All the sawdust work is done in here,” Lambert said, as he unlocked the ...

WOODBURN, Ind. (WANE) — In Woodburn, a music store tucked away between the local post office and a salon houses a unique instrument that cannot be found just anywhere: a dulcimer. Although the ...

Marvin Glueck of Oran, Missouri, fell in love with the dulcimer when he first heard one being played in Branson, Missouri, while on his honeymoon in 1980. It was then that he decided to learn to play.