The Free Online Dictionary writes that a dulcimer, also called the Appalachian dulcimer and the mountain dulcimer, is, “A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four ...

Give a musician a new musical instrument with no instructions on how to play it, and sometimes something wonderful happens. At least it did with Butch Ross. Ross, performing Monday night at Grace ...

The Blue Ridge Mountain Dulcimer Players will offer demonstrations, styles of playing and hands on participation with the mountain dulcimer on Aug. 20 at the Humpback Rocks Farm, Milepost 5.8 of the ...

The Friends of Cloudland Canyon will present a concert by the internationally-known mountain dulcimer soloist, Stephen Siefert on Friday, Oct. 4. Not only an exceptional dulcimer player, Stephen is ...

Warm tones of old-time music fill the living room of Gregg Schneeman’s Arcadia home, as he bends and gingerly plays his bowed psaltery. On another chair sits San Dimas resident Leo Kretzner, who ...

Jonesborough’s Dulcimer Week celebrates the role of the Appalachian mountain dulcimer in American life with seven days of dulcimer-infused performances, workshops and hands-on opportunities to ...

The soft thrum of thin strings flowed out of the Kansas Room as patrons and staff celebrated Kansas Day at the Hutchinson Public Library on Saturday. Patrons heard Daniel Kelley's "Home on the Range" ...

A cul-de-sac in Houndslake had a unique atmosphere Monday afternoon, courtesy of the Mountain Dulcimers of Aiken, as the musical group gave a performance, offering some relief for local residents who ...

Sam Edelston is a man on a mission. The Greenwich musician wants to make dulcimers as popular to the world as guitars, trumpets, pianos, harps, you name it. Dulcimers? ... Yes, dulcimers. Edelston ...

The 12th annual Pocono Winter Dulcimer Festival will gather dulcimer players from all over the country for two days of workshops and a concert. The popular festival is the creation of Pocono residents ...

Musicians rightfully get the credit for the music they create on their instruments. But what about the instruments themselves? Where do they come from? What makes them special? For three ...