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 ...

Jimmy Fallon finally got the chance to break out the dulcimer he always keeps behind his Tonight Show desk just in case any of his guests are adept at playing the instrument — such as Amanda Seyfried.

MUMBAI, October, 29, 2012 – Internationally acclaimed musician Max ZT joined Asia Society India Centre for a demonstration of the hammered dulcimer, while exploring the rich history of the instrument, ...

The Hammered Dulcimer Making a Hammer Dulcimer Although the art of hammer dulcimer playing once appeared to be dying, a revival of interest has been slowly spreading in recent years. People unfamiliar ...

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 ...

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.

When a pale wooden trapezoid with strings was donated to the St Vincent de Paul Society last month, it initially baffled staff at the charity's Darwin opportunity shop. It took an inquiring post to ...

It’s hard not to be charmed by the first image in Noelle Micarelli’s submission to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest: a miniature mountain dulcimer sitting on a truly tiny desk, beside a small porcelain ...