WINTER HAVEN | When Janet Howard heard the hammered dulcimer for the first time about two years ago at a talent show, she knew she had to learn more. At first it sounded kind of like a piano, but as ...

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 ...

The Carolina String Academy is hosting a beginners' workshop on the hammered dulcimer Aug. 1. Ten- to 18-year-olds interested in the stringed musical instrument are invited to attend. With the ...

Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills will host a basic mountain and hammered dulcimer workshops on Sunday, April 22. Musician Dona Benkert will provide the instruction on these stringed instruments.

CALEDONIA — Evie Belland of Mount Pleasant acquired an interest in the hammered dulcimer after going to a folk music festival about 20 years ago. She bought one of her own in hopes of learning how to ...

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 ...

DANVILLE — Twenty-five years ago this past summer, a group of dulcimer enthusiasts met in the Danville house of one of their members to share their love of the stringed instrument. What originally ...

MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...

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 ...