Wendy Grethen first touched the strings of a mountain dulcimer at a fair 27 years ago. She learned to play the Appalachian-region American folk instrument as a child in Illinois -- then stopped ...

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 ...

CANTON -- Making music is Steve Endsley's passion, and the Canton craftsman has found more than one way to do it. Endsley, a skilled mountain dulcimer player, has spent nearly two decades perfecting ...

Flat Mountain Dulcimers will be performing at R.A. Fountain General Store’s final show for the season at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. The trio, a favorite at R.A. Fountain, includes Nancy Galambush and Dave ...

The Mountain Dulcimers of Aiken will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, at Living Hope Fellowship Church, 2550 Old Dominion Road. Players of all levels and anyone interested in ...

BOONE — The sweet, melodic sounds of the mountain dulcimer will fill the air at the Jones House in Boone on Saturday, Aug. 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., as the Mountain Dulcimer Gathering (MDG) presents ...

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" ...

Boone, Hubert. "De Hommel in de Lage Landen." Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments Bulletin 5 (1975): 9-153. Bryan, Charles Faulkner. "The Hammered Dulcimer." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 18 ...

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 ...