Dulcimer lovers unite every January in the Poconos at the annual Pocono Winter Dulcimer Fest. This is the 13th year for the popular festival that brings two different types of dulcimer lovers together ...

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.

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 ...

A musical instrument popular in the time of Alexander the Great and immortalised in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is close to disappearing, its only manufacturer has warned. The dulcimer - ...

WANTAGE -- Her hands hovered over the mass of strings, thumbs and wrists working closely to flip the decorative wooden hammers onto the strings. As Donna Traylor played, Merle Tanis was making similar ...

HINDMAN, KY. — The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known as ...

When Sam Edelston strolls onstage with a delicate three-string mountain dulcimer, audiences expect him to deliver quaint folk music. “Then I plug in, blast out ‘Smoke on the Water,’ and they go ‘Whoa, ...

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 ...

Tina Bergmann and Bryan Thomas will perform on hammered dulcimer and bass in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Betzler Auditorium at Walsh University in North Canton. Admission is $6 for ages 13 and ...

NORTHUMBERLAND — Tom Jolin has been playing the music of Appalachia for decades. The folk artist and instrument builder is fulfilling a two-week residency with the fifth-graders at the Priestley ...

In Kentucky, where music is the lifeblood, an apprentice program run by luthiers provides meaningful jobs and helps remove the stigma of opioid addiction. Credit...Mike Belleme for The New York Times ...