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 ...

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, ...

A group of students learn how to play the hammered dulcimer under the instruction of Chris Steiner at a church in Tipp City. A group of musicians are gathering in central Ohio this week to jam — but ...

(WBIR-Gatlinburg) It's a musical instrument with a sound you'll never forget. The sweet music of the mountain dulcimer. It takes a steady hand and an artist's eye to create the musical instrument.

It's also challenging because Bergmann grew up playing music in the aural tradition of folk cultures. She grew up in Richfield and lives in Brady Lake. Her mother took up the dulcimer in her 30s, and ...

MOUNT DORA — From the mountain, or Appalachian, dulcimer to the steel drum, the sound is the thing at the 12th Annual Central Florida Dulcimer and Autoharp Festival Friday and Saturday. The event will ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The list of qualifications for playing the mountain dulcimer is extremely short. In fact, there are none. Absolutely anyone can play the instrument, which is also called the ...

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 ...

Staff photo by Doug Strickland Musician Dan Landrum plays the hammer dulcimer on a rock in Suck Creek on Friday, June 12, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. The hammer dulcimer is a precursor instrument to ...

When Sarah Morgan’s grandfather first built the dulcimer that would find its way into her hands after his death, he likely had no idea of the trails she would blaze with it. Today, Morgan — who ...

A classically trained pianist who attended the renowned Juilliard School in New York, Rosamond Campbell admittedly once had a dismissive attitude toward folk and rock music. But in 1977, when ...