Bob Mallalieu listened to the radio as he drove through Virginia about 10 years ago and heard an instrument that was new to him. He savored the sweet sound that filled his car. It wasn't until he ...

Lin Basinger never really held down a specific career. From instrument building to gunsmithing to jewelry making to falconry, ...

For Vickey Sasser, every dulcimer tells the story of Appalachia and America. The mountain dulcimer, a string instrument popular in American folk music, first appeared in America in the early 19th ...

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 ...

A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name. Festival ...

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 ...

yndi Lauper cradles one in photographs on her Web site. Aerosmith, known for hard rock songs and power ballads, incorporates one into its music. And, in the latest Martin Scorsese tale of urban unrest ...

Musicians with other instruments, including guitar, mandolin, fiddle and cello, join in with dulcimer players at a meeting of the Springfield Dulcimer Club. CONTRIBUTED Musicians with other ...

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 ...

BEIJING - Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is consumed by the reverberating notes. Liu, 54, a ...