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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aug. 16—FAIRMONT — For generations, the Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, the region's iconic musical instrument, has been producing high, lonesome sounds and rollicking rhythms just this side of rock 'n ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WOODBURN, Ind. (WANE) — In Woodburn, a music store tucked away between the local post office and a salon houses a unique instrument that cannot be found just anywhere: a dulcimer. Although the ...