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 ...

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 ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Forerunners -- 3. The dulcimer's origins -- 4. The santur -- 5. The hackbrett -- 6. The Cimbalom family -- 7. The pantaleon -- 8. The salerio -- 9. The French psalterion and ...

CHARLESTON — The Five Mile House plans to host a dulcimer concert and a talk on two area historical mysteries during an open house from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 26. The event will begin with a ...

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

Ninety-two-year-old Irene Radcliffe wasn't quite sure what she was looking at when she brought down a heavy wooden box from her attic. But she knew it was something special. Also a little puzzled was ...