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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...