Mountain dulcimer group provides neighborhood soundtrack in Aiken. The Aiken group, with membership being of traditional retirement age, largely went into hibernation due to COVID-19 fears, ...

SOUTH SHORE Nestled between the Ohio River and U.S. 23 sits a shed producing mountain dulcimers at the hands of Jeff Lambert. “All the sawdust work is done in here,” Lambert said, as he ...

Some players are also members of the Mountain Dulcimer Society of Dayton. And while many members are senior citizens, younger members — even interested children — are welcome. “Just show up.

The mountain dulcimer was created in the Appalachian mountains in the early 1800s, but the instrument's history goes back much further. Even King Nebuchadnezzar recognized the allure of the dulcimer.

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 ...

Long-time Reston resident Ralph Lee Smith, 91, is one of the nation's foremost players of the mountain dulcimer. He will perform in a free concert at City of Fairfax Regional Library with Madeline ...

CARBONDALE — Kentucky musician Molly McCormack will perform songs on the mountain dulcimer at the Southern Illinois Learning in Retirement (SILIR) meeting at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. She will ...

Most mountain dulcimers range in price from $300 to $2,000, Endsley said. Some builders use kits to assemble the instruments, but his are all custom-made.

The Mamma Mia star learned the dulcimer during the pandemic, ... Fallon is able to produce an actual, mic’d up, headstock tuner-equipped mountain dulcimer from underneath his desk, ...

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.