Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed "mountain" or "plucked" dulcimer, although the two have nothing in common except ...

With a bit of research, I learned some of the instrument's long history. The mountain dulcimer was created in the Appalachian mountains in the early 1800s, but the instrument's history goes back ...

She is right. Maylee Samuels and Jan Risher play mountain dulcimers in Samuel's Baton Rouge home on Feb. 20, 2025. Sitting with the long, three-stringed instrument in my lap and making ...

Submitted The Fulton Heights Neighborhood Association invites the community to a free concert featuring nationally-known mountain dulcimer musician Sam Edelston. The concert is scheduled for April 13, ...

I just liked the instrument. This is the Appalachian mountain dulcimer. It's related to instruments in Norway and Sweden. We have the hummel in Sweden. And in Norway, we have the langeleik.

Actor and singer Amanda Seyfried has set a studio audience and its presenter – and now the internet – off by skilfully covering a Joni Mitchell song on the dulcimer. The dulcimer. That’s right. The ...

His music draws attention, as does the instrument he plays it on. “The mountain dulcimer is technically part of the zither family, and a zither is any stringed instrument where the strings go ...