The mountain dulcimer is a deceptively simple-looking instrument. Only about three feet long from tip to tip, with three strings and a neck full of frets, almost like a cross between a violin and ...

Her local options were highly limited 20 years ago, so Vicki Gibboney picked up a pair of hammers — small ones — and went to work creating a new page in Aiken's music scene. The ...

Members of the Silver Strings Dulcimer Society filled the springtime air with the sweet sounds of a chorus of hammered dulcimers in front of Michigan’s Capitol on Tuesday. The society, based in Garden ...

First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Rochester is hosting a concert by a local mountain dulcimer group, the River Strings of St. Clair County. The 7 p.m. Friday, May 30 concert will ...

Warm tones of old-time music fill the living room of Gregg Schneeman’s Arcadia home, as he bends and gingerly plays his bowed psaltery. On another chair sits San Dimas resident Leo Kretzner, who ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The list of qualifications for playing the mountain dulcimer is extremely short. In fact, there are none. Absolutely anyone can play the instrument, which is also called the ...

Paul Babcock considers himself lazy. That might explain why the Long Beach resident still isn’t proficient in playing the dulcimer, despite being introduced to the instrument nearly six years ago.

Warm tones of old-time music fill the living room of Gregg Schneeman’s Arcadia home, as he bends and gingerly plays his bowed psaltery. On another chair sits San Dimas resident Leo Kretzner, who ...