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 ...

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 ...

happened to have a dulcimer behind him, and he handed it to Seyfried to play. She launched into the opening notes and verse of California by Joni Mitchell, offering the audience a short and ...