CHIMNEY ROCK -- Ken Schoewe of Hendersonville saw a mountain dulcimer on the side of the road in Sylva some 14 years ago. The classical pianist was intrigued, and today, he is trying to share his love ...

Wendy Grethen first touched the strings of a mountain dulcimer at a fair 27 years ago. She learned to play the Appalachian-region American folk instrument as a child in Illinois -- then stopped ...

The Free Online Dictionary writes that a dulcimer, also called the Appalachian dulcimer and the mountain dulcimer, is, “A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four ...

(WBIR-Gatlinburg) It's a musical instrument with a sound you'll never forget. The sweet music of the mountain dulcimer. It takes a steady hand and an artist's eye to create the musical instrument.

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 ...

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, ...

The music will be sweet and the roots deep in La Crosse this week at what may be the first mountain dulcimer festival in this part of the state. For organizer Judson Steinback, it will be a reunion of ...

Ask her about the dulcimer. Three strings. Four, five; even those with scores. Mountain or hammered. Teardrop, hourglass or box. It doesn't matter. Just run any question about the dulcimer past Ruth ...

Think you need six strings, a stack of amps, and a few pedals to do justice to Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love'? Think again. In fact, as demonstrated in the video above by Connecticut musician Sam ...

Before setting out to tell a jaunty story about people who like to play the dulcimer, you could go on the Internet and read up on dulcimers and their Appalachian origins. You could even look on ...

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 things ...

More than 15 years ago, when Dan and Dona Benkert set up shop at a weekend craft show in Lockport, the Naperville couple figured it would be business as usual selling Dona’s homemade rag dolls.