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 ...

A musical instrument popular in the time of Alexander the Great and immortalised in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is close to disappearing, its only manufacturer has warned. The dulcimer - ...

"The dulcimer," he said, "had just about died out." But it didn t, and for proof, you need only visit the Midland County Fairgrounds this weekend. Fifty years ago, says John Skayrd of Saginaw, "there ...

Four years ago, I had never heard of a dulcimer, which is a musical instrument. Now, it seems like everyone plays it, including me. Just recently, I was in the library and ran into a co-worker.

HINDMAN, KY. — The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known as ...

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 ...

The community has been known as the homeplace of the mountain dulcimer ever since a revered maker, James Edward Thomas, known as Uncle Ed, pushed a cartload of angelic-sounding dulcimers up and down ...