The Advocate

Learning to play the dulcimer can lead to more than making music: Jan Risher

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 ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Folk Center workshop gathers hammered-dulcimer players

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Student-centered instruction, afternoon concerts and daily jam sessions are some of the reasons the Ozark Folk Center State Park’s Hammered Dulcimer Workshop attracts instrumentalists ...
The Ledger

Dulcimer group making music in the park

WINTER HAVEN | When Janet Howard heard the hammered dulcimer for the first time about two years ago at a talent show, she knew she had to learn more. At first it sounded kind of like a piano, but as ...
insider.si.edu

The Hammered Dulcimer

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 ...
The Norman Transcript

Old-fashioned dulcimer music: How sweet the sound

TAHLEQUAH -- Every year in May, the folks in Coshocton, Ohio, hold their "Dulcimer Days" celebration, dedicated to the stringed instrument best known for its use in Appalachian folk music. Strangely ...