The 12th annual Pocono Winter Dulcimer Festival will gather dulcimer players from all over the country for two days of workshops and a concert. The popular festival is the creation of Pocono residents ...

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 ...

Sam Edelston is a man on a mission. The Greenwich musician wants to make dulcimers as popular to the world as guitars, trumpets, pianos, harps, you name it. Dulcimers? ... Yes, dulcimers. Edelston ...

Dulcimers have quite a following with folks from Southwest Ohio. Sweet strains of folk ballads, classical music — even swinging country and rock ‘n’ roll tunes — can be played on the four-string ...

Nationally recognized musician Heidi Muller introduced more than 300 Wallowa County children and adults to the mountain dulcimer last week, spending time in classrooms and at an open house teaching ...

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 ...

Musicians rightfully get the credit for the music they create on their instruments. But what about the instruments themselves? Where do they come from? What makes them special? For three ...

I walked into the social hall of St. Thomas United Church of Christ, and there up front was a dreadlocked young man with a million-dollar smile. This was Bing Futch, award-winning musician, teacher, ...

The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum in Ferrum premiered an exhibition in 2011 that provided a sweeping history of the dulcimer across three centuries. That show, “The Virginia Dulcimer: 200 Years of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Appalachian dulcimer was made by ...