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The Hammered Dulcimer A Selected Bibliography of Hammered and Plucked Dulcimers and Related Instruments

Boone, Hubert. "De Hommel in de Lage Landen." Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments Bulletin 5 (1975): 9-153. Bryan, Charles Faulkner. "The Hammered Dulcimer." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 18 ...
Hartford Courant

DULCIMER HAS YANKEE TWANG

A bunch of Yankees up here are making hillbilly musical instruments. Folkcraft Instruments produces dulcimers, laptop strummers with roots in Appalachia. The small shop tucked into a hillside off Main ...
al.com

Dulcimer musician styles vary

Musicians at the Double Dulcimer Festival were playing two different versions of the folk instrument: the hammer type and the mountain version. What's the difference between the two? Jon W. Harris, ...
Post and Courier

National hammered dulcimer champion calls Greenville home

As Benjamin Barker’s wooden hammers dance across the 125 strings of his dulcimer, classical melodies fill the sanctuary at St. George the Martyr Anglican Church in Simpsonville. At the same time, his ...
Texarkana Gazette

Dulcimer chorus an active, growing group in the area

The hammer dulcimer made a favorable impression as guests sipped their wine and walked among the display booths of the recent third annual Avinger Wine Festival. Amy Lyons of Marietta played the ...
Connecticut Post

Greenwich musician wants to put dulcimers on the map

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 ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Find out about dulcimers, an ‘antidote to today’s obsession with a screen,’ at Saturday’s festival

The string instrument sounds like the child of a harp and guitar and seems to help listeners travel back to medieval times. Back in 1700s to mid-1800s, the dulcimer allowed young lovers to play duets ...
Pocono Record

Dulcimer club keeps old-time instrument alive

Bob Mallalieu listened to the radio as he drove through Virginia about 10 years ago and heard an instrument that was new to him. He savored the sweet sound that filled his car. It wasn't until he ...
Orlando Sentinel

‘Sweet, easy’ acoustic sounds will fill the air at Dulcimer and Autoharp Festival

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, ...
Sun Journal

Hammered dulcimer performance planned for Oasis of Music

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Hammered dulcimer player Keith Prairie will perform at the Oasis of Music ...