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 ...
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MOUNT DORA — From the mountain, or Appalachian, dulcimer to the steel drum, the sound is the thing at the 12th Annual Central Florida Dulcimer and Autoharp Festival Friday and Saturday. The event will ...
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, ...
A classically trained pianist who attended the renowned Juilliard School in New York, Rosamond Campbell admittedly once had a dismissive attitude toward folk and rock music. But in 1977, when ...
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 ...
The dulcimer-maker believes the folk and bluegrass instrument is making a comeback. His goal is to teach the younger generation how to make the instruments so that it doesn’t become a lost art. “I ...
The president of the Dulcimer Society of Trumbull County will be the next guest in the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society’s lecture series at 10 a.m. Oct. 17 at Kravitz’s Deli Meeting Room, ...
WOODBURN, Ind. (WANE) — In Woodburn, a music store tucked away between the local post office and a salon houses a unique instrument that cannot be found just anywhere: a dulcimer. Although the ...