A group of students learn how to play the hammered dulcimer under the instruction of Chris Steiner at a church in Tipp City.

It’s hard not to be charmed by the first image in Noelle Micarelli’s submission to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest: a miniature mountain dulcimer sitting on a truly tiny desk, beside a small porcelain ...

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, ...

DANVILLE — Twenty-five years ago this past summer, a group of dulcimer enthusiasts met in the Danville house of one of their members to share their love of the stringed instrument. What originally ...

Wendy Grethen first touched the strings of a mountain dulcimer at a fair 27 years ago. She learned to play the Appalachian-region American folk instrument as a child in Illinois -- then stopped ...

Folk musicians Deidre McCalla from Atlanta and Kevin Roth from Point Loma will be sharing the stage in Poway’s Templars Hall on Friday night. McCalla is a Black, feminist singer/songwriter and ...