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What’s 2,000 years old, shaped like a trapezoid, equipped with strings, two hammers, four legs and blessed with a bell-like sound? A hammer dulcimer, right? Everyone knows that, at least everyone who ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Here in the Piedmont the dulcimer is a common instrument, but the hammered dulcimer is a little different. It’s the one producing sweeter sounds, at least when one of Roy’s Folks ...

Ted Yoder calls the hammered dulcimer "the love child of a drum set and a piano." "I get the best of both worlds," he said. Yoder will be in town Wednesday as part of the Up Close and Personal series, ...

I always say, jokingly, but very seriously, I am a successful musician because I am, first of all, a businessman." ...

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, ...

When records manager Don Gillette retired from the Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at the end of 2022, he did not stop playing his beloved hammer dulcimer. Gillette proved pivotal ...