Finally, we can get some satisfaction. The full story of Brian Jones’s stolen dulcimer can be told. Last month, I wrote about how on June 26, 1966, a unique dulcimer was taken from an equipment ...

First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Rochester is hosting a concert by a local mountain dulcimer group, the River Strings of St. Clair County. The 7 p.m. Friday, May 30 concert ...

Dulcimer's future hangs by string. The dulcimer was once one of the world's most popular instruments. A musical instrument popular in the time of Alexander the Great and immortalised in Samuel Taylor ...

Some dulcimer players prefer the larger, 40+ string hammered dulcimer played with wooden, spoon-shaped mallets. “It all really fills out the sound. It makes it richer and fuller,” explained ...

Hammered dulcimers are heavy and rest on a stand. They have from 23 to 72 or more strings tuned to different pitches and are struck with wooden hammers, whereas the mountain dulcimer has 3 or 4 ...