DEAR SUN SPOTS: Do you know of an antique store in our area that buys ... Last spring you published the name of someone who teaches dulcimer lessons. Could you print it again?

Long-time Reston resident Ralph Lee Smith, 91, is one of the nation's foremost players of the mountain ... in the dulcimer and music is that my parents were Pennsylvania antique dealers.

To most people, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument, according to the Smithsonian, though, today more people are picking up the instrument again. The mountain or plucked ...

The mountain dulcimer is a traditional instrument native to the Appalachian mountain communities and dates back to the 19th century. It is used to play lots of old-time, mountain music and hymns.