I don't know much about hammered dulcimers, but the mountain dulcimer is an easy instrument to learn. You can play tunes the very first time you pick it up, even if you can't read music.

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 ...

When Helen Bankston first heard the mountain dulcimer playing on the streets of Asheville, North Carolina, she couldn’t have imagined that she and four other Baton Rougeans would form a society ...

He said his wife gave him a dulcimer for his 65th birthday, and then he learned to play. He is taking guitar lessons now, but the most fascinating instrument in his musical holdings is a ban ...

Call to music He played guitar as a child; his aunt had a dulcimer and gave it to him to see if he could play it. “Aunt Margaret had one and said, ‘see if you can play it,’” Lambert said.

Back then he played brass, but he lost his front teeth playing touch football. It wasn’t until a couple of decades later that he first heard a dulcimer, at a festival in Mississippi.

Come find out, said Sue Creager of the Springfield Dulcimer Club. For decades the group has been gathering the first Thursday of the month from 3-5 p.m. to play, share musical tips, and often ...