To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

Green Bay Road, as their first official debut. A hammered dulcimer is a trapezoid-shaped zither consisting of metal strings that the musician hits with small hammers. According to the Smithsonian ...

The modern cimbalom, which is basically a jumbo hammered dulcimer, was created in 1874 ... notes can increase in pitch from right to left. Some strings even have three different notes each.

By day, Nate Pultorak is the Holy Cross Parish choir director and organist. By night, his baritone can be heard in the local band The Lowmen. In between, he gigs solo as the 2019 National Hammered ...

Ted Yoder calls the hammered dulcimer "the love child of a drum set ... spoon-shaped mallet hammer in each hand to strike the strings. Yoder, 51, grew up in a small town in Indiana.