Listen. Hear that? It’s “In the Sweet By and By,” performed on the Appalachian mountain dulcimer. The musicians, members of Madison Dulcimers, harmonize together on Kentucky’s state instrument, ...

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 things ...

Debby Roe probably didn’t realize that learning to play the dulcimer would draw her into a larger community of like-minded people. After Roe attended a dulcimer festival, her cousin, Joel Miller, ...

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 ...