WANTAGE -- Her hands hovered over the mass of strings, thumbs and wrists working closely to flip the decorative wooden hammers onto the strings. As Donna Traylor played, Merle Tanis was making similar ...

The mountain dulcimer is a deceptively simple-looking instrument. Only about three feet long from tip to tip, with three strings and a neck full of frets, almost like a cross between a violin and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 18—AIKEN — Her local options were highly limited 20 years ago, so Vicki Gibboney picked up a pair of hammers — small ones — ...

Singin’ Strings dulcimer group: Singin’ Strings is a group of dulcimer players meeting to work on their skills and share music. All levels of dulcimer players are welcome to join in. The group ...

Paul Babcock considers himself lazy. That might explain why the Long Beach resident still isn’t proficient in playing the dulcimer, despite being introduced to the instrument nearly six years ago.

Members of the Silver Strings Dulcimer Society filled the springtime air with the sweet sounds of a chorus of hammered dulcimers in front of Michigan’s Capitol on Tuesday. The society, based in Garden ...

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 ...

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 will ...