Kathy Gunderson had a question for her fellow dulcimer players: "Got your seat belts on?" With a few adjustments to their "seat belts" — their term for the instrument straps — they launched into a set ...

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 ...

William D. Kuhlman wasn’t born with a pair of dulcimer hammers in hand. And his wife of seven decades — Jane E. Kuhlman — can remember when the stringed trapezoid that sings under his touch was a ...

Four years ago, I had never heard of a dulcimer, which is a musical instrument. Now, it seems like everyone plays it, including me. Just recently, I was in the library and ran into a co-worker.

Jeanne Lubey plays her mountain dulcimer during practice with the High Desert Dulcimers on Tuesday at LaFarge Branch Library. Lubey picked up the dulcimer, a strummed or fingerpicked fretted ...

CENTERVILLE - These people do not need electronic equipment or expensive acoustics to make toe-tapping, knee-slapping music. There are no iPods, iPads, stereos or amplifiers here. It's just a circle ...