BLACK MOUNTAIN - The humming and sawing of tools are among the only sounds heard as Tom Fellenbaum works in silence and solitude in his dimly lit studio. Saw dust floats in the air among stacks of ...

TAHLEQUAH -- Every year in May, the folks in Coshocton, Ohio, hold their "Dulcimer Days" celebration, dedicated to the stringed instrument best known for its use in Appalachian folk music. Strangely ...

CHIMNEY ROCK -- Ken Schoewe of Hendersonville saw a mountain dulcimer on the side of the road in Sylva some 14 years ago. The classical pianist was intrigued, and today, he is trying to share his love ...

yndi Lauper cradles one in photographs on her Web site. Aerosmith, known for hard rock songs and power ballads, incorporates one into its music. And, in the latest Martin Scorsese tale of urban unrest ...

A bunch of Yankees up here are making hillbilly musical instruments. Folkcraft Instruments produces dulcimers, laptop strummers with roots in Appalachia. The small shop tucked into a hillside off Main ...

WINTER HAVEN | When Janet Howard heard the hammered dulcimer for the first time about two years ago at a talent show, she knew she had to learn more. At first it sounded kind of like a piano, but as ...

Dulcimers have quite a following with folks from Southwest Ohio. Sweet strains of folk ballads, classical music — even swinging country and rock ‘n’ roll tunes — can be played on the four-string ...

MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...

It’s hard not to be charmed by the first image in Noelle Micarelli’s submission to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest: a miniature mountain dulcimer sitting on a truly tiny desk, beside a small porcelain ...

The two particulars separating “Rehab Reunion” from most every other record made by Bruce Hornsby is the unexpected absence of one sound and the dominance of another. What you don’t hear is piano, not ...