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 ...

A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name.

David Gilmour had a bumper 2024, releasing Luck and Strange, his first solo album in nine years, and globe-trotting in ...

dulcimer and zither. My qanun consists of a trapezoid-shaped hollow sound box made of walnut wood, and 78 strings (26 sets of 3). The holes in the sound box are finely decorated with carved ...

hammered dulcimer, lute, guitar, and vocals – and anything else with strings attached. Emerging from the Riot Grrrl & queer folk music scene, Izzy’s approach to instrumentation and composition ...