MADISON, AL (WAFF) - Mention the dulcimer and many thoughts focus on Appalachia: mountain music. It's been in this area for generations. But Jon W. Harris discovered it, oddly enough, on the Jersey ...

Musicians at the Double Dulcimer Festival were playing two different versions of the folk instrument: the hammer type and the mountain version. What's the difference between the two? Jon W. Harris, ...

Jim Phillips has a passion for creating beautiful wood projects. He was born to Carl and Beatrice Phillips in Richlands, Virginia, in the heart of Appalachian coal country. His parents moved to the ...

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 ...

The Heritage Alliance is hosting a two-day dulcimer workshop, where attendees can build their very own cardboard dulcimer and learn to play.

SPENCERVILLE — Tom Shobe needed a hobby. Shobe, full-time pastor at Spencerville Nazarene Church for 12 years, felt he needed something to keep his mind and hands active. Shobe has instruments built ...

The Free Online Dictionary writes that a dulcimer, also called the Appalachian dulcimer and the mountain dulcimer, is, “A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The list of qualifications for playing the mountain dulcimer is extremely short. In fact, there are none. Absolutely anyone can play the instrument, which is also called the ...

SPENCERVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Tom Shobe needed a hobby. Shobe, full-time pastor at Spencerville Nazarene Church for 12 years, felt he needed something to keep his mind and hands active. Shobe has ...

As Benjamin Barker’s wooden hammers dance across the 125 strings of his dulcimer, classical melodies fill the sanctuary at St. George the Martyr Anglican Church in Simpsonville. At the same time, his ...