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 ...

Jonesborough’s Dulcimer Week celebrates the role of the Appalachian mountain dulcimer in American life with seven days of dulcimer-infused performances, workshops and hands-on opportunities to ...

One of his dulcimers has a carved bear in the peg head — the beginning piece of the instrument. He used wood-burning techniques to make the hair for the bear, and included carved bear tracks for sound ...