The mountain dulcimer is a deceptively simple-looking instrument. Only about three feet long from tip to tip, with three strings and a neck full of frets, almost like a cross between a violin and ...

Jing ethnic group duxianqin (one-string dulcimer) player Su Chunfa. Provided to China Daily More than 15 years after the event, duxianqin (one-string dulcimer) player Su Chunfa still fondly recalls ...

Su Haizhen's students play duxianqin on the beach of Wanwei, an island in Dongxing, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Nov 18, 2021.[Photo provided by Huang Tianfu/For China Daily] Duxianqin, or one ...

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.

A musical instrument popular in the time of Alexander the Great and immortalised in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is close to disappearing, its only manufacturer has warned. The dulcimer - ...

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, ...

In true mountain style, Amburgey was related to “Uncle Ed” Thomas (1850-1933), credited with pioneering the Appalachian, or mountain, dulcimer with its heart-shaped sound holes and an hourglass form ...

First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Rochester is hosting a concert by a local mountain dulcimer group, the River Strings of St. Clair County. The 7 p.m. Friday, May 30 concert will ...

The community has been known as the homeplace of the mountain dulcimer ever since a revered maker, James Edward Thomas, known as Uncle Ed, pushed a cartload of angelic-sounding dulcimers up and down ...