Hammered dulcimers and mountain dulcimers are both members of the zither family of stringed instruments, but they are quite different. The hammered dulcimer is a European-born ancestor of the piano, a ...

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.

Maylee Samuels has been playing the dulcimer for 30 years, and in advance of a local dulcimer St. Patrick's Day-themed workshop set for March 14, she offered me a lesson. "It's one of those things ...