Dulcimers have quite a following with folks from Southwest Ohio. Sweet strains of folk ballads, classical music — even swinging country and rock ‘n’ roll tunes — can be played on the four-string ...

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 ...

Newbies and old hands at dulcimer playing flocked to the Perkins building on the EKU campus Saturday for a dulcimer festival, celebrating all things dulcimer. The mountain dulcimer, for the ...

FREMONT - About a decade ago, a friend gave Pat Rife, of Clyde, a dulcimer as a gift. Today, that gift has overflowed into the lives of many others who have learned to play the instrument. For the ...

When Jim Vander Woude was 15, he built a 12-foot sailboat with his stepdad and stitched the sail with help from his mom. He loved sailing in the handcrafted vessel so much, he "wore it out." After he ...

Before setting out to tell a jaunty story about people who like to play the dulcimer, you could go on the Internet and read up on dulcimers and their Appalachian origins. You could even look on ...

Kara Barnard, at right, leads a Kara’s Silver Strings class at Mill Race Center, Columbus, Ind. Photo Provided Creative powerhouse and entrepreneur Kara Barnard doesn’t make a regular appearance at ...

Beginners will learn basic strumming and songs in a session scheduled from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Intermediate and advanced players will meet from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The workshop will include ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Ever since Rick Thum stumbled upon a dulcimer 21 years ago, the musical instrument has had a grip on him. "I saw a guy playing ...