A name like the Hammer Heads easily conjures up the image of a heavy metal group. But the only metal used here are the strings on a hammered dulcimer. This weekend, the Hammer Heads – part of the ...

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

Ted Yoder calls the hammered dulcimer "the love child of a drum set and a piano." "I get the best of both worlds," he said. Yoder will be in town Wednesday as part of the Up Close and Personal series, ...

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, ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Student-centered instruction, afternoon concerts and daily jam sessions are some of the reasons the Ozark Folk Center State Park’s Hammered Dulcimer Workshop attracts instrumentalists ...

You can learn to play it in a few minutes, but it takes much longer to master it. The dulcimer is a traditional Appalachian stringed instrument. One East Tennessee man became an award winning dulcimer ...