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 ...

Actor and singer Amanda Seyfried has set a studio audience and its presenter – and now the internet – off by skilfully covering a Joni Mitchell song on the dulcimer. The dulcimer. That’s right. The ...

we began to focus on my left hand hitting the right frets to get chords for songs. "The thing that makes the dulcimer unique is, if you look at it, the frets are unequal," Samuels said.