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 ...

Mitchell used the dulcimer on four tracks for her 1971 album, Blue. Joni Mitchell's 25 greatest songs, ranked Watch the highlights from Joni Mitchell's heartwarming Hollywood Bowl concert ...

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.

“She wrote a lot of the songs from the Blue album on the dulcimer, and I learned a lot of stuff from [that] album when the world stopped,” Seyfried said, before launching into a ...