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 ...

“The hardest part for me probably is the frets and the spacing of the frets. There are easier ways to do the frets, but I don’t have that tooling,” he said. While some parts of the dulcimer are ...

The mountain dulcimer is a deceptively simple-looking instrument. Only about three feet long from tip to tip, with three strings and a neck full of frets, almost like a cross between a violin and ...