(WBIR-Gatlinburg) It's a musical instrument with a sound you'll never forget. The sweet music of the mountain dulcimer. It takes a steady hand and an artist's eye to create the musical instrument.

LINCOLNTON, N.C. — Lincolnton resident Frank Brown likes knowing he can take a piece of wood that would have otherwise been cut up or used to build a barn, he said, and turn it into an object that ...

The 12th annual Pocono Winter Dulcimer Festival will gather dulcimer players from all over the country for two days of workshops and a concert. The popular festival is the creation of Pocono residents ...

The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum in Ferrum premiered an exhibition in 2011 that provided a sweeping history of the dulcimer across three centuries. That show, “The Virginia Dulcimer: 200 Years of ...

The Free Online Dictionary writes that a dulcimer, also called the Appalachian dulcimer and the mountain dulcimer, is, “A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four ...

WOODBURN, Ind. (WANE) — In Woodburn, a music store tucked away between the local post office and a salon houses a unique instrument that cannot be found just anywhere: a dulcimer. Although the ...

Kathy Gunderson had a question for her fellow dulcimer players: "Got your seat belts on?" With a few adjustments to their "seat belts" — their term for the instrument straps — they launched into a set ...

LOGAN — Bing Futch knows it’s not every day folks see a mountain dulcimer — or hear one. This stringed instrument of his has a very distinctive sound, almost a bit hypnotic, Futch says. It certainly ...

When at age 80 he began to play the dulcimer, he had trouble holding the pick. Sometimes as he strummed, the pick would drop into the “strum hole” of the dulcimer or fly out onto the floor, he said, ...