When Helen Bankston first heard the mountain dulcimer playing on the streets of Asheville, North Carolina, she couldn’t have imagined that she and four other Baton Rougeans would form a society ...
MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...
Wendy Grethen first touched the strings of a mountain dulcimer at a fair 27 years ago. She learned to play the Appalachian-region American folk instrument as a child in Illinois -- then stopped ...
On Sept. 2 at the Camp Street Cafe and Store, the society joined by a Texas state champ and several national dulcimer champions, celebrated its 10th anniversary. "The whole group started playing music ...
Some things are worth holding on to. There are treasures to keep. Take, for example, a dulcimer. It was made around 1983 at a woodshop at Navarre School. The original owner was found and friendships ...