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 ...

Overall view of a fancy banjo, ca 1928. Made by Bacon & Day Co. of Groton, Connecticut for George Reams, a soloist, teacher and radio banjoist. It is a NePlus Ultra Model. From the collections of the ...

The dulcimer. That’s right. The wooden string instrument, played across the lap, which originated in the Appalachian Mountains in the 19th century. In a video now doing its rounds on the internet, the ...