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 ...

Walter Alder plays the hackbrett (hammered dulcimer), a typical folk music instrument of eastern Switzerland, in the traditional and modern style. Every Swiss citizen has a Heimatort, a place of ...