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The dulcimer is extremely easy to learn, Creager said. Players do not need to know how to read music or have experience with other instruments. “I started at age 50,” said Creager, now 68 and ...
Finally, we can get some satisfaction. The full story of Brian Jones’s stolen dulcimer can be told. Last month, I wrote about how on June 26, 1966, a unique dulcimer was taken from an equipment ...
Amanda Seyfried playing the dulcimer and singing Joni Mitchell on 'The Tonight Show.' - Credit: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Image.
David Schnaufer, 53, a session musician who recorded with Johnny Cash and Chet Atkins and is widely credited with restoring the popularity of the dulcimer, died Wednesday in Nashville after a long ...
GOSHEN, Ind. (WSBT) -- A dad and his unique instrument have gained worldwide fame on the internet. A Facebook live video of Ted Yoder playing the dulcimer has millions of views and shares.The ...
One of the lines Lapidus used to sell Mitchell the instrument was telling her, "You know, this is something that you could really get into because it's all opening tuning."Mitchell's experiments ...
The hammered dulcimer is the George Harrison of the musical world. It's a super cool instrument with a unique voice, but almost always overlooked in favor of almost every other, cooler instrument.
A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name.
A musical instrument popular in the time of Alexander the Great and immortalised in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is close to disappearing, its only manufacturer has warned. The dulcimer - ...
Amanda Seyfried was in Mamma Mia, so obviously she can sing, but it’s safe to say we at Stereogum were not familiar with her game. Seyfried was a guest on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show promoting ...
Fallon, of course, happened to have a dulcimer behind him, and he handed it to Seyfried to play. She launched into the opening notes and verse of California by Joni Mitchell, offering the audience ...