WINTER HAVEN | When Janet Howard heard the hammered dulcimer for the first time about two years ago at a talent show, she knew she had to learn more. At first it sounded kind of like a piano, but as ...

YORK, Neb. (AP) - There isn’t much Rod Matlock hasn’t dabbled in within the walls of his shop. From cabinets to an airplane, and now his most recent venture, dulcimers, Matlock is not afraid to dive ...

BLACK MOUNTAIN - The humming and sawing of tools are among the only sounds heard as Tom Fellenbaum works in silence and solitude in his dimly lit studio. Saw dust floats in the air among stacks of ...

A bunch of Yankees up here are making hillbilly musical instruments. Folkcraft Instruments produces dulcimers, laptop strummers with roots in Appalachia. The small shop tucked into a hillside off Main ...

Rick Thum in his booth at a folk music festival. Musician, luthier and businessman Rick Thum, who was named the most influential dulcimer player of the last decade by readers of Dulcimer Player News, ...