Strings are the thing: Woodside's Vicki Gibboney focuses on the hammered dulcimer

Her local options were highly limited 20 years ago, so Vicki Gibboney picked up a pair of hammers — small ones — and went to work creating a new page in Aiken's music scene. The ...
The Advocate

Learning to play the dulcimer can lead to more than making music: Jan Risher

Maylee Samuels has been playing the dulcimer for 30 years, and in advance of a local dulcimer St. Patrick's Day-themed workshop set for March 14, she offered me a lesson. "It's one of those things ...
Dayton Daily News

Never too old to learn the Dulcimer: Club invites folks from all over, of all ages, to learn instrument

Dulcimers have quite a following with folks from Southwest Ohio. Sweet strains of folk ballads, classical music — even swinging country and rock ‘n’ roll tunes — can be played on the four-string ...
The Ledger

Dulcimer group making music in the park

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 ...
Texarkana Gazette

Dulcimer chorus an active, growing group in the area

The hammer dulcimer made a favorable impression as guests sipped their wine and walked among the display booths of the recent third annual Avinger Wine Festival. Amy Lyons of Marietta played the ...