Playing a dulcimer falls in that category. Within minutes of sitting down for my lesson in Samuels' home, we were jamming to "Bile Them Cabbage Down," a tune based on an old English country ...

Of course, show business being show business, Fallon is able to produce an actual, mic’d up, headstock tuner-equipped mountain dulcimer from underneath his desk, which Seyfried uses to play ...

The dulcimer. That’s right. The wooden string instrument ... The audience roars with affirmation. Seyfried proceeds to warm up and tune the instrument. And then she proceeds to “play something for a ...