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 ...

Chester Englander is a big name in a small world: he is playing the cimbalom, a jumbo hammered dulcimer that resembles an ...

The 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly: An Instruction Manual by Julius Lester and Pete Seeger. New York: Oak Publications, 1965. Mitchell, Howard W. The Hammered Dulcimer. 3d ed. Sharon, CT: ...

"It looks a lot like the one I play," said Barbara Gibson, who plays both the mountain and hammered variations of the dulcimer. "Both instruments came from the Middle East with the Crusaders.

A master of the hammered dulcimer, he is also highly proficient on a variety of instruments, including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle and jaw harp. With a career spanning more ...