Top Appalachian Dulcimer Sites

With angled pin blocks, inverted bridges, and all the other bells and whistles, these Folkcraft Legend hammered dulcimers really sing! Our Legend line of hammered dulcimers is available in either 16/15 or 17/16 stringing arrangements. Customize your instrument by choosing the exact woods to use, as well as more options! When people think of heirloom-quality instruments, they think of Folkcraft....

Handmade Mountain Dulcimers and their components for sale from Kentucky. THANK YOU for visiting my Web site! Tell your friends about my Dulcimers and Kits. Join the fun of many individuals who have started building and playing their very own. Contact me if you have any questions about my dulcimers or Web site. Interested in building your own dulcimer? Let me recommend the Jenny Wiley "ACKit"...

For players or lovers of hammered dulcimer (dulcimers), autoharp, harp, fiddle, or any acoustic instruments. Features Evart (Michigan) Funfest Dulcimer Festival and other music events. The price of admission will be $15 for the whole (3-day) event. If you can only make it one day, the cost price will be $7. Your admission fee covers membership in the ODPC, all programs, stage shows, and...

Robert Rawlins is assistant professor and coordinator of music theory at Rowan University in Glass-boro, New Jersey. He has published books and articles on various aspects of music theory and performance, including his regular contributions to the Bell. Igor Stravinsky was one of the most celebrated musicians of modern times. So when he walked onstage in 1923, at the height of his career, to...

The Appalachian mountain dulcimer is a true American instrument dating back to the early 1800s in southwestern Virginia. The Gardners invite you to visit them at their shop in Sutlers Row during their upcoming Civil War Reenactments and/or Music Festivals and judge the pleasing sound of this down-home instrument for yourself. Please click on the video below for an introduction to our dulcimers....

Dulcimer School is a great resource for those seeking valuable instruction in the art of dulcimer playing. From the beginner to the advanced, Dulcimer School will guide you through all of the essential techniques. For $19.97 a month, you get full access to all the mountain and hammered dulcimer content in the Dulcimer School library. We will be continually adding new content including video,...

Already a member and want to make changes to anything you've added to the site? Just log in and click the “View or Edit My Content/Information” link in the top right of each non-discussion page in the site. If you'd like a little help with this, here is a short tutorial: [pdf] [pptx]. How does EverythingDulcimer.com continue to be the leading place for great dulcimer information? Because of the...

Dulcimer Crossing brings easy hammered and mountain dulcimer lessons to people ONLINE with over 1,000 videos, flash animations, pdf documents, backup tracks and more. Enjoy online dulcimer lessons at your own pace, within the comfort of your own home. We have a new lesson at Dulcimer Crossing for our mountain dulcimer players. Kōjō no Tsuki is a Japanese composition taught by Neal Hellman in...

Dulcimer maker, dulcimer player, luthier, and musician Doug Berch,. I have been performing, teaching and making instruments since the mid 1970’s. During the 1980’s I toured throughout the United States and performed at many folk festivals, dulcimer festivals and concert venues. I recorded two records (Yes, records, the big round flat black vinyl things) for Kicking Mule Records. In 1983 I took...

Soothing, relaxing instrumental music composed and played by Appalachian Dulcimer player Jerry Rockwell, with some guitar and synth parts. This music is often trance-inducing and has strong celtic folk influences. What is the sound of paradise? It is of course impossible to get a precise answer to that question. But I think that Jerry Rockwell on his new album Tapping at the Edge of Paradise...

Welcome! Three Rivers Dulcimer Society (based in the Tri-Cities, Washington) first got together in March 2003. Our group continues to grow as people learn about us and hear us play. Folks in our group play mainly Appalachian mountain dulcimers, but we also have hammered dulcimers, mandolins, fiddles, guitars, penny whistles, bodhrans, flute, Irish harp, harmonica, cello and bass. We welcome all...

Welcome to the Mountain Dulcimer Players of Lancaster. And that's why a dulcimer can be so easy to play...as long as it's in tune...just play one string...and you make music....on a bagpipe with strings. The Mountain Dulcimer is also known as a Lap, Fretted, Traditional or Appalachian Dulcimer. It is one of a very few purely American instruments. A dulcimer has four (or three strings.) The bass...

Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club Dulcimer; playing in East Tennessee; Lap Dulcimers; Hammered Dulcimers. If you experience any problems or see corrections on this website, please contact. Dedicated to teaching, sharing, and enjoying the playing of Appalachian and. The Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club is an educational, non-profit organization. Classes are offered for the beginner to the advanced...

"Psychologically, we of today are poorly equipped to hear unaccompanied single-tone melodies, because we must instinctively and silently - and most often unconsciously - supply each heard tone with unsounded tones to support and accompany it.....Our brains, that is, hear any melody as if it were moving forward on the support of changing chords, or even as integers of such chords. In much of the...

A 26 minute instructional 2-camera video packed with everything you need to know to get started playing Mountain Dulcimer, taught in a relaxed style by Bradley Fish! Fish has released 3 CDs of musical loops for SONY and has a B.A. degree in guitar/world music. He's played dulcimer for the Dali Lama of Tibet in front of tens of thousands of people, shared the stage with a number of artists that...

The Appalachian dulcimer (or mountain dulcimer) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States. The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic. Although the Appalachian dulcimer first appeared in the early 19th century among Scots-Irish immigrant...

Richard is the owner of Folkcraft Instruments, which is one of the oldest and most respected musical instrument manufacturers in the country. Folkcraft makes a variety of stringed and fretted instruments, including Appalachian dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery, kantele, dulcilele, and ukulele. And finally, Richard is a performer. You can hear him playing the dulcimer at events all...