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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 ...

THE music of the hammered dulcimer is enchanting, said Peggy Carter, longtime music instructor, author and performer. "Playing the dulcimer has added so much to my life," she said. The hammered, or ...

Debby Roe probably didn’t realize that learning to play the dulcimer would draw her into a larger community of like-minded people. After Roe attended a dulcimer festival, her cousin, Joel Miller, ...