The Hammered Dulcimer Making a Hammer Dulcimer Although the art of hammer dulcimer playing once appeared to be dying, a revival of interest has been slowly spreading in recent years. People unfamiliar ...

BLACK MOUNTAIN - The humming and sawing of tools are among the only sounds heard as Tom Fellenbaum works in silence and solitude in his dimly lit studio. Saw dust floats in the air among stacks of ...

A bunch of Yankees up here are making hillbilly musical instruments. Folkcraft Instruments produces dulcimers, laptop strummers with roots in Appalachia. The small shop tucked into a hillside off Main ...

Rick Thum in his booth at a folk music festival. Musician, luthier and businessman Rick Thum, who was named the most influential dulcimer player of the last decade by readers of Dulcimer Player News, ...