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 Jan Risher a lesson.

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 ...

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 that if you pick it up and start playing with it ...