The mountain dulcimer is a deceptively simple-looking instrument. Only about three feet long from tip to tip, with three strings and a neck full of frets, almost like a cross between a violin and ...

A musical instrument popular in the time of Alexander the Great and immortalised in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is close to disappearing, its only manufacturer has warned. The dulcimer - ...

Su Haizhen's students play duxianqin on the beach of Wanwei, an island in Dongxing, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Nov 18, 2021.[Photo provided by Huang Tianfu/For China Daily] Duxianqin, or one ...

Jing ethnic group duxianqin (one-string dulcimer) player Su Chunfa. Provided to China Daily More than 15 years after the event, duxianqin (one-string dulcimer) player Su Chunfa still fondly recalls ...

"The dulcimer," he said, "had just about died out." But it didn t, and for proof, you need only visit the Midland County Fairgrounds this weekend. Fifty years ago, says John Skayrd of Saginaw, "there ...

HINDMAN, KY. — The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known as ...