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Guitar dulcimer: a hybrid of guitar and dulcimer, with the body more closely resembling a guitar, but the string configuration and pegs of a dulcimer. The stringing pattern on these instruments are frequently the reverse of the dulcimer, with low-pitched strings on the left and higher strings on the right, and they are usually held and played ...
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There, the word dulcimer, which was familiar from the King James Version of the Bible, was used to refer to a three or four stringed fretted instrument, generally played on the lap by strumming. Variants include: The original Appalachian dulcimer; Various twentieth century derivatives, including Banjo dulcimer, with banjo-like resonating membrane
Schnaufer was an award-winning dulcimer player and session musician. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, during the 1980s, and in 1995, accepted a position at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music, where he taught dulcimer as an associate adjunct professor. He established himself as one of the country's premier dulcimer players.
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Russell Cook is a hammered dulcimer builder and player from Oklahoma, United States. [1] Russell won first place in the 1981 Walnut Valley National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield, Kansas. Cook built his first dulcimer in 1979, and has gone on to build hammered dulcimers. He originally operated under the name Wood 'N Strings.
Jeff Buckley played a dulcimer in his song Dream Brother featured on his record Grace, released in 1994. Joe Perry recorded with a dulcimer on Aerosmith's Get a Grip album (1993). The group Little Big Town used the dulcimer on their second album, The Road to Here. Rob McMaken of Dromedary plays the dulcimer in gypsy styles.
Jim Couza (April 27, 1945 – August 2, 2009) [1] was an American hammered dulcimer player.. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, [2]. Couza was one of the early musicians at Tryworks Coffeehouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts.