Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 1—LAPORTE — Laporte Elementary School students built one-stringed dulcimer instruments and performed at a recent assembly as ...

Lin Basinger never really held down a specific career. From instrument building to gunsmithing to jewelry making to falconry, ...

Expressions looks at one of the original American instruments--the mountain dulcimer The mountain dulcimer is a true American original and so is Bernd Krause, a luthier of over forty years who ...

When Jim Vander Woude was 15, he built a 12-foot sailboat with his stepdad and stitched the sail with help from his mom. He loved sailing in the handcrafted vessel so much, he "wore it out." After he ...

In the world of musical instruments, playing them is akin to advanced humming. Mountain dulcimers don't have a trumpet's flair or a flute's voice-above-the-crowd. Beethoven never even heard of them.

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 ...