Nearly 50 performers from across the United States gathered Sunday at Tamarack to perform in the eighth annual Bowed Psaltery Symphony. Many of the instruments bowed on stage were made right at ...

CLIFFTOP — Amid a sea of guitars, banjos and fiddles at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival at Camp Washington-Carver, Tamarack artist duo Greg and Tish Westman are selling a different kind of ...

(WBIR-Clinton) An instrument that was probably invented in the 1920s in Germany or Austria can be heard here in East Tennessee. The sweet sound of a bowed psaltery convinced Rick Long to learn to play ...

Greg and Tish Westman are luthiers based in Beckley, W. Va., who play traditional music on the bowed Psaltery, a stringed instrument kin to the dulcimer that comes in 9-, 25-, 32- and 37-note versions ...

The sound of a zither or a psaltery or a dulcimer – a wooden-bodied, finger-plucked or hand-hammered, fretless instrument, often held in the lap or manipulated near to the body – can provoke a bracing ...

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 ...