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 ...

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A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name.

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In “To the City,” Alexander Christie-Miller examines the modern lives of those who live alongside Istanbul’s ancient walls.