A Dulcimer by any other Name

If you’ve been reading The Stories any time at all, you know that my research often leaves me with more questions than answers and I’m always asking you readers to help me out.  So you can just imagine how excited I was to have a reader correct me on the origins of the dulcimer.

On December 18th I wrote that the Mountain Dulcimer was created in the Appalachians.  But one kind reader reminded me that the dulcimer is named in the Bible – in the Old Testament actually.  So that’s a long time before ...