One person there also plays the mountain dulcimer. A mountain dulcimer looks like an elongated, skinny guitar. It has frets like a guitar, but only three or four strings.

The Free Online Dictionary writes that a dulcimer, also called the Appalachian dulcimer and the mountain dulcimer, is, “A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four ...

The mountain dulcimer -- also known as the Appalachian dulcimer, the lap dulcimer, the Kentucky dulcimer, and the hog fiddle -- only has three strings, usually tuned to "fifths," which consist of ...

The mountain dulcimer is a traditional instrument native to the Appalachian mountain communities and dates back to the 19th century. It is used to play lots of old-time, mountain music and hymns.