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  • Hand-made music: Waynesville woman hopes to pass on dulcimer-making craft

    Hand-made music: Waynesville woman hopes to pass on dulcimer-making craft Molly McCurdy is rare. Specifically, she is one of a small number of female luthiers in the U.S. A dulcimer is a three- or four-stringed instrument that gained popularity in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1800s and is linked to the region’s Scot-Irish heritage. It is played like a guitar or banjo but laid across one’s lap. The body…

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