Cover of Dulcimer Players News Volume 48 Number 3 (August 2022).

Articles featured in Dulcimer Players News Vol. 48 No. 4 (Aug. 2022). These stories were originally published in the print version of the Dulcimer Players News magazine. They have been reformatted for publication online.

Backyard Music founder David Cross with the cardboard instrument kits the company has become so well known for. Photo courtesy of David Magnuson.

Make music in your own backyard

Aug 10, 20234 min read

Cardboard kit builder gets thousands of instruments to children By Ashley Ernst David Magnuson grew up in a home that didn’t have musical instruments.  “I’ve always been a music lover, a collector of records … but I never felt I…

Dulcimer virtuoso David Schnaufer with two Bonnie Carol dulcimers in front of an old building in Wall Street, Colorado. Photo by Bonnie Carol, late 1970s.

Dulcimers for David

Aug 10, 20235 min read

By Ashley Ernst The tradition continues through a program that gets instruments to children who want to learn to play mountain dulcimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKelXJlE1DA David Schnaufer, America’s Dulcimer Player, performing with Vince Farsetta at Poor David’s Pub in Dallas, Texas. October…