This book describes the recovery of the Appalachian dulcimer's lost
history, tracing the dulcimer's roots in a German instrument, the
scheitholt; describing the early history of the scheitholt and the
dulcimer in America, and outlining the development of distinctive
dulcimer styles in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and
Kentucky. This fully revised and expanded edition provides additional
information about the instrument's history before the Civil War and
discusses traditions and types that are still being discovered and
documented.