Appalachian Dulcimer Bibliography

• Alvey, R. Gerald. Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

• Hastings, S. E., Jr.”Construction Techniques in an old Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer.” Journal of American Folklore 83 (October-December 1970): 462-68. 

• Long, Lucy M. Plucked Dulcimer Finding Aid. (Washington, D.C.: Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, 1998).

• Long, Lucy M. The Negotiation of Tradition: Collectors, Community, and the Appalachian Dulcimer in Beech Mountain, North Carolina, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

• MacNeil, M. ed. Dulcimer Players News (Winchester, VA, 1975 –).

• Murphy, M. The Appalachian Dulcimer Book (St. Clairsville, OH, 1976).

• Putnam, John F. The Plucked Dulcimer and How to Play It. (Council of the Southern Mountains, 1961).

• Ritchie, Jean. Dulcimer People (New York: Oak Publications, 1975)

• Ritchie, Jean. The Dulcimer Book (New York, 1963).

• Seeger, Charles. "The Appalachian Dulcimer," Journal of American Folklore, lxxi, (1958), 40.

• Smith, L. A. "Toward a Reconstruction of the Development of the Appalachian Dulcimer: What the Instruments Suggest," Journal of American Folklore, xciii (1980), 385.

• Smith, L. A. A Catalogue of Pre-revival Appalachian Dulcimers (Columbia, MO, 1983).

• Smith, R. L. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions (Lanham, Md., 1997).

• Smith, R. L. The Story of the Dulcimer (Cosby, Tenn., 1986).