I believe that it was Howie Mitchell who FIRST brought the hammered dulcimer to ANY EVENT IN THE ENTIRE FOLK REVIVAL at one of the earlier Fox Hollow festivals. So the entry of that instrument onto the American music scene (or any other music scene)can be definitely pegged and pinpointed to that exact moment in time----just as the Appalachian dulcimer can be attributed to Jean Ritchie bringing that from her Kentucky mountains to New York! After that it was said to be "native" to Chicago and Nevada and Arizona----almost anywhere.

What say we on this? What year was it that Howie Mitchell brought the Hammered Dulcimer to everyones attention??

(The first one I ever saw was one being played by a blind man for passengers extra change in the bus station at Mexico City D.F.---1962 !)

Art Thieme