Ted Yoder of North Webster plays the dulcimer. He plays a staple of folk music invented centuries ago, but what Ted Yoder really hears is rock ’n’ roll. Now in the process of making a career out of a ...

Ted Yoder calls the hammered dulcimer "the love child of a drum set and a piano." "I get the best of both worlds," he said. Yoder will be in town Wednesday as part of the Up Close and Personal series, ...

The sounds of the season are beautifully struck as a wispy choral of notes float across the strings of Ted Yoder’s hammered dulcimer. “It just always felt like this was the instrument I was supposed ...

AURORA — Ted Yoder knows he’ll have some explaining to do. Any time someone asks him about his music, he knows he’ll have to start with the basics. Yoder, 37, plays a hammered dulcimer, an uncommon ...