That person Styles tracked down was Joellen Lapidus, the woman who sold Mitchell her first dulcimer — a long, stringed instrument that was once used by Tibetan monks as well as musicians ...

It's like a lap instrument,") she explained ... "California" from Joni Mitchell's 1971 masterpiece, Blue. Amanda Seyfried during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Season ...

He was instrumental in championing the work of iconoclastic composer and instrument maker Partch, whom Mitchell met in 1956 after enrolling at the University of Illinois, where he earned his ...

Actor and singer Amanda Seyfried has set a studio audience and its presenter – and now the internet – off by skilfully covering a Joni Mitchell song on the dulcimer. The dulcimer. That’s right. The ...

better known as Red Mitchell, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. Red was raised in New Jersey by a father who was an engineer and loved music, and a mother who loved ...

Mitchell started out on the trombone at age nine, move to tuba at ten, and discovered the piano at eleven. He continued his study of the lower brass instruments but focused primarily on piano. His ...