Dulcimer used in a sentence

Dulcimer in a sentence as a noun

That brief flirting with the hammer dulcimer wasn't any better.

It's like the air guitarI think dulcimer would be a more appropriate analogy.

"I hit a plateau..." "I haven't picked up my dulcimer in several months"In my experience learning instruments follows a 90/10 sort of rule, you can get the easy stuff in a matter of weeks, the harder stuff is subject to severe diminishing returns.

Suppose I take the pill, go to the music classes, and end up an excellent mountain dulcimer player---and then find out that I accidentally overwrote my programming ability?