Popular street minstrel doesn't pull strings

First Street has long attracted those who march to a different tune.

Now add Rick Fogel to the list.

He’s a popular waterfront musician, who fancies hard rock — when it comes to sculpting, that is.

His taste in music is much more classical. Actually more Old World than old school.

Fogel, among other pursuits, is one of the country’s few crafters of “Bones,” a simply yet delightfully rhythmic instrument dating to antiquity.

Locally, though, he is perhaps best known for his mastery of the hammered dulcimer, a percussion icon of Appalachia, whose unique sound Fogel has helped resonate with...