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Robert Force

musician and composer from the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ18518739 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Force (born in Snohomish, Washington) is a performer and composer on Appalachian dulcimer. He is also a producer, and the author of In Search of the Wild Dulcimer, Wild Dulcimer Songbook, and Pacific Rim Dulcimer Songbook.

Discography

As principal recording artist

Pacific Rim Dulcimer Project,

Crossover,

The Art of Dulcimer,

When the Moon Fell on California,

Manitou: In the Garden of the Gods,

Did You

As guest recording artist

Hellman: Dulcimer Duets,

Hellman: Dulcimer Aires, Ballads and Bears,

Einhorn: Whole World Round,

Stephens: Under the Porchlight

As producer

See also

List of Appalachian dulcimer players

External links

In Search of the Wild Dulcimer - free online version of the book on the author's site.

Robert Force - Personal website, includes a biography and instructional materials such as pages about individual songs with links to lyrics / music PDFs.

Kindred Gathering - The oldest dulcimer gathering in the U. S., started in 1975 by Robert Force and Albert d’Ossché.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Robert Force” as musician and composer from the United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Robert, Force and musician can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as musician and composer from the United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18518739. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Force” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.