The actor learned how to play the instrument during the pandemic, and her rendition is uncannily like the original.

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 wooden string instrument, played across the lap, which originated in the Appalachian Mountains in the 19th century.