Hammered dulcimer, huh? You probably mean white folks? This guy Tarun Bhattacharya kicks major ass:
He has a lot of CD's out, but the two I love are "Kirvani", a harmonic minor raga in D, and "Transcendence", Raga Kalavati in A mixolydian (major boogie scale).
khazana.com is a killer source for Indian music, way too many CD's - you have to filter or you'll go broke. The "father" of the Indian dulcimer is Shiv Kumar Sharma, he's played with McLaughlin on a few "Remember Shakti" CD's but not the best of them.
Do a YouTube search for "santur" and "santoor" and shit'll start popping everywhere. I
love the juicy incarnation of Remember Shakti, with that speedy guy U. Shrivinas playing the solidbody electric six-string mandolin:
Uh-oh, here's that song again!
"vicioustruth" has downloaded the entire Crossroads 2007 festival, including the good stuff from McLaughlin & Beck that didn't make the DVD. "bazonics" has a bunch of Shakti up, "La Danse Du Bonheur" from both Shakti (1977) and Remember Shakti (2000) are fucking
extraordinary. SugarMegs Streaming Server has three Shakti concerts up, "JohnMcLaughlin2000-10-15", "JohnMcLaughlin2001-07-06", and "JohnMcLaughlinAndShakti1977-04-10".