Trapezoid is an American folk music group led by Paul Reisler.
Founded in 1975 by Sam Rizzetta and Reisler, they began as a quartet of hammer dulcimer players.
Since 1975, the group's membership and instrumentation has changed repeatedly, always with Paul Reisler as a member.
[2] Their sound has been described as a "plinking and plunking, buzzing, sweeping, ringing, droning, and wailing acoustic construction"[3] and as "a delightful musical melange" by the New York Times.
[4] In 2004 and 2005, the 1984 lineup that recorded Winter Solstice with John McCutcheon - minus fiddler Freyda Epstein, who was killed in 2003 in a car accident[5][6] - reunited with McCutcheon to perform acoustic concerts, called the Winter Solstice tour.