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Dulcimer   Listen
noun
Dulcimer  n.  (Mus.)
(a)
An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.
(b)
An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.






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"Dulcimer" Quotes from Famous Books



... first fruits of the liberality which had here not yet spent itself. There were a girl harpist with repulsive, staring eyes; an old invalid with a wooden leg, who, on a dreadful, evidently home-made instrument, half dulcimer, half barrel-organ, was endeavoring by means of analogy to arouse the pity of the public for his painful injury; a lame, deformed boy, forming with his violin one single, indistinguishable mass, was playing endless waltzes with ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke



Words linked to "Dulcimer" :   stringed instrument, zither



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