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Dulcimer

noun

A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings.

A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers.

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"Dulcimer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ancient lyre, whose music is said to have produced such wonderful effects. This instrument was composed of an hollow frame, over which several strings were thrown, probably in some such manner as we see them in an harp, or a dulcimer. They did not so much resemble the viol, as the neck of that instrument gives it peculiar advantages, of which the Ancients seem to have been wholly ignorant. The Musician stood with a short bow in his right ...

— An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie

... grosse caisse to the tambourine. Nor were ancient instruments wanting. These were of quaint forms and diverse constructions. Mr. Graeme would descant for hours on an antique species of spinnet, which he procured from the East, and which he vehemently averred, was the veritable dulcimer. He would display with great gusto, his specimens of harps of Israel; whose deep-toned chorus, had perchance thrilled through the breast of more than one of Judea's dark-haired daughters. Greece, too, had her representatives, to remind the spectators that there had been an Orpheus. ...

— A Love Story • A Bushman

Words linked to "Dulcimer" : zither, zithern, cither, stringed instrument