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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

... harp, woke dulcimer and flute,— Then prone in dust fell prince and peer, in lowly worship mute! The wise, the gifted, and the great, the lordly and the base Before the image bent the knee, and bowed in ...

— Poems of the Heart and Home • Mrs. J.C. Yule (Pamela S. Vining)

... piece of metal, wood, or bone. The psaltery or nebel (which was of course derived from the Egyptian nabla, just as the kinnor probably was in some mysterious manner derived from the Chinese kin) was a kind of dulcimer or zither, an oblong box with strings which were struck by small hammers. The timbrel corresponds to our modern tambourine. The schofar and keren were horns. The former was the well-known ram's horn which is still blown on the occasion ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... meditate the future lay, And watch impatient for the dawn of day. The morn rose clear, and shrill were heard the flute, The cornet, sackbut, dulcimer, and lute; To Babylon's gay streets the throng resort, Swarm thro' the gates, and fill the festive court. High on his throne Darius tower'd in pride, The fair Apame grac'd the Sovereign's side; And now she smil'd, and now with mimic frown Placed on her brow the Monarch's sacred crown. In transport ...

— Poems • Robert Southey

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