Dulcimer

Definitions

A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).

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Examples

“A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw⟳: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount⟳ Abora.”

“Accompanying himself with his dulcimer, a plectrum instrument of his own⟳ handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old.”

“Played traditionally, the dulcimer sounds delightful with drones acenting the melody you are playing.”

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