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Definition of Dulcimer
1. Noun. A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings.
2. Noun. A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers.
Definition of Dulcimer
1. n. An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.
Definition of Dulcimer
1. Noun. (musical instruments) A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal. It's played on the lap or horizontally on a table. Some have their own legs. These musical instruments are played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers). ¹
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Definition of Dulcimer
1. a stringed instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dulcimer
Literary usage of Dulcimer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old English Instruments of Music: Their History and Character by Francis William Galpin (1911)
"IN the Psaltery and dulcimer we have yet a third type of mediaeval stringed
instruments sounded without the use of a bow. The characteristic feature is that ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on lier dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1879)
"Pantaleon Hebenstreit of Eisleben, a distinguished violin-player, became about
1697 a virtuoso upon the dulcimer, which he quadrupled in dimensions and had ..."
4. Eastern arts and antiquities mentioned in the sacred Scriptures (1840)
"For this cause some writers conclude that the dulcimer was the bagpipe; and the
known ... Other instruments have been offered as the dulcimer of Scripture, ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"dulcimer, an ancient musical instrument, resembling, if not identical with, ...
The modern dulcimer consists of a small box, in shape a triangle or a ..."
6. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"Pantaleon Hebenstreit of Eisleben, a distinguished violin -player, became about
1697 a virtuoso upon the dulcimer, which he quadrupled in dimensions and had ..."
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