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Dulcimer   /dˈəlsɪmər/   Listen
Dulcimer

noun
1.
A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings.
2.
A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers.





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"Dulcimer" Quotes from Famous Books



... playing a polka, and the ladies went into the ballroom; the old butler and two footmen brought wax candles and basins of water, and the old ladies began to tell fortunes. A troupe of mummers tumbled in, a bear performed tricks, a Little Russian dulcimer-player sang songs. ...
— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak
... a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, 40 Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, 45 I would build that dome in air, That ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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


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