dulcimer
A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually…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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Meaning
1 sensesA 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).
Zimbal, Hackbrett
дульцимерdulʹcimer, цимба́лыcimbály
цимбалиcymbaly
- a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
- a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
Examples
5 sentencesAre you sure you want to sell your dulcimer?
I can't play the dulcimer as well as I used to.
I'm the one who taught Tom how to play the dulcimer.
The sound is quite similar to that of a dulcimer, psaltery, or zither.
deDer Klang ist dem von Dulcimer, Psalter oder Zither recht ähnlich.
Meet Mike Clemmer, an Appalachian dulcimer maker, and listen to the sweet sounds of the classic instruments he makes.
Translations
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Origin
From Old French doulcemelle, probably from Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from AncientFrom Old French doulcemelle, probably from Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “melody, song”).
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