dulcimer

IPA: dˈʌɫsɪmɝ

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).

Examples of "dulcimer" in Sentences

The dulcimer is a beautiful folk instrument that is one of the easiest to play.
Here is Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" played on a dulcimer, which is exactly how Lars intended it.
A Little About Dulcimers A dulcimer is a fretted instrument that most commonly includes three or four strings.
I played hammered dulcimer, which is a completely different instrument, on my first record, on the song "The Red Plains."
Once upon a time, I played a fairly decent version of "On the Banks of the Ohio" on my mountain dulcimer, which is pictured below.
The baby had not been christened yet, but Diamond, in reading his Bible, had come upon the word dulcimer, and thought it so pretty that ever after he called his sister Dulcimer!
Among the names of musical instruments in Daniel iii. 5 and 15, the sixth, generally but wrongly rendered "dulcimer," is thought by many scholars to signify a kind of bag-pipe (see commentaries on _Daniel_ and the theological encyc.).
No collecting of musical instruments here, although I have to say that I seriously contemplated learning the viola or mountain dulcimer for about a year ... and then remembered that my old piano teacher had gone grey trying to teach me rhythm.
(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.