| LC control no. | sh 85039933 |
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| LC classification | ML1041 History MT717 Instruction |
| Topical heading | Dulcimer |
| Variant(s) | Dulcimer, Hammer Dulcimer, Hammered Hammer dulcimer Hammered dulcimer Salterio |
| See also | Zither |
| Found in | New Harvard dict. of music (dulcimer: a zither sounded by striking rather than plucking) New Grove dict. of musical instruments (dulcimer: name applied to certain instruments of the box zither type with more than one string but without a keyboard) Grove music online, Aug. 2, 2006 (the player may hit the strings with hammers or pluck them with the fingers or a plectrum; many scholars reserve the term "dulcimer" for an instrument played with hammers, calling it a "psaltry" when the plucking technique is used: in the USA, where the hammer technique is normal, the term "hammer dulcimer" or "hammered dulcimer" has been coined to avoid confusion with the "Appalachian" or "mountain" dulcimer) Mexikanische Salteriomusik, c2005: p. 2 (salterio; salterio chico has 90 strings in groups of 3; salterio grande has 103 strings in groups of 3 and 4) New Grove dict. of musical instruments, Apr. 5, 2007 (salterio = Psaltery, dulcimer) |
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