Image:Hammered dulcimer.JPG|thumb|right|Photo of a hammered dulcimer
English
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Etymology
From the Greek dulce melos (sweet sound).
Noun
en-noun
- musici 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).
#: The two classes of dulcimer are the "Mountain" or "Appalacian" dulcimer (plucked and played with a quill, usually a goose quill) and the hammer dulcimer (played by tapping on the strings with small "hammers"). See also: zither
Quotations
#* In a vision once I saw :
#* It was an Abyssinian maid,
#* And on her dulcimer she played,
#* Singing of Mount Abora. - w:Kubla Khan|Kubla Khan by w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Derived terms
dulcimerist
Translations
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Basque: tinpano
Bosnian: �imbala f
Bulgarian: �имбал (cimbal)
Catalan: dulcimer
Croatian: �imbala f
Czech: cÃmbal
Danish: hakkebræt
Dutch: hakkebord
Finnish: dulcimer
French: tympanon m
German: Cymbal n :de:Cymbal|^, Hackbrett n :de:Hackbrett|^
Hebrew: ���צ׳��ר (dultzimer)
Hungarian: cimbalom
Italian: dulcimero m; salterio m
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Norwegian: hakkebrett
Polish: cymba�y
Portuguese: saltério m
Russian: д�л��име� (dul�cimer) m, �имбал� (tsimbály) m|p
Serbian:
Spanish: salterio m; dulcémele m
Swedish: hackbräde, cymbal
Turkish: santur
Ukrainian: �имбали (cimbali)
Vietnamese: xim-ba-lum
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