noun. A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four strings and a fretted fingerboard, typically held flat across the knees while sitting and played by plucking or strumming.

noun. The hammered dulcimer.

noun. A musical instrument consisting of a body shaped like a trapezium, over which are stretched a number of metallic strings, having a compass—sometimes diatonic, sometimes chromatic—of from 2 to 3 octaves.

noun. A kind of woman's bonnet.

noun. An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

noun. An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

noun. 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).

noun. a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers

noun. a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings

"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."

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cither  stringed instrument  zither  zithern  

accordion  bass viol  bittern  bouzouki  cittern