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Hammered dulcimer
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The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-string instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in
A musician playing a diatonic hammered dulcimer
A musician playing a diatonic hammered dulcimer
An angel playing a dulcimer and pipe in the c. 1490 fresco Assumption of Mary by Filippino Lippi at Santa Maria sopra Minerva
An angel playing a dulcimer and pipe in the c. 1490 fresco Assumption of Mary by Filippino Lippi at Santa Maria sopra Minerva
The Salzburger hackbrett, a chromatic version
The Salzburger hackbrett, a chromatic version
Tuning of a hammered dulcimer (southeastern Slovenia)
Tuning of a hammered dulcimer (southeastern Slovenia)
Psaltery
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A psaltery, or sawtry, an archaic form, is a fretboard-less box zither and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer. Plucked keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord were also inspir
Hammered dulcimer
…the Latin dulcis ('sweet') and the Greek melos (μέλος, 'song'). The dulcimer, in which the strings are beaten with small hammers, originated from the psaltery, in which the strings are plucked. Hammered dulcimers and other similar instruments are traditionally played in Iraq, India, Iran, Southwest Asia…
Psaltery 1700 – Venetian school
Psaltery 1700 – Venetian school
A woman playing a triangular harp, which was called by "Jewish, Christian and Greek sources" a psalterion. Ancient Greek red-figured pelike from Anzi,
A woman playing a triangular harp, which was called by "Jewish, Christian and Greek sources" a psalterion. Ancient Greek red-figured pelike from Anzi, Apulia, circa 320–310 BC.
Triangular psaltery or rotte. Not a harp, as the sound-box blocks the viewer from seeing through the instrument; also it has sound holes.
Triangular psaltery or rotte. Not a harp, as the sound-box blocks the viewer from seeing through the instrument; also it has sound holes.
Resembling a harp, this was identified as a psaltery. Print detailed enough to show bridges on the instrument's bottom and strings running in courses.
Resembling a harp, this was identified as a psaltery. Print detailed enough to show bridges on the instrument's bottom and strings running in courses.