2.APMa small instrument with strings that is popular in Americanfolkmusic, and is played across your knees 杜西莫琴〔美国的一种民间乐器〕
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dulcimer• The thickness would suit a guitar but are unnecessarily heavy for a dulcimer less than half its width.• Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer.• And he had no idea what a dulcimer sounded like anyway.• Coleridge's inability to explain the dome leads him to try and carry the damsel with a dulcimer.• One of the KLEZmer special instruments was the hammered dulcimer, known as a TSIMbal.• Anderson shares the bill with Justina & Joyce, famed for their lushvocalharmoniesaccompanied by guitar and lapdulcimer.• A moderndulcimer is more like the lower one in the photograph, with a double first string.• The solodulcimerplayer, Eugene Gladkov, is clearly a virtuoso of the first order.
Origindulcimer
(1400-1500)Frenchdoulcemer, perhaps from Latindulce melos“sweet song”