origins and history of the dulcimer

... Origins and History of The Dulcimer The dulcimer is a member of the string family. It is furthercategorized into the Psaltrey family, a group of instruments that are comprised of stringsstretched ... across a frame and played by plucking or drumming. The onlydifference, in fact, between the dulcimer and the psaltrey is the fact that oneis plucked and the other is drummed. The dulcimer family ... Africa.Dulcimers gained popularity from the churches and cathedralsthroughout the 14thcentury. But in the 16th century, as the violin and windinstruments becameincreasingly fashionable, the dulcimer...

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... last by the form of the ear conch, the small size of the anti-tragus, and, as Dr. Dobson particularly points out, by the presence of two joints only in all the toes, as also by the number and character ... slightly fulvous; round the base of the ears and on the sides of the posterior half of the body bright fulvous; tail enclosed in the interfemoral membrane. SIZE.—Head and body, 2½ inches; tail, ... readily distinguished by the peculiar thickness of the lower half of the outer side of the ear-conch, which appears as it were excavated out of the thick integument of the neck; tragus short,...

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