单词 | hammered dulcimer |
释义 | > as lemmashammered dulcimer a. A musical instrument, typically of trapezoidal shape, having strings of graduated lengths that are stretched over a sounding board or box and struck with hand-held hammers (now also hammered dulcimer). Formerly also: †an instrument of similar design but played by plucking with the fingers, like a psaltery (obsolete).The hammered dulcimer is sometimes considered to be the earliest prototype of the piano. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > dulcimer > [noun] dulcimer1509 pantaleon1757 hackbrett1807 kanoon1817 santoor1853 yang ch'in1876 cembalo1879 cimbalom1879 cymbalo1879 gigalira1889 string drum1940 1509 S. Hawes Pastyme of Pleasure (de Worde) xvi. sig. E.vii Cymphans, doussemers, wt clarycymbales gloryous. a1525 (?1474) Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 392 (MED) With mynstralcy of harpe and dowsemeris. ?c1525 (a1503) Receyt Ladie Kateryne (Coll. Arms M.13) (1990) iv. 67 All they fresshe appareld ladies and women of honour havyng like instrumentes of musike, as clavycordes, dusymers, clavysymballes, and such othir. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Plectrum, an instrument, wherwith menne played on the harpe or doulcymers, for hurtynge of their fyngers. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 23 May (1970) III. 90 Here among the Fidlers I first saw a Dulcimore played on, with sticks knocking of the strings, and is very pretty. 1738 T. Shaw Trav. in Brab & Levant iii. iii. 271 In the Fashion of our Dulcimer, with Brass strings. 1753 J. Poulter Discoveries 42 in J. Coleman Hist. Cant & Slang Dicts. (2004) I. 172 I strum and patter; I play on the Dulsimore and sing. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 57 It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. 1872 F. E. Bunnett tr. A. Woltmann Holbein & his Time 277 As a friendly companion he [sc. Death] leads the poor old man to his grave strumming a tune to him on the dulcimer. 1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 45 The dulcimer became a genuine string-instrument constructed without a neck. 1916 B. Labord in D. G. Mason Art of Music VIII. ii. 59 The psaltery..has been described as a dulcimer played with the fingers or a plectrum instead of by hammers. 1922 Double Dealer Oct. 172/1 A man is not wise because he can hammer a dulcimer or whistle a tune. 1979 W. F. Roush et al. Hist. Roush (Raush) & Allied Familes in Amer. IV. viii. 394 He is a ‘fiddle’ player, playing the old traditional tunes the old time fiddlers played. He also plays the hammered dulcimer. 2010 Canberra Times (Nexis) 7 Jan. a4 Gillian Alcock has been commissioned to build a hammered dulcimer for permanent exhibition at the new Musical Instrument Museum in the United States. < as lemmas |
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