An elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings

Usage examples of dulcimer.

There, no doubt, they tread on rugs from Teheran and are diverted by the bulbul and play upon the dulcimer and feed upon sweetmeats.

But the cimbalom was no meek and modest dulcimer, to be overwhelmed by the rest of the band.

One red-dressed woman had a dulcimer slung on her back, and Kelder brightened at this sighta minstrel, surely, the first he had ever seen.

Mikel faltered in his playing, the felt-tipped hammers striking any whichway on the dulcimer strings.

She lifted a little silver hammer and bonked her dulcimer a triple bonk of do-sol-do.

Stan in his office and we sat amid the plummy brocades of a room in the Dulcimer House hotel, booked in the name of Petros Corporation.

Some led small children by the hand, others followed with musical instruments: citharas, tabrets, timbrels, harps, dulcimers and cymbals.

There were many other rooms, all filled with lords and ladies, all with entertainers: three different gleemen in their cloaks, more jugglers and tumblers, and musicians playing flutes, bitterns, dulcimers, and lutes, plus five different sizes of fiddle, six kinds of horn, straight or curved or curled, and ten sizes of drum from tambour to kettle.

We are not angels, which have their dulcimers ever on the choral pitch.

But since what we're likely to get in the Anfract is a cartload of trouble, and that's about all, so far as I'm concerned Dulcimer can have fifteen percent of my share of that any time he likes.

Dulcimer agreed, but only if his share of whatever was recovered from the Anfract was increased to twelve percent.

Everybody plays something: the guitar, the banjo, the autoharp, the spoons, the dulcimer -- or the dulcimore, as they call it.

The three musicians had an amazing array of instruments, from archaic strung guitars and similar items she couldn't name, to electric and fiber-optic versions of the same, synths, glockenspiels, marimbas, electronic and acoustic drums and ethnic percussion and a dizzying collection of other gear including a hammer dulcimer.

Eric walked past a small covey of actors carrying their props, ungainly stuffed hobbyhorses embroidered in bright colors, then he saw Judy, struggling to carry her large hammer dulcimer.

Nona had won him with her special playing of her hammer dulcimer, before, and he had been loyal to her since.