What is Dulcimer?

and Dulcimer is a Member of the Zither Family, What Includes Autoharps, The Chinese Qin, SE , and zhen , the Japanese koto and Wagon Trani and dan bau , Alpine Zither and ticked Zithers. The name Dulcimer comes from the words dulce Melos, , which means a sweet sound. Like other Zithers boxing box, Dulcimer has strings, but no keyboard. Even if he does not have sleepers, he may or may not have a bridge.

Some people distinguish bikes as they play with hammers and sued as a jerking, but others believe that you can tear your pilots and the hammer sued. Sometimes this tool is called a hammer or hammer Dulcimer, which helps it distinguish it from another tool called Appalachian Dulcimer, which has different shapes and including sleepers. Their heads can be hard or soft and shafts, rigid or pliable. Cane, wood, bamboo, plastic and metal in different locations are used on the shaft and the head can be covered with cottonou, felt, wood, leather or velvet. Some players experimented with double head hammers to play more playgrounds with one hand. The chains are often made of piano wire. Many people choose bikes that are tuned to a large scale, but are pads with full chromatic scale.

Dulcimer found a place in family entertainment as an accompaniment to the singer, dance music, including square dance, folk music, church music and popular music. If August Rush was set up in England during depression, it could be a pad rather than a guitar, that would be the main tool because it was popular with Street Buskers at that time.

There is a atyp of a large Hungarian dulcimer employed at concerts and called cimbalom . It is a chromatic tool with a damper pedal and differs from a small portable Hungarian Dulcimer. Cimbbalom was written by Igor Stravinsky, Carl Orffand Pierre Boulez. Well -known players include Alex Eppler, Viktória Herncsár, Junko Sakimura and Kalman Balogh.