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2. Hammered dulcimer - Wikipedia

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   The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more traditional styles may sit cross-legged on the floor, or in a more modern style may stand or sit at a ...

3. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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   Chromatic hammered dulcimer with four legs 314.122-4: Hungary: tárogató [67] töröksíp, Schunda-tárogató, magyar zurna: Woodwind instrument commonly used in Hungarian folk music. There are two variants, the original tárogató, also called töröksíp, which is a reed aerophone instrument similar to zurna.

4. Salterio - Wikipedia

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   Paul Gifford and Karl-Heinz Schickhaus have researched the salterio in 18th century Italy; there are instruments with up to eight strings per course (i.e. 8 strings tuned to the same note and played all together, like a 12-string guitar or the middle and upper notes of a piano), made in places like Venice, Florence, Brescia, Milan, and Triente [citation needed], and signed by ten different makers.

5. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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   Bowed dulcimer (German) Bowed guitar (London) Bowed psaltery (United States) Byzaanchy (Tuva) Byzantine lyra (Greece) Calabrian Lira (Italy) Cello (Italian) Chagane (Azerbaijan) Chikara (India) Chiwang (Bhutan) Chrotta (Wales) Chuniri (Georgia) Cimboa (Cape Verde) Cizhonghu (China) Cornstalk fiddle (United States) Cretan lyra (Greece) Crwth ...

6. Russell Cook (musician) - Wikipedia

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   Russell Cook is a hammered dulcimer builder and player from Oklahoma, United States. [1] Russell won first place in the 1981 Walnut Valley National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield, Kansas. Cook built his first dulcimer in 1979, and has gone on to build hammered dulcimers. He originally operated under the name Wood 'N Strings.

7. Geoff Smith (British musician) - Wikipedia

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   Smith is considered to be one of the world's leading players of the hammered dulcimer. In performance, he plays three custom-built prototype dulcimers sequentially - diatonic, chromatic and a microtonal model featuring 'fluid tuning', i.e. such that individual notes may be tuned at (by) precise microtonal intervals.