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  2. Dulcitar - Wikipedia

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    Luthier Homer Ledford coined the word dulcitar as a portmanteau of dulcimer and guitar, building his first model of the instrument around 1971. [1] One of Ledford's dulcitars was accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as displayed in a traveling exhibit on American craftsmanship. [2]

  3. Psaltery - Wikipedia

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    The psaltery of Ancient Greece was a harp-like stringed instrument.The word psaltery derives from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), "stringed instrument, psaltery, harp" [3] and that from the verb ψάλλω (psállō), "to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch" and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, "to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not ...

  4. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    On a majority of instruments, this places the notes from low to high pitch. Exceptions exist: Instruments using reentrant tuning (e.g., the charango) may have a high string before a low string. Instruments strung in the reverse direction (e.g. mountain dulcimer) will be noted with the highest sounding courses on the left and the lowest to the ...

  5. Appalachian dulcimer - Wikipedia

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    Note: Because the dulcimer is most often played on the lap or with the instrument lying on a table, when the instrument is held upright (headstock at the top), the highest pitched string will be on the left—this is the reverse of most other string instruments (e.g., guitar, bass, fiddle, etc.) where the lowest string is on the left.

  6. Cimbalom - Wikipedia

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    The modern Hungarian concert cimbalom was designed and created by V. Josef Schunda in 1874 in Budapest based on his modifications to existing folk dulcimers. [1] He demonstrated an early prototype with some improvements at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair, gaining praise from audiences and drawing the attention of highly-placed Hungarian politicians such as József Zichy, Gyula Andrássy, and King ...

  7. Guitar zither - Wikipedia

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    The guitar zither (also chord zither, fretless zither, [1] [2] mandolin zither [3] or harp zither [4]) is a musical instrument consisting of a sound-box with two sets of unstopped strings. One set of strings is tuned to the diatonic , chromatic , or partially chromatic scale and the other set is tuned to make the various chords in the principal ...

  8. Dulcimer - Wikipedia

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    There, the word dulcimer, which was familiar from the King James Version of the Bible, was used to refer to a three or four stringed fretted instrument, generally played on the lap by strumming. Variants include: The original Appalachian dulcimer; Various twentieth century derivatives, including Banjo dulcimer, with banjo-like resonating membrane

  9. TuxGuitar - Wikipedia

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    TuxGuitar is a free and open-source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. [3] In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function as basic MIDI editors.

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