hammered dulcimer
noun
variants
or hammer dulcimer
plural hammered dulcimers or hammer dulcimers
: a stringed instrument of trapezoidal shape played with light hammers held in the hands : dulcimer sense 1
The intense energy of the hammered dulcimer on the record's first side could be trance-inducing …—Mark Richardson
The piece that used the hammered dulcimer … was Lee Hyla's ''Amnesia Variance'' (1989) … in which the metallic pinging of the dulcimer's strings brightened up an ensemble sound …—Allan Kozinn
As an instrumentalist, he is a master of a dozen different traditional instruments, most notably the hammer dulcimer.—The St. Augustine (Florida) Record
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