Dulcimer

A dulcimer is a type of musical string instrument. It is a species of zither. Among its forms are:

The name, though perhaps not the design and sound, of the instrument is familiar to English-speaking readers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem (published 1816) Kubla Khan:

"A damsel with a dulcimer

In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora."

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