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- A psaltery (Gr****: ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither...
- bowed psaltery is a type of psaltery or zither that is pla**** with a bow. In contrast with the centuries-old plucked psaltery, the bowed psaltery appears...
- Baltic psaltery is a family of related plucked box zithers, psalteries, historically found in the southeast vicinity of the Baltic Sea and pla**** by the...
- triangular psaltery with about 10 strings, held like a harp in front of the musician. The playing position was different in that other psalteries might be...
- Solomon Psaltery, an obsessively jealous man, murders his wife Maisie, believing her to be unfaithful, as portra**** in Ot****o. Although Psaltery survives...
- word dulcimer originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of this instrument...
- instrument, possibly a Gr**** harp mentioned in Athenaeus (183 AD), probably a psaltery. The epigonion was invented, or at least introduced into Greece, by Epigonus...
- Crotala, Floghera, Gaida, Harp, Laouto, Lyre, Organo, Pan flute, Phorminx, Psaltery, Salpinx, Santouri, Souravli, Tambouras, Tambourine, Trigono, Tsampouna...
- zither: the hammered dulcimer or psaltery. 'Salterio' / 'saltério' is used in Italian and Spanish where both 'psaltery' and 'dulcimer' are used in Spanish...
- (Lawrence/Yetties) "The Marrow" (Oakley) "Lord of the Dance" (Carter)g "Beau Psaltery" (Trad. Arr. The Yetties) "The Farming Contractor" (Trad. Arr. The Yetties)...