dulcimer

The term dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments.

==Hammered dulcimers== The word dulcimer originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of this instrument are found in many cultures, including: Hammered dulcimer (England, Scotland, United States) Hackbrett (southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Tsymbaly (Ukraine), tsimbl (Ashkenazi Jewish), țambal (Romania) and cimbalom (Hungary) may refer to either a relatively small folk instrument or a larger classical instrument ("cimbál" in the Czech Republic). The santouri (Greece) (called "santur" in the Ottoman Empire) is almost identical to the Jewish and Romanian folk instruments. Santur (Iran and Iraq) Santoor (northern India and Pakistan) is constructed and tuned differently from the santur of Iran and Iraq Khim (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand) Yangqin (China), Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam), yanggeum (Korea)