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Stringed instrument
Psaltery
Psaltery 1700 – Venetian school
plucked string
Classification
Chordophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
314.122 (Box zither. Chordophone with one or more strings stretched between fixed
points, a board for a string bearer, parallel to the plane of the strings, with a resonator box)
Related instruments
Baltic psaltery
Dan tranh
Dulcimer
Gayageum
Gusli
Guzheng
Jetigen
Kacapi
Kanklės
Kannel
Kantele
Kokle
Koto
Qanun
Se
Zither
Yatga
Jadagan
A psaltery (Greek: ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer. Plucked keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord were also inspired by it. Its resonance box is usually trapezoidal, rectangular or in the form of a "pig's head" and often richly decorated.
A psaltery (Greek: ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither...
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with strings ‘stopped by a set rods instead of the player’s fingers); and Psaltery, a type of zither played by plucking or ‘striking’ the strings, which frequently...
have played related box-zither type instruments (the so-called Baltic psaltery) in the south east vicinity of the Baltic Sea for centuries. In the United...
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stringed musical instrument, the name of which is synonymous with the psaltery Psalterium (neuroanatomy), a structure in the commissure of fornix Psalterium...
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Minstrels"), three gigatores (rebec players) from Germany, two players of the psaltery, and one each of the citole and gittern. 1309 – Marchetto da Padova begins...
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