dulcimer

In his introduction Wolcott admits to “going soft” lately, to “becoming a more loving, caring, dulcimer-strumming individual.”

You'll hear a marimba and dulcimer every so often in this crescendoing collection of stellar four-part harmonies.

From the cartoon: the figure playing the dulcimer is underneath the manger, above which is seated the Virgin and Child.

An Italian dulcimer of wood carved and gilt, dating from the seventeenth century.

Koto, a kind of dulcimer, from Japan, with silken strings and movable bridges.

Yang-kin, Chinese dulcimer, with two little sticks or wooden hammers of a rather peculiar shape.

He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head.