(Ordinarily, 5 mm "zither pins" are used, similar to, but smaller in diameter than piano tuning pins, which come in various sizes ranging upwards from "1/0" or 7 mm.) A hammered dulcimer, like an autoharp, harp, or piano, requires a tuning wrench for tuning, since the dulcimer's strings are wound around tuning pins with square heads. As with a piano, the purpose of using multiple strings per course is to make the instrument louder, although as the courses are rarely in perfect unison, a chorus effect usually results like a mandolin. Each set of strings is tuned in unison and is called a course. The strings of a hammered dulcimer are usually found in pairs, two strings for each note (though some instruments have three or four strings per note). A 15/14, for example, has 15 strings crossing the treble bridge and 14 crossing the bass bridge, and can span three octaves. The dulcimer comes in various sizes, identified by the number of strings that cross each of the bridges. In the usual construction, playing them on the left side gives a note a fifth higher than playing them on the right of the bridge. The treble strings can be played on either side of the treble bridge.
The bass bridge holds up bass strings, which are played to the left of the bridge. Strings and tuning Major scale pattern on a diatonic hammered dulcimer tuned in 5ths An early version of the hammered dulcimer accompanied by lute, tambourine and bagpipe The Salzburger hackbrett, a chromatic versionĪ dulcimer usually has two bridges, a bass bridge near the right and a treble bridge on the left side. The instrument is also played in the United Kingdom (Wales, East Anglia, Northumbria), and the United States, where its traditional use in folk music saw a revival in the late 20th century. Hammered dulcimers and other similar instruments are traditionally played in Iraq, India, Iran, Southwest Asia, China, Korea, and parts of Southeast Asia, Central Europe (Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland (particularly Appenzell), Austria and Bavaria), the Balkans, Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Belarus), and Scandinavia.
The dulcimer, in which the strings are beaten with small hammers, originated from the psaltery, in which the strings are plucked. The Graeco-Roman word dulcimer ("sweet song") derives from the Latin dulcis (sweet) and the Greek melos (song). The player holds a small spoon-shaped mallet hammer in each hand to strike the strings. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more traditional styles may sit cross-legged on the floor, or in a more modern style may stand or sit at a wooden support with legs. The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion- stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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