- 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...
- 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...
- word
dulcimer originally referred to a
trapezoidal zither similar to a
psaltery whose many
strings are
struck by
handheld "hammers".
Variants of this instrument...
-
stringed instruments. Historically, it
could be any
instrument of the
psaltery family. In
modern terminology, it is more
specifically an
instrument consisting...
- organ, an
instrument that is far
older than the harpsichord. Moreover, the
psaltery was a
widely used
instrument of the
Middle Ages. Like the
later harpsichord...
- Crotala, Floghera, Gaida, Harp, Laouto, Lyre, Organo, Pan flute, Phorminx,
Psaltery, Salpinx, Santouri, Souravli, Tambouras, Tambourine, Trigono, Tsampouna...
- Lyre Pan
flute (Syrinx)
Pandura Phorminx Rhoptron Sambuca Salpinx Sistrum Psaltery Tambourine Trigonon Water organ (Hydraulis)
Roman art, 4th
century A.D...
