How to Use dulcimer in a Sentence

dulcimer

noun

• Here’s the mallet that makes her guitar chime like a dulcimer.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
• Roth came to the dulcimer as a kid, after playing piano.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• Maybe that’s why so many were composed on the three-string dulcimer: a nice, portable axe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
• The dance will feature a dulcimer and fiddle music by the Scantlin' Reunion band and Dona Benkert will call.
  — Joy Davis, Aurora Beacon-News, 6 July 2017
• In trying to be part of the culture there, Schellhammer purchased a mountain dulcimer and learned to play it.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 17 July 2019
• People sang for her and played fiddles and dulcimers; one boy used knitting needles on the neck of his banjo.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Lauper also played the dulcimer throughout the acoustic duet.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Artists will instruct senior citizens in playing the dulcimer in a multi-day workshop.
  — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 1 June 2017
• Moore found himself in Naselroad's wood shop nearly every day learning how to craft guitars from Appalachian native hardwoods in a town where the mountain dulcimer was first made in the late 1800s.
  — Amy Chillag, CNN, 18 Sep. 2020
• The Girl with the Flaxen Hair between themselves, vocalist Alexander scraped a baby-blue hair pick along the strings of a dulcimer (a type of zither) and all three clacked hair straighteners and threw curlers at each other, among other actions.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2020
• There’s bluegrass music, bell-ringing, rail-splitting, and dulcimer-making, but the highlight is seeing (and hearing) 100-pound iron anvils jettisoned into the air by exploding gunpowder.
  — National Geographic, 1 July 2019
• The first of two sessions begins at 1 p.m. with mountain dulcimer instruction, followed by hammered dulcimer instruction at 3 p.m. Instruments will be on hand for individuals who do not have their own.
  — Joy Davis, Aurora Beacon-News, 19 Apr. 2018
• And music lovers of all skill levels will gather in dozens of cities for single-instrument jam sessions for everything from accordions, cellos and dulcimers to harmonica, ukuleles, violins and voices.
  — Harriet Baskas, NBC News, 2 June 2017
• Music instructors at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage teach instruments from clawhammer banjo to mountain dulcimer, as well as leading bluegrass jams and a community chorus.
  — Jason W. Lloren, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The pair perform on instruments ranging from guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, and mandolin to tin whistle, harmonica, and limberjacks, and surprise audiences with their interpretation of freestyle Appalachian clog dancing.
  — Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024