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Dulcimer vs Qanun - What's the difference?

dulcimer | qanun |

As nouns the difference between dulcimer and qanun

is that dulcimer is (musical instruments) a stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal it's played on the lap or horizontally on a table some have their own legs these musical instruments are played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers) while qanun is .

dulcimer

English

(wikipedia dulcimer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (musical instruments) A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal. It's played on the lap or horizontally on a table. Some have their own legs. These musical instruments are played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
    • The two classes of dulcimer are the "Mountain" or "Appalachian" dulcimer (plucked and played with a quill, usually a goose quill) and the hammer dulcimer (played by tapping on the strings with small "hammers"). See also: zither
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1797 , year_published=1992 , publisher=Courier Dover Publications , author=(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) , title=The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems , chapter=(Kubla Khan) citation , isbn=9780486272665 , page=59 , passage=A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her ' dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year=1946 , author= , coauthors= , title=Album Reviews: The Seven Joys of Mary—John: Jacob Niles (Disc 732) , date=January 25, 1947 , volume=59 , issue=4 , page=32 , magazine=The Billboard , publisher=Nielsen Business Media , issn=0006-2510 citation , passage=Accompanying himself with his dulcimer , a plectrum instrument of his own handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , year_published= , publisher=Mel Bay Publications , author=Madeline MacNeil , title=You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer , section=Introduction citation , isbn=9780786639717 , page=4 , passage=Played traditionally, the dulcimer sounds delightful with drones acenting the melody you are playing.}}

    Derived terms

    * dulcimerist

    qanun

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 21, author=Daniel J. Wakin, title=Ensemble Ambitions in a World Divided, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=WISPS of mournful tunes from a cane flute mingled with the plucking, jangling arabesques of the zitherlike qanun , the oud and gentle drums. }} English words containing Q not followed by U