dulcimer

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 .

As a noun 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).

As nouns the difference between dulcimer and autoharp

is that dulcimer is 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 autoharp is a string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers which mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord.

As a noun 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).

As an adjective dulcimerlike is

resembling or characteristic of a dulcimer.