THE HAMMERED DULCIMER
The hammered dulcimer is an ancient trapezoidal musical instrument played by striking the strings with wooden hammers.
Originating in the Middle East about 2000 years ago, English soldiers brought the instrument back to England after their failed attempt to conquer Persia during the Crusades about 1000 years ago. Dulcimers have many names in many lands: santur in the Middle East, yang q'in in China, hackbrett in Austria, zither in Germany, and cymbalom in Hungary. The name "dulcimer" is derived from Latin, meaning "sweet sound". Hammered dulcimers were popular in England during the reign of James I, when the Bible was translated into English as the King James Bible. The dulcimer was mentioned in the Book of Daniel 3:5 among other instruments "..the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick..." The dulcimer was later mechanized to become what we now know as the harpsichord which later evolved in the piano.
STICKY POST.
as every one know I lost a lot of stuff from this blog due to my own stupidity. I am currently trying to put together the the Ohio Blog Roll and The Recovery Blog Rolls. I need everyone's help in doing this,so if I had you listed on either one of these blog rolls,and I have not put you blog back on please let me know.
4 comments:
It worked! yayyyy
Mysti,thanks I just tried it myself as you were trying it as well.I finally did learn hot to do this.with many Thank's to Mary,over at Marys writing nook.
Mike,
You are welcome. Glad I could help. Please stop by my blog and take a copy of the award that I left to everyone on my blogroll. I just haven't got you added yet, but definitely plan to. Things have been a little crazy here.
Anytime I can lend you a helping hand, I will if I can.
Have a wonderful evening.
Mary
PS. Thanks for the link
Mary.Thank you for your help.
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