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.
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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.
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Good Morning Mike,
Thought I would drop by and have a cup of coffee with you this morning. I have been up all night and I'm fixing to go lay down for a while here in a bit. I put up a new post this morning and gave an update on hubby. I am going to try and get back into the swing of things now that hubby will be going back to work later today. It may take me a while, but I can do it. I will have to check out that blog later on. I am just out visiting a few before I do go back to bed. Nice picture of you below and you should have smiled for the camera. I hate having my picture taken. Take care my friend and have a great day. May GOD Bless You and Yours.
Hugs,
Karen H.
Wow! Those are some huge controllers.
I remember the old Nintendo very well. Me and hub used to play for hours and try to beat each others score on Mario. And I LOVED Tetris!! Altho he could never come close to beating me on that. ;)
Karen. Thank you for stopping by and having a cup with me. Hugs.Now go and get some rest.
Crystalchick,yeh those are big ones all right,it amazes me that they work.
Interesting sites Mike... it's good to share too!
Hope you are ok.
Daffy, I'm glad that you enjoyed the sites. I doing Ok.
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