dulcimer

In his introduction Wolcott admits to “going soft” lately, to “becoming a more loving, caring, dulcimer-strumming individual.”

You'll hear a marimba and dulcimer every so often in this crescendoing collection of stellar four-part harmonies.

From the cartoon: the figure playing the dulcimer is underneath the manger, above which is seated the Virgin and Child.

An Italian dulcimer of wood carved and gilt, dating from the seventeenth century.