psaltery
Americannoun
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an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
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(initial capital letter) the Psalter.
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Etymology
Origin of psaltery
1300–50; Middle English sautrie < Middle French sauter(i)e < Late Latin psaltērium; see Psalter
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But the demand for psaltery players and country fiddlers was not exactly booming.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beers's grandfather taught him to play the psaltery, but his real ambition was to be a concert violinist.
From Time Magazine Archive
She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is akin to the biblical instrument called the psaltery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now it was Alexander of Cythera, according to the account given by Juba, who completed the psaltery with its full number of strings.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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