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Mountain dulcimer

Also known as Appalachian

Mountain dulcimer: photograph by Sdkb
Photo: Sdkb, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Play a fretted lap zither: drone strings plus a melody string, fretted with a noter, strummed to fiddle tunes.

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Part of the living heritage of United States.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: North America.

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