dul·ci·mer /ˈdʌlsəmɚ/
 一種以槌敲金屬弦而發出聲音的樂器


 Dul·ci·mer n.  Mus. (a) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer. (b) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. --Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

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 dulcimer
      n 1: a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an
           elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three
           strings
      2: a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with
         light hammers


 Dulcimer
    (Heb. sumphoniah), a musical instrument mentioned in Dan. 3:5,
    15, along with other instruments there named, as sounded before
    the golden image. It was not a Jewish instrument. In the margin
    of the Revised Version it is styled the "bag-pipe." Luther
    translated it "lute," and Grotius the "crooked trumpet." It is
    probable that it was introduced into Babylon by some Greek or
    Western-Asiatic musician. Some Rabbinical commentators render it
    by "organ," the well-known instrument composed of a series of
    pipes, others by "lyre." The most probable interpretation is
    that it was a bag-pipe similar to the zampagna of Southern
    Europe.