dulcimers

Buried among the 80-or-so players were a small group of cellos and a couple of basses, but there were erhus (two-stringed bowed instruments) instead of violins, plucked and strummed pipas and daruams to the conductor's right, two yanqins (hammered dulcimers) on center stage and, behind them, a whole phalanx of flutes, whistles and a brash, ear-splitting suona (a reed instrument with a brass bell).

China Anhui Traditional Orchestra offers variety, energy 2011

Wille said she would consider a Native American flute, as well as other harps, violins, dulcimers and guitars.

Harpist soothes what ails patients at Woodbridge hospital Sarah Lane 2010

We've compiled almost one hour of holiday music played on cigar box guitars, ukuleles, dulcimers and more.

Boing Boing 2009

I had always gone there and looked at guitars and hammer dulcimers and banjos.

Sea and Symphony 2011

"I had always gone there and looked at guitars and hammer dulcimers and banjos," she says.

What Makes the Emerald City Shine 2011

The musicians blocked shots with their dulcimers and slapped bolts out of the air with their gootars.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

There was some acoustic lesbian stinking up the joint with her homeless-people-with-dulcimers video and a guy named Ari Gold singing some weepy ballad and this bimbo who was at least funny, though not intentionally so it seems:

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010

The musicians blocked shots with their dulcimers and slapped bolts out of the air with their gootars.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

On tour in the UK: Geoff Smith on three hammered dulcimers, providing live accompaniment to Häxen: Witchcraft Through the Ages.

GreenCine Daily: Goings on. All over. 2007

In truth, sometimes women will fantasize about massaging dulcimers, as is their wont, and this is often mistaken for onanism.

Lap Dancing for Jesus on the SC Board of Education 2009