psaltery
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See Rotte (psaltery) for medieval harp psaltery & Ancient Greek harps for earlier psalterion
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It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Greek musical instruments, Ancient Hebrew musical instruments and Box zithers.
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Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Psaltery
- Instrument.image
- Chiesa di San Maurizio - Salterio - Scuola Veniziana - 1700.jpg
- Instrument.image_size
- 250px
- Instrument.alt
- Psaltery, built Venice in the 1700s
- Instrument.caption
- Psaltery 1700 – Venetian school
- Instrument.background
- plucked string
- Instrument.classification
- Chordophone
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 314.122
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Box zither. Chordophone with one or more strings stretched between fixed points, a board for a string bearer, parallel to the plane of the strings, with a resonator box
- Instrument.related
- Baltic psaltery Dan tranh Dulcimer Gayageum Gusli Guzheng Jetigen Kacapi Kanklės Kannel Kantele Kokle Koto Qanun Rotte Se Zither Yatga Jadagan
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Chiesa di San Maurizio - Salterio - Scuola Veniziana - 1700.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Psalteries
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 314.122
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Characteristics
- Medieval and Renaissance psalteries
- Modern psaltery
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
See Rotte (psaltery) for medieval harp psaltery & Ancient Greek harps for earlier psalterion
A psaltery (), or sawtry, an archaic form, is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer. Plucked keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord were also inspired by it. Its resonance box is usually trapezoidal, rectangular or in the form of a "pig's head" and often richly decorated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “psaltery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.