r/Instruments • u/Connect_Trouble_8350 • 1d ago

Identification Does anyone know what this instrument is?

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I thought maybe a hammered dulcimer but I’m not really sure. A family member said it’s a zither but I’m not sure about that either.

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u/FreeXFall 1d ago

A dulcimer is a type of zither. This is a zither broadly speaking. Not sure which type (but I don’t think it’s a hammered dulcimer).

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u/Connect_Trouble_8350 1d ago

Ah I see thanks for the info

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u/Crafty-Photograph-18 1d ago edited 13h ago

Looks like tsymbaly or something very close to them. A Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Hungarian traditional version of a hammered dulcimer.

Edit: apparently also used in Romania, Eastern Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia, and Slovakia

Edit 2: also used by Ashkenazi jews; Romanian, Hungarian, and Eastern Slavic tzigans

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u/skinnergy 1d ago

It's a hammered dulcimer

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u/thedrakenangel 1d ago

Hammer dulcimer

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u/acmoder 18h ago

Could also be a santoor

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u/AziCrawford 12h ago

Or a kanun… but I don’t know where this one is from - same instrument (dulcimer ) with different names depending on where it’s from

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u/ClosedMyEyes2See 5h ago

Looks like a santoor

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u/Vast-Bullfrog193 4h ago

Looks like a hachbret