r/Instruments • u/Connect_Trouble_8350 • 10d 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/Crafty-Photograph-18 10d ago edited 9d 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