psaltery

noun

An ancient stringed instrument played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.

noun

The term is loosely applied to a variety of stringed instruments, some of them lyres or harps, rather than zithers.

noun

A musical instrument of the zither group, having several or many strings variously tuned, which are sounded by the finger with or without the aid of a plectrum.

noun

Same as psalter.

noun

A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.

noun

An ancient musical instrument, similar to a dulcimer or a zither, and played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.

noun

an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings